Mr. Lee Reynolds:

Our general experience is that there is a disjoint. We provided the committee with a careers booklet. The careers include medical physicist; projects officer; financial analyst; planning and project engineer; IT risk management consultant; science communicator; PhD student; optical engineer; and an electrical apprentice. I mean no disrespect to the people who fulfil those roles but I would question how many of them would link physics to that breadth and depth of roles. Physics is seen too often as solely a graduate route, and that is the route people should go for, but it is much more than that.

I will just add this little point for physics. We have a bit of a branding issue in that if a person's career is connected to biology or chemistry, he or she will probably find "bio" or "chem" somewhere in his or her title. People can, therefore, see the direct linkage with the subject. Physics goes under 100 different names so people do not see the relationship or draw the linkages. We need to educate careers advisers of the breadth and depth of the opportunities that already exist and others that will exist.