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.

 

 

Pete Bryant, Decommissioning and Radiological Assessment Specialist, World Nuclear Transport Institute and University of Surrey (Associate Tutor)
Areas of Specialism: Radioactive Substances Regulations Permittiing, Dose Assessment and Shielding Assessment, Short Long Range Dispersion Assessments, Nuclear Safety Case Production/Management, Risk Assessment, Nuclear Site Licence Condition Compliance, Radiation Detection, Management of Radiological Land Cotamination, Nuclear Security, Radioactive Waste Management, Training/Lecturing and Stakeholder Engagement.

Raymond Laidlaw, RPA, MoD
Areas of Specialism: Over twenty years’ experience working in the civil nuclear sector, successfully managing RP and Environmental Protection teams within the decommissioning phase of a nuclear licensed site’s  lifecycle. Ensuring regulatory compliance for ONR & EA. Eight years’ experience working within the defence sector, covering all RP aspects of the through life safety of all naval reactor plants within the Royal Navy. Ensuring authorisation condition compliance with DNSR.

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.

 

 

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.

 

Adrian Punt, Director, RadEcol Consulting Limited
Areas of Specialism: An environmental scientist with 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 RWA, holding CRadP and Fellow of the Institution of Environmental Sciences.

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.

 

Rob Stevenson, Radiation Protection Adviser, AWE
Areas of Specialism: Health physics standards – surveys and emergency response, RP training (inc. responders)

 

 

Robert Storrie, Retired
Areas of Specialism: Independent Assurance, Operational Health Physics & Waste & Decommissioning

 

 

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.

 

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.
 

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