On 30 March 2017, EPSRC will be holding an event to launch the new 'Tier 2' layer of High Performance Computing (HPC) equipment. These new computers will be funded through a £20 million grant awarded to the Universities of Bristol, Loughborough, Cambridge, Oxford, Edinburgh, and UCL. Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith from the University of Bristol writes about 'Isambard' - Bristol's new supercomputer which hopes to change the landscape of HPC.

To celebrate International Women's Day and British Science Week, six leading women in science share their thoughts on choosing a career in science, challenges for women in STEM and advice for the next generation.

For researchers looking to build experience in healthcare technologies, a new discipline-hopping funding opportunity is available. We hear from a clinician who discipline-hopped early in his career.

British Science Week begins on the 10 March; featuring an array of exciting science-based events and activities across the UK designed to engage more people with science, technology, maths and engineering. Asha Patel, an EPSRC E-TERM post-doctoral fellow at the University of Nottingham and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) tells us about her experience in creative science communications.

In Shaping Capability in 2010/2011 the research area Statistics and Applied Probability was suggested by EPSRC to have a grow trajectory. Professor Andreas Kyprianou is based at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and discusses how the maths community responded at the time, and the progress of the research area.

EPSRC Deputy Chief Executive, Professor Tom Rodden, shares his thoughts on the Industrial Strategy and what it means for EPSRC-funded researchers.

As the outcomes of the Balancing Capability project are published on 15 February, we hear from EPSRC Engineering SAT Chair Dr Ruth Mallors-Ray, on how the project was achieved and the challenges faced by the team on this journey.

Emma Metcalfe-Smith is a first year PhD student at the EPSRC-funded research and training centre in 'Physical Sciences for Health' at the University of Birmingham. Emma tells us about the lessons learnt, in and out the lecture theatre, in interdisciplinary research.

EPSRC's Chief Executive, Council Members and supported academics ranging from RISE Leaders to PhD students reveal their resolutions for the New Year.

At the RI's Christmas Lectures ("Supercharged: Fuelling the future") on energy this year, Professor Saiful Islam leads an incredible journey through the invisible presence that drives everything around us. He took ten minutes out of his busy schedule to answer our questions...