SRP's Mentoring Scheme aims to match less experienced RP professionals with senior members (ideally in a similar field) who are able to offer advice and guidance via suitable communication means (e.g. phone, email, or face-to-face meetings). Mentors will aim to support mentees with their learning and development for an agreed period (we suggest around 12 months although this will depend on mentor availability). 

Mentoring may include help with a particular project or problem, guidance during a course of study where no other suitable mentor is available, advice on career progression or assistance with a paper publication, a conference poster, or a competition entry.

The list of mentors is at the bottom of this page.

Interested in becoming a mentee?

It's envisaged that mentees will be SRP members normally in their early/mid careers, e.g. members of RGG (within the first 10 years of their RP career). Nevertheless, this mentoring scheme is open to anyone in the wider SRP membership who wishes to make use of it.

If you'd like to request a match with a mentor, please e-mail admin@srp-uk.org with your preferred mentor from the list below.

Interested in becoming a mentor?

To be an effective mentor you must be able to provide clear guidance and direction, help interpret complex information on technical and managerial issues, listen effectively and provide appropriate encouragement to the mentee. Mentors may specialise in a single subject (such as transport regulations or shielding) or cover a wide portfolio, such as all the skills and competences that together constitute an RPA.

 There are many benefits to being a mentor, including:

• Favourable consideration when applying to SRP for financial support
• Looks great on your CV
• Increased exposure and a positive boost to reputation within RP community
• Improved soft skills (something of great benefit to the mentor’s employer also)

If you'd like to register to become a mentor - first of all, thank you!  Please e-mail admin@srp-uk.org and you will be asked to fill in a form detailing a little bit about yourself and your availability.

Please note: if you participate in the Mentoring Scheme as either a mentee or mentor you will be expected to abide by the Mentoring Procedure.

Mentors

Victoria Bassett-Smith, Head of Nuclear Medicine, NHS Lothian

Areas of Specialism: Medical Physics, Radiopharmacy, NAIR and Emergency Reponse and Class 7 Transport.

 

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Pete Bryant, Decommissioning and Radiological Assessment Specialist & NNB GenCo RWA (EDF Energy Nuclear New Build) and University of Surrey (Associate Tutor)

 

 

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Belinda Kershaw, Retired

Area of Specialism: 

Radioactive Waste Operations-
• Discharge to atmosphere monitoring, assessment, maintenance. Includes radioactive gases such as radon and thoron.
• RHILW and CHILW monitoring, assessment, treatment and processing with particular interest in radium and thorium.

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Raymond Laidlaw, RPA, MoD

Areas of Specialism: Ten plus years’ experience in decommissioning within nuclear licensed sites.  This involved complex work in high hazard radiological areas, working successfully with multiple supporting contract companies and also within the high-pressure project delivery environment.

 

 

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Simon McLauchlan, Senior Consultant (Dose Assessments), Magnox

Areas of Specialism: Dose assessments covering fault analysis, planned work, environmental discharges, emergency planning (REPPIR) and vital areas. Radiological protection in design and operation of plant and environmental permitting.
 

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Adrian Punt, Director, RadEcol Consulting Limited

Areas of Specialism: An environmental scientist with nearly 20-years’ experience in consultancy support to the nuclear industry. Including Offsite Radiological Impact Assessment, Radioactive Waste Management Arrangements and Expert Advisor, Technical Authorship and Review.  An RPA2000 Certified RWA, holds a CRadP, Fellow of the Institution of Environmental Sciences, Member of SRP, Member of International Union of Radioecology and Affiliate Member of Chartered Institution of Wastes Management.

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David Simister, Retired, ex Superintending Nuclear Inspector, ONR

Areas of Specialism: Management and leadership, regulation, safety cases and ALARP, site inspection, stakeholder engagement, report writing and public speaking, communication, dose reduction, dosimetry, criticality, research.

 

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Rob Stevenson, Radiation Protection Adviser, AWE

Areas of Specialism: Health physics standards – surveys and emergency response, RP training (inc. responders)

 

 

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Mike Thorne, Consultant

Areas of Specialism: Distribution and transport of radionuclides in the environment, management and disposal of solid radioactive wastes, biokinetics and internal dosimetry, climatology and landscape development, behaviour and toxicology of uranium.

 

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Jim Thurston, Head of Medical Physics and Healthcare Technology, Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Areas of Specialism: Medical Radiation Protection – both Ionising and Non-Ionising. Acting as a Radiation Protection Adviser and Medical Physics Expert.

 

 

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Matt Tuck, Managing Director, Matom Ltd

Areas of Specialism: Civil reactor sites decommissioning, hazardous material contaminated land remediation, counter terrorism (recovery),Process plant decommissioning, plant modification design and controls

 

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Paul Leonard, Consultant

Areas of Specialism: Emergency Planning & Response, Nuclear Site Inspection, Assessment of the public & design of appropriate environmental monitoring & Citizen Science / Communication of RP to the public.