News of funding for an EPSRC Funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Diamond Science and technology was featured on BBC Midlands Today:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-25552919

The University of Warwick leads a partnership of 8 universities and close to 30 companies to create anew Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Diamond Science and Technology. The training programme includes modules on all aspects of DST (e.g. synthesis, material science, modelling, characterisation, engineering, device integration and material processing, photonics, quantum, entrepreneurship etc.) in addition to transferable skills. Studentships (September 2014 start) are available fields as diverse as quantum computing and electrochemistry.

Robin Cruddace, formerly of the Warwick Diamond Group, is now a games developer at Games Workshop, which manufactures miniatures and miniature-based war games. Robin was the feature of the “Once a physicist” series in the November 2013 edition of Physics World. For the article click here.

In an interview published in Physics World (June 2013), Stephanie Liggins, former member of the Warwick Diamond Group, described how her PhD research on defects within the structure of diamonds led her to a career in industrial product development with Element Six Ltd. See http://www.iop.org/careers/working-life/articles/page_60277.html and click here for interview.

Ben Green won the prize for the best talk by a young researcher at 2013 Diamond Conference. The paper (The N3 centre revisited) was chosen by a panel of industrial research scientists and won out against stiff competition. Ben has subsequently defended his PhD Thesis (external examiner Prof. Bob Jones, Exeter) and joined Element Six in June 2013 as a Research Scientist.

The 2013 JEOL Student Prize Lecture competition at the RSC ESR Group Annual International Meeting was won by Christopher Hartland with a presentation on “EPR studies on oxygen doped CVD diamond.” The thumbnail image shows Dr Peter Meadows of JEOL (UK) Ltd presenting Chris with the JEOL Medal.