A £13.5bn industry employing over 69,000 people in the UK with nationally leading productivity and global industrial and societal impact
The PLG is a voluntary collective of photonics industry and academic leaders nudging policy, strategy, industry and research in mutally beneficial directions
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The Photonics Leadership would like to congratulate two long time photonics innovators Prof Roy Sambles at the University of Exeter for receiving a Knighthood and Prof Miles Padgett at the University of Glasgow for receiving an OBE in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Photonics is a vital cross cutting technology, already impacting all of our daily lives from powering the internet to enabling rapid diagnostic testing. Yet we are only at the beginning of the photonic age. This unique insight into where photonics research will be pushing boundaries a decade from now draws on the insights of 26…
With the UK government focusing on science and technology as a driver of the Covid recovery and future growth, a new UK Research and Development Roadmap and Brexit , rarely have there been so many drivers of change in the UK innovation system. In conjunction with Photonex, the PLG is pleased to be able to…
The annual UK Quantum Showcase will be going ahead as a virtaul event on Firday 6 November. The showcase offers a opportunity to demonstrate the products and services that quantum is building and the key role photonics is playing in enabling a wide range of quantum applications. More information and registration details are available here…
A lively panel discussion chaired by Anke Lohmann (Anchored In & PLG Treasurer) in collaboration with Photonex with panellists, Chris Dorman (PLG Chairman and Coherent Scotland), David Lara (Microsoft Research), Tom Harvey (National Healthcare Photonics Centre) and John Lincoln (PLG) will discuss the many varied opportunities for Photonics as we make progress in recovering from…
The Photonics Leadership Group is making presentations that would normally form part of a PLG meeting open to all next week as part of the industry sessions at the Photonex digital forum. These are distributed over 3 lunch time sessions with a total of 7 presentations and panel discussions Photonics Growth 2021 and Beyond Tuesday…
A ground breaking horizon scanning report on the future of photonics research 2030 and beyond has been released by the Photonics Leadership Group and the All-Party Parliamentary Group in Photonics and Quantum. The PLG brought together 26 of the UK’s leading photonics researchers from 20 different institutions to ask “what will be the focus of photonics research a decade and more from now?”
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The PLG are requesting input to a new short, 14 question, survey to gauge the ongoing impact of Covid-19 on photonics. The new survey is directed to both industrialists and academic researchers, with separate questions for both, seeking to understand:- The state of recovery and future outlook The impact on exports and collaborative R&D The…
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee is conducting an inquiry into the role of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in providing guidence on UK Government decisions on intervening in foreign takeovers that may result in signficant incluence of change of control. “The Committee will also focus on what safeguards are required in the…
The PLG are currently constructing the second survey of the impact of Covid-19 on the UK Photonics and Acoustics industry. Our first survey in April showed the high resilience of UK Photonics manufacturing at the peak of lockdown and the high degree of uncertainty on future impact. The second survey will seek to generate an…
