Our Mission
Our mission is to develop highly skilled physics graduates from the universities of Hull, Leeds, Nottingham, Sheffield and York who will support the innovation and growth of technical industries.
Our mission is to develop highly skilled physics graduates from the universities of Hull, Leeds, Nottingham, Sheffield and York who will support the innovation and growth of technical industries.
We lead career-focussed programmes as part of our university courses and we are working to develop skills-based curriculum.
We set up industry-sponsored undergraduate research projects and help students apply for placements and graduate roles.
We engage with companies to help them carry out innovative research and development, recruit talented graduates, and raise their profile.
Physics-based enterprise directly generates around 10% of regional GVA (equivalent to £20bn in 2013) and indirectly contributes to another 15%.
The universities of Hull, Leeds, Nottingham, Sheffield and York are consistently ranked within the top 400 universities in the world for physics.
Across our five partner universities, three-quarters of respondents to student surveys want to find graduate-level work in the local area.
When surveyed, over 80% of our students stated that they were unaware of graduate-level roles in their local region. More generally, physics students are unaware of the sectors in which they can use their degree, and fewer than a third of graduates find work in a physics-based industry.
Within our region, up to 90% of highly skilled technical roles are provided by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). These businesses often do not have the resources to develop graduate programmes and to make themselves known to highly skilled early-career scientists.