What is "sepnet"

The South-East Physics Network, or SEPnet, is an association of physics departments at universities in the South-East of England.

In 2008 it received a grant of £12.5 million from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. and in 2013 received an additional grant of £2.75m

The South East Physics Network is better known as SEPnet, a consortium of physics departments in nine universities.

Its partners are, alphabetically:

• The University of Hertfordshire (joined 2013)
• The University of Kent (Founding member)
• The Open University (joined 2013)
• The University of Portsmouth (joined 2010)
• Queen Mary, University of London (Founding member)
• Royal Holloway, University of London (Founding member)
• The University of Southampton (Founding member)
• The University of Surrey (Founding member)
• The University of Sussex (Founding member)

Its associates are:

• University of Oxford
• The University of Reading
• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory