As a PhD student, I have attend a number of courses, of which I am expected to arrive punctually, have the correct equipment for the course, and to fully engage with. I have also participated in a Journal Club throughout the course, and am expected to attend regular meetings.As I am based in an experimental laboratory, I am required to follow all appropriate health and safety requirements, and ensure that experimental equipment is used and stored correctly.Due to the nature of the projects, I also attend Skype meetings with a MURI group consisting of a number of universities from the UK and the USA who are studying metamaterials.Courses Attended Include:Basic Health And Safety - 30 minute course - 10/13Biomedical Application of Accelerators, Radiation Biology/Radiotherapy at QUB - 5 day course - 01/14Leadership course - 4 day course - 02/14Ion Beam Course - 5 day course - 04/14Proton Accelerator and their Application Course - 5 day course - 05/14Introduction to Physical Chemistry (MOOC) - 6 week course - 06-07/14Conferences Attended:IoP Workshop on Novel Materials and Nanostructures for Particle Accelerators - 10/14 (presented talk on effects of high power on metmaterials, 30 mins)CDT Annual Conference - 09/14 (presented talk 15 mins and poster on using Photonic Crystal Structures for use in Particle Accelerators) Metamorphose Metamaterials Copenhagen 2014 - 08/14 - conference paper can be found at http://congress2014.metamorphose-vi.org/images/congress/submission/updates/Hopper-20140604-012829.EffectsofHighPoweronMicro-update.pdf - (presented poster)Metamorphose Metamaterials "Novel Terahertz and Infrared Metamaterials" Doctoral Training School - 08/14National Vacuum Electronics Conference - 06/14 - (presented talk on Characterising Properties and Loss in High Power Metamaterials)

This work was funded as a Teching Fellowship by the Ogden Trust.My time working at the school was split into two different sections :06/2012 - 07/2012, accumulating to 7 weeks of full time assisting with the physics department of the school. My responsibilities during this time included, but were not limited to:Supervising students and ensuring they are on task.Attending staff meetings and assisting with re-organising the A-Level Physics curriculum within the department.Assisting in the production of learning aids for sixth form students.Planning and organising events for groups of children and staff ranging from year 7 - 13, and from a few children to a whole year group.Assisting in the analysis of data accumulated by one of the teachers who had been running IOP events determining ways to encourage more girls into physics.10/2012 - 06/2013 consisting of two, 1-2 hour sessions a week, after school. The first session was an extra-curricular event called ”Rocket Club”, held to encourage students from years 7 to 11 to get involved with science. My responsibilities for this included, but were not limited to:Supervising the pupils.Ensuring that the students are aware of, and obey, any health and safety regulations.Preparing activities, and coordinating with the science technicians to ensure they could take place.Providing the pupils with answers and solutions (or direct them to a member of staff who could) to any problems they may experience.The second session was an A level ”Help Session”, designed to assist struggling AS level students with topicsthey find difficult. My responsibilities for this included, but were not limited to:Having a sound knowledge of the AS curriculum to provide students with understandable, relevant solutions to issues that may arise within the course.Planning and preparing sessions to engage the students, and working through examples of questions based around the topic they are struggling with.

During the summer of 2009 I attended the Photonic Summer School at OpTIC Technium. This involved me utlising the properties of lasers and LEDs to create a robot that could assist humans in some way. The design I chose was a S.P.A.C.E. B.U.G. (Searching Photonics Assisted Collecting Expedient, Built Using Gadgets). The aim of this robot was to assist in collecting materials and data from extra-terrestrial bodies (the newly-emerging exoplanets were the target at the time) using LEDs and photodiodes to detect distances to possible dangers, and avoid them.Through this project I developed skills in individual research, soldering, designing and manufacturing circuits - including logic, increased my understanding of electromagnetics and photonics, health and safety in a laboratory environment among many others.This project was presented to the Mayor of St Asaph, along with a number of other industry personel and representatives from the BA Gold Crest Award Scheme and Nuffield. A Nuffield Award was achieved for this project, along with a Certificate of Continuing Education in Optoelectronics from Glyndwr University.