It has been a really exciting year this year with Grace Pocock and Jess Dyson starting their PhDs and Nicola Dawson becoming Dr Nicola Dawson and heading off to Oxford for a postdoc with Kate Nation. UGRAs Daisy Miller, Lucy Hemmings, Charlotte Stoate and Paige Mahoney graduated with flying colours and Rachel Nesbit handed in her PhD. Jessie also got promoted to Reader. Looking forward to welcoming new people next year, Suzanne Aussems will be starting as a postdoc with the LARA lab and Dr Jeanne Shinskey and we will be joined by UGRAs Aiswarya Thamilselvan, Alice Storr, Lauren Smith, Lauriane Bonnet, and Rebecca Bright.