John Womersley PPD staff meeting John Womersley 6 February 2007

John Womersley Outline 1.STFC 2.New business unit organisation 3.My future role 4.Some news from last week’s PPARC Science Committee Q&A

John Womersley STFC Slides from Keith Mason briefing to community earlier this week

Science & Technology Facilities Council Management structure Paul Hartley Jeff Down Andrew Taylor Jim Sadlier Richard Wade Colin Whitehouse John Wood John Womersley Graham Brooks

Science & Technology Facilities Council Science Board Audit Committee Education & Public Outreach Committee International Advisory Committee Chief Executive & Council Business Board STFC Top- Level Advisory Structure

Science & Technology Facilities Council COUNCIL CEO Science Board Financial and scientific tensioning Long Term Planning OPTIONS Physical and Life Sciences Committee Prioritize, Filter, Sort, Peer Review where appropriate Science Advisory Structure PPAN* Science Committee Prioritize, Filter, Sort, Peer Review * Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics ADVISORY STRUCTURE USER COMMITTEES COMMUNITY IDEAS PEER REVIEW FROM RCs OPPORTUNITIES STRATEGIC PLANS FROM OTHER RCs International Advisory Committee OPTIONS Science Programme Office

John Womersley STFC in place on 1 April 2007 – all of our contracts will transfer over Budget will be CCLRC + PPARC + nuclear physics There will be a “launch event” in London in April – new logo etc. Some key issues for particle physics –Opportunities Exploit synergies, transcend “Swindon viewpoint” –Risks Need to defend (again) the role of a national lab and of in-house research

John Womersley Business Unit Slides from Richard Holdaway’s staff meeting earlier this week

Director, Facility Operations 1566 Staff Facilities for Science Business Unit 766 Science & Technology Business Unit 800 Resources 44 Technology 272 Space 201 Lasers 79 ISIS 325 SR 161 ASTec 56 E-Science 103 P Physics 100 UK ATC 104 Nuclear 10 CSE 69 Resources 42 Island Sites TBD

“Facility Operations” Primary Functions  Deliver S&T & Instrumentation through Research, Development, and Facilities  Enable HEI’s & Industry to realise the full potential of this R&D and facilities  Deliver KT & Outreach, and provide input to UK S&T Strategy Concept Two Business Units, each led by an Executive Director, and each with 700 staff Departments within each BU are typically 100+ staff, led by a Director Self-contained “front-line” Finance/Admin/IT processes within each BU BU’s fully linked to all other STFC Directorates

STBU Facts Formally up and running from 1/4/07 ~ £100M income ~ 800 Staff

Top-Level STBU issues - 1 No staff losses proposed or expected Department science strategy and management remains with the Directors / Heads Recruit top-quality Director Technology Resolve issue of Director Particle Physics

John Womersley I am not sure the name “Science and Technology Business Unit” has been formally agreed Structure shown is that on 1/4/07; it is open to subsequent evolution –e.g. move departments from “FBU” to “STBU”, split off Space Institute Key issues for particle physics: –Exploit better connections with Technology department –What is best position/organisation for department

John Womersley Director of Science Strategy Essentially replaces the position of Chief Scientist Responsible for science and technology strategy across the whole remit of council operations My view is that it should aim to connect –The good background of peer review and community involvement inherited from PPARC –With the in-house science expertise inherited from CCLRC Therefore it is a key part of making sure that STFC is more than just PPARC + CCLRC I think it will benefit STFC and (indirectly) Particle Physics if I take this role

John Womersley Plan A –I remain involved in running PPD at some level, especially where big strategy is concerned, but with day-to-day administration delegated Plan B –There will be a new director of PPD This will be resolved soon – has been delayed by availability of some of the people who need to be involved in the decision (including me – sorry!)

John Womersley PPARC Science Committee News SC met last week. News is not good. The overall budget is £9M deeper in the red than thought over next 3 years: –Australian contributions lost –Cost of shared services centre at Swindon –Government reduction across all RC’s In this climate big new projects are hard to fund SC recommended supporting GridPP3 at PPRP’s “minimum viable” level MICE and NF – PPARC will look to CCLRC –ASTAB meets tomorrow and Friday at DL Support for LC-ABD still being discussed but not likely to grow Still “trying to find a way” to do T2K Zeplin III comes to next meeting…

John Womersley Questions, comments…