Congratulations to Kay Doncom and Rebecca Williams from the O’Reilly group both won poster prizes at the Recent Appointees in Polymer Science meeting held at Loughborough University. Kay won first prize for her poster “Thermo-responsive properties of sulfobetaine-containing block copolymers” and Rebecca a runner-up prize for her poster “Cyclic vs. linear graft copolymers: Differences in particle morphology and thermoresponsive behaviour”. The conference is aimed at post-doctoral researchers and early career academics working in polymer science and also saw presentations from Warwick’s Paul Wilson (Chemistry) and Tara Schiller (WMG).