Oldfield Award Winners 2008
Announced

 

1st Prize - John Plummer, Sheffield - The influence of elastic moduli on the glass forming ability and plasticity of bulk metallic glasses

 

2nd Prize -Jonathan Phillips, Imperial-Final year research project.

 

3rd Prize Melanie Young, Bath-Characterisation and comparison of glassy glucose and sucrose solutions using MDSC measurements and x-ray diffraction

Oldfield Award

  • The oldfield award is open to UK students and international students.
  • There are prizes for 1st 2nd and 3rd. (£500, £350 and £150).
  • It is presented for research projects carried out by either undergraduate or taught masters students.
  • The subject of the project can be any experimental or theoretical investigation related to amorphous solids, glasses, glass-ceramics, sol-gel materials or ormocers, glass history and archaeology or glass commerce and design.
  • This can include fundamental science, applied science, technology and engineering.
  • It should be work completed within the twelve months prior to the June submission and presented in English.

Eligibility:

  • Final-year undergraduate project theses.
  • Taught masters theses.
  • Reports from sandwich projects or placements/internships.
  • Summer projects in a research group.
  • Research projects by Erasmus or other exchange students.

The Institution at which the student is registered should:

  • Encourage students to have their projects considered for the awards. The supervisor should nominate no more than two candidates from amongst these students for an award.
  • The supervisor is invited to submit a copy of the project report from the selected student, as a .pdf file in English, to the Society by 30th June in the submission year. The report should be that which is submitted to the Institution for credit in that academic year and should be accompanied by documentation completed by the supervisor indicating the academic level at which the work was undertaken (undergrad/MSc/postgrad) and the full-time equivalent the student would have spent on it. Please also include the instructions normally issued to students for completion of their project.
  • Appoint a contact, preferably the project supervisor, who will be responsible for sending the report and documentation and who can give information on the amount of direction given to the student and the amount of original work included.
  • The administration of the Oldfield Award will be by the Basic Science and Technology Committee. Judging of the reports will take place during July of the submission year and will be done by a panel of academics and industrialists using referees from the appropriate fields. The final arbiter of the awards will be the Board of Fellows of the Society. The award winners will also receive free student membership of the Society up to the end of the following year. The first place award will be made during the Society of Glass Technology’s Annual Conference – usually in September, for which the winner will be awarded free registration. The Institution at which the student is registered should contact the SGT.

Previous Oldfield Award Winners:

  • 2006 1st Prize - C. Bray, Reading - Modelling the atomic structure of melt-spun amorphous Dy3Ni3
  • 2006 2nd Prize Jnt - James Minshull, Oxford - The effect of high-temperature damage on the strength of float glass.
  • 2006 2nd Prize Jnt - G Mateo, Paisley - Effect of manufacturing parameters on the colour of glasses doped with oxides of iron and manganese.
  • 2005 1st Prize - M. Al-Mahrougi, Sheffield - Defect mediated model for glass.
  • 2005 2nd Prize - E. Michie, Imperial - Novel radioative wave forms.
  • 2005 3rd Prize - J. Drewitt, Wales - 27Al(1H) & 29Si(1H) CPMAS NMR study of hydrated alumina and silica sol-gels.
  • 2004 1st Prize - E. Kirkby, Oxford - High electric fields in thin SiO2 field.
  • 2004 2nd Prize Jnt - H. Dart, Sheffield - Investigation in to corrosion behaviour of simulated magnox-UO2 blended glass.
  • 2004 2nd Prize Jnt - E. Clark, Kent - Theoretical physics MPhys Project.
  • 2003 1st Prize - J. Thompstone, Imperial - Ballistic impact damage in brittle metals.
  • 2003 2nd Prize - W. Cooke.
  • 2003 3rd Prize - C. Murphy, Nottingham - Investigation of fluorozirconate glasses for use as planar wavelength.

Paul Award

This prize is up for grabs if you present a paper in our New Researchers Forum at our annual conference. You can win £250 + free student SGT membershipfor the year for the best presentation (clarity, technical content) as voted by the audience. What you got to lose ask your tutour about attending. Turn up, learn, have fun and have a go for that £250 quid.