Dear Shan (and ILT)
I'm one of the physicist members of the ILT - and I'm sure your physicist
colleagues see Manchester University as a competitor. I'm also an
external examiner for their MSc course! Feel free to make whatever use
you can of that information.
Nevertheless I do see myself as a physicist-who-lectures rather than a
lecturer-of-physics, and I suspect that most of my collegues in
Manchester, Royal Holloway, and everywhere are pretty much the same. Of
course there is a lot of fascinating and useful stuff one can learn from
other disciplines, but I think that, at any rate to begin with, people
will find it valuable to work with groups within the same subject boundary
who share a background and experience and tribal chants.
I hope the ILT can move forward in setting up such subject groups (and
I'll be happy to offer to help organise/encourage potential ILT
physicists.)
Roger Barlow
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