Congratulations to Olivia Hawkins for passing her PhD viva voce exam on 23rd July 2025. Her PhD examiners were Prof Vas Stavros (Birmingham) and Prof Andrew Orr-Ewing (Bristol). Her PhD thesis entitled “Ultrafast Dynamics of 1,6-Diphenyl-1,3,5-Hexatriene in Complex Environments” used an arsenal of different experimental techniques to probe how the excited state photochemical dynamics of a model short-chain polyene and important bioimaging dye, DPH, are strongly influenced by their environment- in liquids or inside polypeptide barrels.