We focus on experimental work centred on spintronics, in particular we fabricate nanostructures from a variety of materials and investigate their properties as a function of structure, temperature and magnetic field.We are particularly interested in electron transport in novel structures and materials. One of our strengths is our ability to fabricate a wide range of structures including spin-valves, tunnel junctions, ferromagnet/superconductor junctions and quantum point contacts for Andreev scattering. Structures are produced using, for example, shadow masks, MBE for self-organisation, lithography, templates and FIB processing. We characterise these structures using neutron and x-ray scattering, AFM/STM and magnetometry.