Dr Sarah Rogers

ISIS-RAL
Chair of the Joint Colloids Group

Sarah Rogers

Colloid and interface science covers a broad range of both fundamental and applied areas including surfactants and polymers, biological interfaces and bio-colloids, nanoparticles (for a range of applications), formulation science, self-assembled systems, and ‘smart’ materials.

In 2002 the Joint Colloids Group (JCG) was formed by the joining of the CSCG (SCI) and the CISG (RSC) with the aim to provide a more coherent focus for the UK colloid and interface science community, both in academia and industry. The Group welcomes anyone with an interest anything colloidal!

The JCG runs various scientific events, from one-day meetings to a triennial multi-day international conference (UK Colloids, since 2011). We also support bursaries for attendance at UK and worldwide meetings through the Rideal Trust. We administer several awards: the Katharine Burr Blodgett Award, the McBain Medal, the Thomas Graham Lecture and the Rideal Lecture, which recognise researchers through the different stages of their career.

As chair I aim to work and engage with our community, increase connectivity between our current members, and help shape what we want our community to be looking forwards. If you feel a topic that’s not being covered by our current programme of work, please let us know. Your support, input and suggestions are highly appreciated, whether as a speaker, delegate or sponsor, an established scientist, a PhD student or an early career researcher.

If you are interested in becoming involved, please contact me or any member of the committee. We all look forward to meeting you at our events.

NEWSFLASH!
The McBain Award for 2024 has an extended deadline for nominations of 31st December 2023.

Please submit nominations using the below link:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/MQ3CKS2

Or contact the awards committee member, Craig Fairgreave.

For more information on the awards, please see link.

McBain Award 2023, Birmingham, 25th January 2024

The recipient of this year’s McBain Medal is Prof. Jason Zhang from the University of Birmingham. An event to celebrate Jason’s achievements and present him with the McBain Medal will be held on the 25th of January 2024 at the Exchange, Birmingham.

Rideal Award 2023, London, 24th April 2024

The recipient of this year’s Rideal Award  is Dr. Andrew Howe from AQDOT . An event to celebrate Andrew’s achievements, ending with the Rideal lecture, will be held on the 24th of April 2024 at the SCI, London.

New News Letter!

Please find the new Winter/Spring 2023 Joint Colloids group news letter at this link.

News Letter Content: Welcome from the new chair, Sarah Rogers.

Up and coming events: McBain Award, 25th January, Birmingham; Rideal Award, 24th April, London.

Sir Eric Rideal Travel Bursaries

The Sir Eric Rideal Travel Bursaries are a joint bursary between the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Chemical Industry. It provides funds for attendance at a conference in the field of colloid and surface science.

Sir Eric Rideal (1890–1974) was the founding Chair of the RSC Colloid and Interface Science Group.

The Rideal Trust annually offers financial assistance to promising academic research workers in the general field of colloid and surface science to attend conferences and/or to visit relevant research institutions.

Awards of up to £500 will be made on a competitive basis to assist with travel and/or subsistence and/or conference registration fees.

There are two closing dates for applications each year:

  • 15 April (for travel planned between 1 June and 31 December)
  • 15 October (for travel planned between 1 December and 30 June).

Please see the Rideal Bursary page on the SCI’s website for specifics.

Membership

You can become a member by joining one of the two groups:

SCI Colloid & Surface Chemistry Group (CSCG).  http://www.soci.org/Membership-and-Networks/Technical-Groups/Colloid-and-Surface-Chemistry-Group

RSC Colloid & Interface Science Group (CISG). http://www.rsc.org/membership/networking/InterestGroups/colloidscience/

The former is open to SCI members only. The latter is open both to RSC members and associates AND to scientists and engineers who belong, either, to a chartered professional or learned body from outside the chemical sciences, or to another chemical society with whom the RSC has entered into an international partnership agreement approved by RSC Council. Non-RSC members of CISG pay RSC a small annual fee to cover administration and postage.

For information on how to become a member of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) or Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) please see the links below:

http://www.soci.org/Membership-and-Networks http://www.rsc.org/Membership/join/admission/index.asp 

Non-members of RSC wishing to join CISG should contact the RSC Membership Dept. (contact details at http://www.rsc.org/Membership/join/admission/Contacts.asp), asking to join the Colloid & Interface Science Interest Group, only, and mentioning their own affiliation.  The membership administration fee is £10 currently. In case of difficulty please contact a member of the Joint Committee.

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