Terms of Reference

The review will:

• consider the priorities for investment across physics as a whole, taking account of the need both to maintain the health of discipline, and to strengthen its wider, including economic, impact in the future;

• identify the contribution physics makes to other areas of research and explore how these contributions can be enhanced, with the view to strengthening the health of the UK research base as a whole;

• identify options for strengthening research leadership, and enhancing the opportunities in physics for young researchers;

• with resources coming from more than one funding organisation, examine ways to improve the coherence of the UK physics programme;

• examine the provision of physics-based facilities, their application across the science base, and appropriate means of sustaining their operation;

• comment on any other issues that have implications for the health of physics in the UK.