Award criteria
Purpose: This prestigious award inaugurated in 1981 commemorates the late E J Grimwade MC HonFInstNDT, a major pioneering figure in the NDT world. The medal is awarded annually for the best paper by an Institute member to appear in the Institute’s journal in the preceding year.
Details of the award: The best paper is selected from articles published by Institute members in Insight during the preceding year.
Eligibility: Any Institute member who has published in Insight will be automatically considered (co-authors need not be members but only the lead author receives a medal).
Frequency: The prize will be awarded annually and will only be issued if suitable nominations are received.
Nomination arrangements: Automatic. Shortlist prepared by the NDT Sub-Committee and circulated to a judging panel for consideration. The judging panel will comprise the NDT Sub-Committee Chair and the Honorary Technical Editor, plus two other NDT members (nominated by the NDT Sub-Committee Chair).
Awarding arrangements: An engraved silver medal and an invitation to the NDT Annual Conference Dinner with one night's accommodation for the lead author. All authors will receive a certificate and Institute pin.
Publicity: The award will be fully reported in Institute publications and the Secretariat will issue details in a press release to the technical and engineering institutional press.
Presentation: The medal and certificate will be awarded at the NDT Annual Conference, though another appropriate Institute event may be chosen if necessary.
Committee: NDT Sub-Committee.
Winners
2023 winners: Sam Hurrell, Professor Peter Charlton, Dr Stephen Mosey, Dr Owen Rees-Lloyd and Dr Richard Lewis
The recipients of the John Grimwade Medal for 2023 are Sam Hurrell, Professor Peter Charlton, Dr Stephen Mosey,
Dr Owen Rees-Lloyd and Dr Richard Lewis for their paper, titled: ‘Study on the steering capability of a meander-line coil EMAT’,
which was published in Insight, Vol 65, No 2, pp 95-102, February 2023 (DOI: 10.1784/insi.2023.65.2.95).
Sam Hurrell is a Project Engineer at TWI Technology Centre (Wales), focusing on robotic deployment of ultrasonic and electromagnetic non-destructive testing (NDT) systems. Having previously studied mechanical engineering at Cardiff University, he is currently in the submission phase of his PhD, titled: ‘Multi-angle beam generation and steering via meander-line coil EMATs’, at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. His professional interests include product design, computer-aided design (CAD)modelling and robotic automation and these skills have been used by TWI for the nuclear, rail and oil & gas sectors.
Professor Peter Charlton is currently Professor in Applied NDT at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He has 35 years of industrial and academic experience in the research and development of advanced automated electromagnetic and ultrasonic NDT imaging systems for the petrochem
ical, power generation and aerospace industries. In 1995, he was awarded his PhD, titled: ‘A theoretical and experimental study of the magnetic flux leakage method for the analysis of corrosion defects in carbon steel plate’. He is responsible for engagement with key industrial partners and both PhD and MSc research supervision within the School of Engineering.
Dr Stephen Mosey is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Computing at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He has over 20 years’ industrial and academic experience in the development of advanced ultrasonic imaging equipment for NDT inspection applications in oil & gas, nuclear, aerospace, manufacturing and rail. In 2013, he gained a doctorate in signal and image processing for NDT (resolution enhancement of B-mode ultrasound images) with the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
Dr Owen Rees-Lloyd is currently a Senior Project Engineer at TWI, working on a wide range of projects within NDT. In 2024, he gained a doctorate focused on electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs) for NDT, titled: ‘Velocity effects on the generation of Rayleigh waves using EMATs’, with the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Working primarily in ultrasonic and electromagnetic inspections, Owen has delivered projects across a range of industry sectors, at all stages of maturity, including inspection system design and standardisation of inspection methods, through to the deployment and management of site inspections of assets.
Dr Richard Lewis joined TWI in 2010 in a technical position having previously worked in both high-value
manufacturing and latterly railway research. Richard has delivered projects across a b
road array of industrial applications, specialising in the development and practical implementation of NDT solutions. He is currently an Expert Professional for Advanced NDT and is responsible for the business development and project management for TWI’s NDT Group, delivering a portfolio of direct industry and collaborative research projects covering the broad subject of NDT and evaluation. Richard holds a PhD in railway systems and CSWIP Level 2 certificates in NDT inspection.
Past winners:1980 Mr S I Ibrahim and Mr V N Whittaker1981 Mr D A W Pullen1982 Mr R F Lumb
1983 Dr J M Farley and Mr J L Thomson1984 Mr A N Robinson, Mr P Nolan and Mr G A Raine1985 Mr C N Owston
1986 Dr D N Shackleton1987 Dr J Ogilvy1988 Dr P Highmore and Dr K A Short1989 Dr G A Georgiou1990 Dr P A Cawley
1991 Dr A McNab1992 Dr J R Rudlin and Dr L C Wolstenholme
1993 Prof J H Bungey
1994 Dr F A Wedgwood
1995 Mr R A Smith
1996 Dr A McNab and Dr A Cochran
1997 Prof G Hayward, Mr R Banks and Mr R Farlow
1998 Prof G Hayward and Mr P Reynolds
1999 Dr A Khalid
2000 Dr B W Drinkwater, Dr A M Robinson and Dr R J Freemantle
2001 Mr R A Smith and Dr G R Hugo
2002 Dr S Dixon, Dr C Edwards and Prof S B Palmer
2003 Dr L L Morgan, Mr P Nolan, Mr A Kirkham and Mr R Wilkinson
2004 Dr E A Birt, Mr L D Jones, Mr R A Smith and Prof C B Scruby
2005 Dr A Sophian, Dr R S Edwards, Prof G-Y Tian, Dr S Dixon, Dr D Topp and Dr M Smith
2006 Mrs A Whittle
2007 Prof P Cawley
2008 Dr L Nelson
2009 Dr R A Smith
2010 Mr C Lane
2011 Prof D P Almond
2012 Prof P Cawley
2013 Prof D Mery
2014 Prof P Cawley, Dr N Brierley and Dr T Tippetts
2015 Dr C Mineo, Prof S G Pierce, Mr B Wright, Prof I Cooper and Dr P I Nicholson
2016 Dr Chris Ward and Dr Colin Brett
2017 Professor Peter Charlton, Dr Stephen Mosey, Dr Miles Weston and Dr Mark Sutcliffe
2018 Dr Colin R Brett, Dr David A Gunn, Dr Ben A J Dashwood, Simon J Holyoake and Dr Paul B Wilkinson
2019 Dr David A Gunn, Simon J Holyoake, Dr Ben A J Dashwood, Dr Paul B Wilkinson,
Dr Colin R Brett, Humphrey C Wallis, Wayne Leman and Professor John G Rees
2020 Dr Tomasz Pialucha, Dr Brian Pavlakovic, Dr David Alleyne and Professor Peter Cawley
2021 Dr Stewart Haslinger, Professor Michael Lowe, Professor Richard Craster, Dr Peter Huthwaite and Dr Fan Shi
2022 Ross Hanna, Dr Mark Sutcliffe, Professor Peter Charlton and Dr Stephen Mosey
Details of publications awards can be found here.
Details of all Institute awards can be found here.
