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New Year Post - Welcome to the Community: Royce at the University of Sheffield

Happy New Year from Royce at the University of Sheffield

Welcome to 2026 and our first official post from the team. Our ambition is to bring together the advance materials community.

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Professor Alice Pyne has received the 2026 BBS Louise Johnson Early Career Award

Professor Pyne has been recognised for her outstanding contributions to the field of biophysics and will present an invited lecture on her work at the 2026 British Biophysical Society (BBS) Biennial meeting in Glasgow.
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Advanced Tribology and Wear Research at The University of Sheffield Using NanoMEGAS

The Sorby Centre for Electron Microscopy, School of Chemical Materials and Biological Engineering, The University of Sheffield
3d Printing - Acconity Mini

Finding out about Additive Manufacturing

Integral to our role here at Royce is outreach. This week we welcomed Lila on a work experience placement to the RDC. She's been investigating a couple of facilities and this is what she's observed in Additive Manufacturing with Dr. George Maddison.
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Royce Student Summer Internship to Inspire the Next Generation of Materials Scientists

Meet the students from The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University taking part in the Royce Undergraduate Research Internship Scheme to experience materials science research.

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University of Sheffield academics recognised as UK’s most talented early career researchers

Dr Alice Pyne, Head of the Royce Nanocharacterisation Lab, is among three academics from The University of Sheffield to have been recognised as some of the most talented early career researchers and innovators in the UK by a prestigious fellowship.
Lauren Eggleton, IOM3 1st Pace

A sticky situation sees University of Sheffield's Lauren Eggleton win Young Person's Lecture Competition

Second year PhD student in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at The University of Sheffield, has won the prestigious IOM3 Young Persons’ Lecture Competition (YPLC).

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Official opening of the Royce Discovery Centre at The University of Sheffield

The new state-of-the-art research facility, the Royce Discovery Centre, in partnership with the Henry Royce Institute and The University of Sheffield, officially opened on 20th April 2022.

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Next gen materials to boost UK manufacturing set to be produced by new research centre

The next generation of materials to meet the needs of UK manufacturing are set to be developed by a new state-of-the-art research centre that has officially opened today (20 April 2022).