Prof Tim R Morris has been awarded funding in the newly created scientific visitor programme for a two-month visit to the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste.

Congratulations to Profs Stefano Moretti (SHEP) and Claire Shepherd (RAL PPD) as well as Dr Harri Waltari (from Helsinki) for securing funding from the Rutherford International Fellowship Programme (RIFP), sponsored by STFC and the European Commission under Horizon 2020, through the Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND scheme. This award will enable Harri to join SHEP and RAL-PPD for up to two years as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on the NExT project: ``Probing neutrino dynamics via sneutrino searches in the CMS experiment". The appointment will start in the Winter/Spring of this year and includes formal links with Helsinki.

Congratulations to Prof Stefano Moretti for securing a two-year exchange grant from Kogakuin University (Tokyo), enabling SHEP & NExT members to visit local scientists Dr Tetsuo Shindou and Dr Takashi Watanabe and vice versa. In fact, the collaboration is a three-prong one, also including Prof Cheng-Wei Chiang of National Taiwan University (Taipei). The research exchanges are to start immediately and will be centred around the theme ``New physics models with an extended Higgs sector and their phenomenology''. The research builds on the highly-publicised advances of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and its discovery of the Higgs boson, an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics, which many scientists believe to have companions in new physics scenarios.

Renewed congratulations to Profs Stefano Moretti (SHEP) and Claire Shepherd (RAL PPD) as well as Dr Harri Waltari (from Helsinki) for securing further funding from the The Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation in the form of a `Post-doc Grant' enabling Harri to extend his stay with SHEP and RAL-PPD to work on the NExT project: "Probing neutrino dynamics via sneutrino searches in the CMS experiment".

Miss Wendy Carolina Gonzalez Olivares and Miss Daniela Hernandez Otero, both from the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (BUAP) (Puebla, Mexico), will be visiting the NExT Institute over a period of three months starting from September 2018. They are funded by CONACYT (Mexico) and will be based in Southampton to work on beyond the Standard Model Higgs physics.