Neutron Scattering Group
BTM Willis Prize 2026 - Winner: Dr Lewis Owen
Don McKenzie Paul Thesis Prize 2025 - Winner: Dr. Jennifer Nadine Graham
We would like to make you aware of an Open Letter concerning recent STFC proritisation announcements and their potential impact on Multidisciplinary Facilities including ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Diamond and Central LASER Facility. If you are able to do so, we would be very grateful if you could sign the letter and share it with your wider network.
If you have any further suggestions, please do get in touch. Thank you for your time and support.
You can find full details of STFC proritisation announcements here.
The future of UK neutron science - Read the STFC review (2024) in full.
The associate partners of the ILL (UK, France and Germany) have agreed to assure ILL operation till at least 2033.
For further information see the Latest News on ILL Website.
We are proud to have played a small part in bringing this about and thank UK neutron community and our committee for your continuous support.
The Neutron Scattering Group is a group jointly hosted by Institute of Physics (IOP) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) to promote neutron science actively with its UK user community. Our aims are to:
- Organise events to develop UK neutron user links and discuss results from neutron experiments
- Provide links to and from UK-funded neutron sources and the European Neutron Scattering Association
- Represent neutron scattering and its UK users within the IOP and RSC learned societies
- Support actively early career researchers in the UK to engage with neutron scattering
Our mission is to support and develop the UK neutron community in a rapidly changing global neutron landscape, and to represent UK neutron scattering externally. Additionally, we award the BTM Willis Prize, Don McKenzie Paul Thesis Prize and the Thomas-Penfold Poster Prize annually. Examples of activities include organising and contributing to conferences and schools involving neutron scattering research, e.g. the Faraday Joint Interest Group Conferences in 2017, 2021 and 2023, the biennial Oxford School on Neutron Scattering and early career researcher meetings in 2020, 2022 and 2025, MDANSE School in 2022 and 2026.