The final of the 2014 SET for BRITAIN event is set to take place during National Science and Engineering Week.

And on Monday 17 March 2014, six early career researchers from The University of Manchester will take their research to Parliament:

  • David Jimenez Cruz – School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering
  • Mary Aprahamian – School of Mathematics
  • Maria Thorpe – School of Mathematics
  • Francis Watson – School of Mathematics
  • Sarah Fox – Faculty of Life Sciences
  • Antonios Oikonomou – School of Chemistry

All of the exhibitors are entered into competition with researchers from their discipline – be it biology, chemistry, engineering, maths or physics – for a bronze (£1,000), silver (£2,000) and gold (£3,000) prize and certificate. At the end of the exhibition, the gold winner from each discipline will explain their research to a panel of judges to convince them that their research, and their ability to convey it, leaves them deserving the over-arching Westminster Medal.

The overall aim of SET for BRITAIN is to encourage, support and promote Britain’s early-stage and early-career research scientists, engineers, technologists and mathematicians who are the “engine-room” of continued progress in and development of UK research and R&D, and ultimately of UK plc.

The SET for Britain final event is organised by the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee joined together with the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics and the Society of Biology and sponsored by Andrew Miller MP.

For updates during the day, follow @SET4Brit on Twitter or the hashtag #SciParl.