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The L.S. Theobald Award is made in memory of Leslie Stuart Theobald (1898-1979), who was Lecturer/Reader in Analytical Chemistry at Imperial College from 1925 until his retirement in 1963. A brief biography is available on the Royal Society of Chemistry web site. Nominations for the award are invited annually.

The award is made to someone who has demonstrated a significant contribution to the development or application of analytical chemistry/analytical science.
The Analytical Methods Trust (AMT)

As we near the end of 2022, its worth reflecting back on our successes as a growing community. This year, we took a look as an executive board, at the work we had done in partnership with the ACTF who have co-funded the majority of our community work to date. When we examined our impact on the Analytical Measurement Science community in our first membership period, we found we had :

• Co-funded 40 awards 14 new academic positions (8 of which are permanent); 19 Fellowships and 7 P

Disruption Grant Closing 31^st Dec22

ACTF Trustees recognise the disruption that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on analytical science students. We are relaunching a disruption grant of £500 aimed at PhD students whose studies have been adversely affected by the pandemic and need additional monetary support to complete their studies.

Note, this fund is to support personal costs to help enable students to complete their studies for example rent, or other caring or living costs, and cannot be used

Laboratory professionals and members of the analytical community will be connecting at Lab Innovations, the UK’s largest trade exhibition for the laboratory industry. The show takes place on 2^nd – 3^rd November at the NEC in Birmingham and registration is free.

CAMS member Alana Thompson from Anthias Consulting takes a look at what is going on at the show this year.

Now in its 10^th year, Lab Innovations is a bright and busy show buzzing with new product launches and demonstrations of new technolo

The move reflects the company’s energy, purpose and confidence as it leans into an ambitious future of strategic growth.

To learn more click here

ACTF & CAMS are pleased to announce this year’s CAMS Fellowship Call is now open!

Visit https://cams-uk.co.uk/cams-fellowship-call-2022-now-open for more details.

Did you miss out on the CAMS Conference this year?

Head over to CAMS Conference 2022 - CAMS-UK to view all recordings from all our fantastic speakers. 

Out of the lab and into the field: Rapid on-site Raman testing for food security
There is a fully funded PhD position available for a UK student with Roy Goodacre in the Centre for Metabolomics Research, University of Liverpool.

Project Description:
Major food adulteration and contamination events occur with alarming regularity and are known to be
episodic, with the question being not IF but WHEN another large-scale food safety/integrity incident will
occur. The challenges of maintaining food secu

CAMS is an industry-led initiative aimed at promoting world-class analytical measurement science training, research, and innovation by bringing together a network of industrial and academic partners with interests in these fields. Since the launch of CAMS in 2019, the network has attracted 37 members (15 industrial and 22 academic organisations) and to date has awarded/co-funded 2 analytical chairs, 7 lectureships, 6 postdocs, 5 PhDs across the UK and Ireland with its generous funding support fr

The Learning Science Teaching Innovation Awards support innovation to positively impact teaching quality and enhance student learning.

Applicants are asked to demonstrate how they have led innovation in teaching and learning in their institution. Winners will be chosen by an expert scientific educational panel.

Possible ways you may have innovated teaching and learning:

• Solving a problem by improving tools and methods

• Improving teaching materials and practices

• Developing new digital learni

https://forms.gle/UmW47zxTFNjtptWS9

CAMS has launched its second call for Lectureships, PostDocs and PhDs, inviting responses to specific industry challenges aligned to the 4x CAMS themes:

• Point of use sensors and photonics
• Complex mixtures, separations and detection
• Data analytics
• Novel instrumentation or technique

Funding will be available for Lectureships, PostDocs and PhDs, noting that all bidders are expected to have secured co-funding that at least matches CAMS’s contribution (Lectureship - £200k, PostDoc - £100k and PhD -

The Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund (ACTF) and Community for Analytical Measurement Science (CAMS) are pleased to announce this year’s CAMS Fellowship call.

Purpose and Criteria of CAMS Fellowships

The ACTF-CAMS partnership provides funding for a range of initiatives to support the development of analytical measurement science talent. The objective of the ACTF is to promote, assist and extend the science and study of analytical chemistry, and of all questions relating to the analysis, nature and

Well, what a difference a few weeks make! I hope this finds you and yours well and coping with our flexible working revolution in parallel with home schooling, social distancing, excessive gardening and interesting hairstyles!

More than ever, the importance of community is central in everyone’s minds and this is increasingly true for the measurement sector globally. In recent weeks we have heard senior government officials comment on how testing is going to be important for a long time ahead and

UKRI invites applications for individuals from any discipline wishing to spend up to 36 months (full or part time) on secondment in the biomedical sciences sector.

• Competition opens: Friday 31 January 2020
• Competition closes: Wednesday 15 April 2020 12:00pm

More details available here

We are running 3 identical streams, which open on the same date but have different close dates:

• strand 1 (this stream) closing 15 April 2020
• strand 2 closing 13 May 2020
• strand 3 closing 1 July 2020

You must ch

In 2019 the Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund (ACTF) awarded 30 Summer Studentships of 6-8 weeks duration at 19 Universities, private sector companies and non-HEI public sector organisations across the UK and RoI. Awards are designed to provide experience of research to undergraduates with potential, and to encourage a career in analytical chemistry research once undergraduate studies are complete. ACTF has funded such studentships for many years; however, 2019 was the first year that they were

With this the first blog of the year, January has passed us by already, as CAMS enters an important phase in its journey.

With the CAMS Ltd entity established in a flurry of end of year activity, it has been business as usual this month - continuing to assign the initial stakeholder contributions to build on the 3 lectureships, 10 fellowships and 3 post-doctoral positions being added through CAMS to the wider analytical family around the UK. Focus is shifting also towards the longer term sustain

CAMS Fellowship Awards 2019

The CAMS fellowship awards for 2019 have been announced. The purpose of the award is to assist early career analytical chemists within 5 years of their first full-time junior academic appointment at a UK or Irish HEI to establish their own independent analytical science research identity. Congratulations to this year’s recipients:

• Dr Alice Bowen, University of Manchester, Optical control of spin-labels for dipolar EPR of multi-spin systems.

• Dr Zoe Hall, Imperial C

Whether you are an individual, a University, an SME, an instrument manufacturer or a multi-national organisation there is a CAMS membership for you!

Go to the MEMBERSHIP page to find out more.