We are delighted to congratulate Hannah Pyle and Jamie Webb on their PhD graduations, and Hannah Gurney on completing her MChem degree — fantastic achievements all round!

Well done to Steve who was promoted to Professor in Synthetic Supramolecular Chemistry. Much Deserved!

Welcome to Tara and Rebecca who join the group to begin their PhDs. We kicked things off with a lunch at the local Priory Pub.

Congratulations to Chuthu (lead PhD supervisor Amanda Pearce) for winning a poster prize at the 2025 Macro Group YRM meeting in Sheffield.

 The Group enjoyed healthily competitive game of rounders at Ruschcliffe park. Fairwell to Chrsity and Hannah – wishing you all the very best for your next stages of your careers!

We are delighted to congratulate Jamie on passing his PhD viva with minor corrections! Thanks to Prof. Simon Lewis and Prof. Steve Christie for examining Jamie’s PhD thesis.

Tony, Dom and Lea attended and presented at 2nd Global Action Meeting of the LUCES COST action in May 2025. Lea won a first place poster prize, Dom presented his first ever flash talk at an international conference and Tony presented a 15 minute presentation, gaining interest from supervisors intersted in using Array-based systems. Well done, everyone!

Welcome back, Dom! Dom is continuing research in the Butler group as a PDRA for the next 3 years on a multi-disciplinary EPSRC project using Ln-containing macrocyclic luminescent probes to detect specific analytes in vapour and liquid.