Ms Fiona Longmuir:

Our head of team brought up this issue at the meeting of this committee he attended earlier this year. If you are a biologist or a chemist, when you go into your career, it is likely that you will "bio" or "chem" in your job title but this is not the case with physicists. We go under a thousand different names. I mentioned earlier that I speak to companies that tell me they do not employ any physicists and it turns out they are working in lasers, robotics or advanced computing so it is not just found in careers guidance. It is found within business as well and the institute needs to be better at drawing out that physics link and making it clear that these skills that are so sought after are physics skills.