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*** The closing date for this opportunity has been extended. The previous deadline of 1 April has been extended to 20 April 2018. All other call details remain unchanged. ***

The Institute of Physics’ Structural Condensed Matter Physics group, in collaboration with the Physical Crystallography group, invites nominations for the PANalytical thesis prize in crystallography. This recognises the best use of techniques or methods in physical crystallography in a successfully examined thesis submitted between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2017. Methods and techniques are interpreted in a broad fashion, for example, to include x-ray and neutron diffraction or scattering, Rietveld analysis and structure refinement, total scattering, structure-property relationships, development of structure-solution techniques, crystallography under non-ambient conditions, use of complementary techniques to diffraction, computational crystallography and modelling, electron diffraction, diffuse scattering, and applications of physical crystallography in biology.

Candidates must be members of the Structural Condensed Matter Group of the IoP or the Physical Crystallography Group of the British Crystallographic Association. Non-members may enter the competition but will be required to join the groups at the student rate to progress their nomination further.

In addition to a monetary prize of £500, the winner will be invited to give the PANalytical thesis prize lecture at a group meeting.

The EPSRC Manufacturing the Future challenge theme invites investigator-led proposals which address key research challenges facing manufacturing in the UK today. In an effort to increase the theme's long term ambition to increase the number of investigator led research, the theme will issue a series of batching dates during 2018 and 2019 for investigator-led proposals. Submitted proposals will either be considered at a manufacturing-focused prioritisation panel (if there is sufficient demand) or via a separate list at an Engineering panel.

The next batching date will be 20 April 2018 with a manufacturing panel to be held in August 2018 (if there is sufficient demand).

Proposals submitted after these dates, or those that do not have sufficient reviews in time for the panel, will be assessed by the most appropriate panel at a later date.

The Manufacturing the Future theme has prioritised funding to support investigator-led research projects in manufacturing, with up to £3.2 million available (dependent on demand and quality of proposals).

New Investigator Awards as well as standard research proposals are invited. To maintain continuity during the two stage process, fellowship proposals will continue to be assessed at the most appropriate capability theme panel. All proposals will be assessed in accordance with standard EPSRC procedure.