Welcome to the Science & Technology Facilities Council Hub

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is a place where curiosity-driven, blue-skies thinking meets practical, application-led science and engineering. STFC is home to an incredibly diverse array of research, technology and engineering projects – and each one promises to fire the imagination. Read more »

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The facts

To find out more about our organisation please visit:
www.stfc.ac.uk

The UK invests around £460 million a year in science and technology research.

STFC is one of Europes largest multi-disciplinary research organisations.

We were founded in April 2007.

STFC employs 1,700 people.

3,600 people access the UK science facilities.

We recruit over 20 graduates each year into a development programme.

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Explore SCD in 60 seconds

Debbie Greenfield

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Darkness in the Universe

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Graduate Scheme

Welcome to STFC

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A Glimpse of our Big Science

Thomas Dack

Scientific Computing Graduate

"STFC offers the chance to work at a world leading research organisation with a range of great benefits."

Matt Capstick

Mechanical Graduate Engineer (ISIS)

"At STFC there is the potential for working on a wide range of projects in interesting and exciting fields as well as working on projects which will eventually have cutting edge theoretical and practical implications."

UK joins World Leading X-Ray Laser Facility

The UK has today become the latest member state of the European XFEL, the international research facility that is home to the world’s largest X-ray laser.

UK celebrates 5 years of successfully bringing space technology...

2 December 2015 Since 2010 over 50 new space technology start-ups have launched in the UK and then rocketed to become thriving, growing businesses thanks to the support of the European Space Agency’s Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC Harwell) which opened in Oxfordshire five years ago...