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SLL launches ‘Get Curious’ programme to boost school lighting placements

The Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) has launched an initiative to encourage lighting professionals and teams to offer work placements to Key Stage...

Budget pledges £200m to accelerate EV charging roll out

Chancellor Rachel Reeves used today’s Budget to announce a multi-million-pound cash injection into accelerating the roll out of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Reeves told MPs:...

Registration open for Lighting Live Local Authority

Registration has now opened for February’s ILP Lighting Live Local Authority event in Daventry, Northamptonshire. The CPD day on 5 February will return to the...

Architecture and engineering among worst for ‘periods penalty’ for women

Architecture, engineering and the building trade are among the worst offenders when it comes to women feeling their progression and pay has been harmed...

‘Stories with light’

Award-winning lighting designer Michael Grubb has written a book, ‘Stories with Light’, with author and journalist Francis Pearce. The book, five years in the making,...

London boroughs ‘under-prepared’ for PFI expiry

Many London boroughs are not prepared for the expiry of their private finance initiative (PFI) contracts and may struggle because of a lack of...

FROM THE EDITION – ‘JURY STILL OUT’

The Society of Light and Lighting’s ‘Illuminating the Future’ conference in March considered the links between darkness, crime and safety, and lighting, with Sheffield...

Study suggests blue-blocked LED better for psychiatric units

Research has suggested that exposure to light without blue wavelengths may be beneficial to patients in psychiatric units. A study in the academic journal PLOS...

‘WHY I DON’T LIKE DRIVING AT NIGHT’ (REVISITED)

At last year’s Centenary Lighting Summit, and in September’s edition of Lighting Journal, Allan Howard outlined the factors driving growing concerns around vehicle headlight...

LESS IS MORE

Two years in, East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s innovative road safety and decarbonisation Live Labs 2 pilots are progressing at a pace – and...

SEND pupils often keenest to go into tech-based careers – poll

Young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) have a higher interest in technology-based careers than non-SEND pupils, research has suggested. The poll of...

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SLL launches ‘Get Curious’ programme to boost school lighting placements

The Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) has launched...

Budget pledges £200m to accelerate EV charging roll out

Chancellor Rachel Reeves used today’s Budget to announce a...

Registration open for Lighting Live Local Authority

Registration has now opened for February’s ILP Lighting Live...

‘Lighting in sync’ to be at the heart of this week’s LiGHT25

The countdown is well and truly on to this...

Light pollution set to be discussed for first time at COP30

The impact of light pollution on our climate is...
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