Diamond Annual Review 2021/22

124 125 D I A M O N D L I G H T S O U R C E A N N U A L R E V I E W 2 0 2 1 / 2 2 D I A M O N D L I G H T S O U R C E A N N U A L R E V I E W 2 0 2 1 / 2 2 Our 2021 Year in Industry Cohort after completing their two-day Presentation Skills Workshop, held at Cosener’s House in Abingdon, March 2022. It wasmy best summer so far. I met great people, explored Oxfordshire, built a software package I can show to future employers, and got paid to do it. Aurys Silinga, 2021 Summer Placement Student Our 2021 PhD Cohort made up of 24 students co-funded by Diamond and 15 universities and world leading facilities, have begun their studentships and we have been able to induct the majority of them on an individual basis here at Diamond. This brings the total number of active Diamond PhD Studentships to 109.We received 54 submissions to our 2022 Diamond Doctoral Studentship call for proposals, which were linked with 33 different universities and institutions. Following the internal review process, we will be welcoming 21 students in October 2022. The PhD student annual progress meetings with Diamond and the student engagement team continue to be valuable for both us and the students, providing a formal opportunity to check in with each student in year 2 and above individually. These enable us to understand how students are progressing with their projects and is a chance for them to flag any achievements or concerns they may have. Diamond has supported 19 PhD students to date with extensions to their studentships due to impact from COVID-19 and we have worked closely with our partners at universities to finalise these. Student visits were impacted quite heavily due to the pandemic, being affected both by access to site and a change in teaching arrangements at universities. However, Diamond managed to support eight virtual and 11 in- person visits from undergraduate and postgraduate groups, offering a range of talks and training. Scientific Workshops and Conferences As a world-leading centre for synchrotron science, Diamond drives and supports science at UK universities and research institutes. Organising and planning events and workshops helps us to engage with our user community and potential users and provide opportunities to learn more about our instruments as well as shape future developments. It has been a busy year of online workshops and webinars. Due to the pandemic, several of our regular events adapted to virtual mode including the Synchrotron Radiation School, HyperSpy and the X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy workshop. A number of new events were also introduced to the virtual events calendar such as the B24 Correlative Cryo-Imaging workshop and the DIAD User workshop. The Early Career Scientist Symposium worked particularly well online – allowing a much larger audience – seeing a record Date Event Number of attendees 19-23 April 2021 HyperspyWorkshop 100 20-21 April 2021 Vacuum Training Course 50 10-12 May 2021 Serial MX User Workshop 22 13-14 May 2021 bioSAXSWorkshop 45 21 May 2021 GCRF START CollaborationWebinar 36 1-4 June 2021 Advanced SAS Training School 16 07 June 2021 GCRF START Closing Event 97 09-11 June 2021 XASWorkshop 38 23-25 June 2021 B24Workshop 53 1-3 September 2021 S4SAS Conference 145 07-08 September 2021 DIAD Users Workshop 105 22 September 2021 I08Webinar 134 01 October 2021 SWIFT Beamline User Working Group 15 05-07 October 2021 SR School (Part 1) 50 13-14 October 2021 SR School (Part 2) 50 27 October 2021 CSXID Beamline User Working Group 15 28 October 2021 SWIFT Beamline User Working Group 15 08-12 November 2021 Early Career Scientists Symposium 790 12 November 2021 SWIFT Beamline User Working Group 15 22-25 November 2021 eBIC cryo-ETWorkshop 400 29 Nov - 10 Dec 2021 DLS-CCP4Workshop 20 18 January 2022 Apprenticeship Open evening 1 17 26 January 2022 Apprenticeship Open evening 2 12 17 February 2022 Apprenticeship Open evening 3 3 21-24 February 2022 eBIC workshop Becoming an ‘indepen- dent’ single particle data collector 20 01 March 2022 Active Material Laboratory Introduction 96 11 March 2022 I06 laser-PEEM facility - User Working Group 11 17-18 March 2022 ePSIC/Birmingham Remote Demo Sessions 96 Our 2020 Year in Industry students at their end of project Poster Session in the Diamond Atrium, with one student presenting remotely! Our 2021 Year in Industry students (right to left: Parnavi, Ishika, Zaeem and Alex) in discussion during our Peer Review Training session. number of 270+ delegates.We have continued to engage our user community in preparations for the new beamlines for Diamond-II with several User Working Group meetings over the last fewmonths. Planning has begun for a move back toward in-person events for spring/ summer 2022. August will see Diamond hosting IXS2022, our first international conference since the pandemic. We are excited to welcome the Inelastic X-ray Scattering community to Oxford to share new scientific discoveries and the latest developments in the instrumentation, experimental approaches and theories.