john womersley ppd staff meeting john womersley 6 february 2007

John Womersley

PPD staff meeting PPD staff meeting

John Womersley

6 February 2007

John Womersley

OutlineOutline

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

STFCSTFC

Slides from Keith Mason briefing to community earlier this week

Science & TechnologyScience & TechnologyFacilities CouncilFacilities Council

Management structure

Paul Hartley

Jeff Down

Andrew Taylor

Jim Sadlier

Richard Wade

Colin Whitehouse

John Wood

John WomersleyGraham Brooks

Science & TechnologyScience & TechnologyFacilities CouncilFacilities Council

Science Board

Audit Committee

Education & Public

Outreach Committee

International Advisory

Committee

Chief Executive &

Council

Business Board

STFC Top- Level Advisory Structure

Science & TechnologyScience & TechnologyFacilities CouncilFacilities 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 Science Advisory StructureStructure

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 UnitBusiness 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 StrategyDirector 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 NewsPPARC 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…Questions, comments…