An ambitious new project

Last year I was approached by Dr. Kerrianne Harrington, a Research Associate at the University of Bath, about an ambitious public engagement project she’s been imagining.

Harrington’s research focuses on Optical fibres in the field of Photonics: the physical science of light waves.

If you’re interested in the published works Harrington has been involved in you can read about them here.

Harrington is part of the team at Bath University’s Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials. Formed of around 30 academics, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students from the Physics Department, they all come together to work in a collaborative and interactive environment doing cutting-edge research in the field of Photonics.

And each and every one of them have in their desk a little keepsake unique to their own work (and I’m not talking about their stash of Lab Snacks), a waste product created in their lab in the process of their work, unique to each researcher - like a little glass fingerprint.

 Harrington’s proposal: Why not make something out of them?