2025 Macro Group Annual Symposia and Medal Lectures
September 8th-9th 2025 University of Manchester

MGUK Annual Award Symposium is being organised at the University of Manchester.

You can follow the link to register for the symposium and contact the organisers.

Event Programme: 8th - 9th September 2025

Day 1: 8th September

  • 10:30 – Welcome

  • 11:00 - 12:20 – Macro Group Medal Winner 2025 and Stephen Boothroyd

  • 12:30 - 13:30 – Lunch and Poster Session

  • 13:30 - 15:00 – Emily Draper, Paul Topham, Macro Group Young Researchers Medal Winner 2025

  • 15:30 - 16:00 – Break

  • 16:00 - 17:30 – Annela Seddon, Roman Boulatov, Chris Kay

  • 17:30 - 17:45 – Sponsor announcements and poster prize winners awarded

  • 19:00 – Dinner - North Bar, Circle Square

Dinner is generously supported by a panel of RSC journals: RSC Applied Polymers, Polymer Chemistry and Materials Horizons

Day 2: 9th September

  • 09:00 - 10:30 – Steve Eichhorn, Hugo Bronstein, TBC

  • 10:30 – 11:00 – Break

  • 11:00 - 12:30 – Adèle Gapin, Stefan Bon, Jon Weaver PhD prize winner 2025

  • 12:30 - 13:30 – Lunch and Poster Session

  • 13:30 - 15:30 – Rachel O’Reilly, Macro Group Medal Winner 2024

Posters

All participants are encouraged to bring a poster to display and discuss during the meeting. For submission we only require a title and list of authors, to be supplied at the point of registration.

Poster prizes: 2 x £150 prizes along 1 years free membership to ACS

Poster prizes are generously sponsored by ACS polymer journals