Mr Robin Hughes

Robin Hughes has been Chairman of the British Physics Olympiad for the past ten years and a UK team leader at the International Physics Olympiad for considerably longer. The BPhO is a charity that provides physics competitions for school students (40,000 in 2022) raising the profile of the subject in schools. He is also a member of the Isaac Physics team at the Cavendish Laboratory working on supporting physics teaching in UK schools through an online platform. His experience of the school-university connection in physics is supported by over three decades in the classroom, whilst maintaining his academic connections with university studies over many years. Setting stretching physics problems for school students, to develop their problem solving skills, encourages them to consider entering the subject and applying to competitive universities.