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The School of Physics and Astronomy has an international reputation for high-quality research across a wide range of research areas. The School currently has over 52 permanent members of academic staff, 50 postdoctoral research assistants/officers and over 40 support staff.

The school attracts a high level of funding from the research councils for engineering and physical sciences, medical, biotechnology and biological sciences, particle physics and astronomy, as well as from the Royal Society, the EU, The Wellcome Trust and industry.

The school has an excellent track record in the training of postgraduate scientists, and offers courses that combine research projects with supporting training modules. We aim to provide a solid basis to enable our postgraduates to excel in their subsequent careers.

We offer MRes, MSc by Research, MPhil and PhD programmes which focus on major research projects supplemented by taught courses designed to broaden scientific knowledge and provide relevant IT, presentational and other transferable skills.

We have a vibrant community of more than 120 PhD students in the school and have an excellent record of obtaining fully funded studentships to enable outstanding students from across the world to carry out postgraduate studies in the school.


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Key Facts

  • The results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), announced by HEFCE, placed Nottingham’s School of Physics and Astronomy joint 2nd with Cambridge and St Andrews in a ranking of 42 Physics departments. In the assessment, 95% of the School’s research was judged to be of “international quality”, while 25% was categorised as “world-leading”; a percentage value that was achieved by just four Physics departments.

  • The school has an international research reputation, with a large portfolio of research contracts from EPSRC, STFC, MRC, BBSRC, the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society, the EU and industry.
  • Research in the school is organised within the general areas of: Astronomy, Condensed Matter Theory, Experimental Condensed Matter and Nanoscience, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy, Particle Theory and Ultracold Atoms
General research enquiries

Wendy Brennan
School of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD



t: +44 (0)115 951 5163

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