The John Grimwade Medal
Award for BINDT members, Publications Award
Award criteria
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
2024 winners: Dr Oksana Trushkevych and Professor Steve Dixon
The recipients of the John Grimwade Medal for 2024 are Dr Oksana Trushkevych and Professor Steve Dixon for their paper, titled: ‘Soft magnetostrictive patches for guided wave ultrasonics using Wiedemann effect-based MPTs and EMATs’, which was published in Insight, Vol 66, No 1, pp 12-18, January 2024 (DOI: 10.1784/insi.2024.66.1.12).
Dr Oksana Trushkevych is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick, where
she has worked on ultrasound sensing, non-destructive testing (NDT) and evaluation since 2011. She received a PhD in engineering from the University of Cambridge in 2006 and held research positions at Cambridge (with Wolfson College junior research fellowship) and at Warwick in physics and engineering. Her research interests cover ultrasound visualisation, guided wave inspection and electromagnetic and magnetostrictive ultrasonic transducers for NDT and structural health monitoring in thick steel plates and concrete, with applications across the tunnelling, energy and transport sectors. Oksana is a member of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT)’s Civil Engineering NDT Working Group and serves on the academic board of the Research Centre for Non-Destructive Evaluation (RCNDE). She is also a member of the industry-led ‘NDE for Fusion’ working group.
Oksana leads the School of Engineering’s involvement in the Midlands Nuclear Consortium and is Deputy Director of the Warwick Centre for Industrial Ultrasonics. She regularly publishes work in leading academic journals and is active in outreach. Oksana is a Fellow of the Warwick Institute of Engagement (WIE) and is the Widening Participation and Outreach lead for the School of Engineering.
Professor Steve Dixon has been working in the area of NDT since 1991, and most of his research has focused on
ultrasonic and eddy current techniques, particularly around the application of electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs) to industry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) and was awarded BINDT’s Roy Sharpe Prize in 2017 and the John Grimwade Medal in 2002 and 2005. Steve has held funded research fellowships from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), RAEng and the Royal Society and he is currently the Director of the Centre for Industrial Ultrasonics at the University of Warwick, where he is also the Deputy Head of Physics and the Director of Research. He has worked with numerous companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to develop new instrumentation in the area of ultrasonics, and has created successful spin-out companies from his research, further optimising impact in multiple international industrial sectors, including ultrasonic flow measurement. Steve has published his work in leading research journals and conference presentations.
Past winners:
1980 Mr S I Ibrahim and Mr V N Whittaker
1981 Mr D A W Pullen
1982 Mr R F Lumb
1983 Dr J M Farley and Mr J L Thomson
1984 Mr A N Robinson, Mr P Nolan and Mr G A Raine
1985 Mr C N Owston
1986 Dr D N Shackleton
1987 Dr J Ogilvy
1988 Dr P Highmore and Dr K A Short
1989 Dr G A Georgiou
1990 Dr P A Cawley
1991 Dr A McNab
1992 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
1981 Mr D A W Pullen
1982 Mr R F Lumb
1983 Dr J M Farley and Mr J L Thomson
1984 Mr A N Robinson, Mr P Nolan and Mr G A Raine
1985 Mr C N Owston
1986 Dr D N Shackleton
1987 Dr J Ogilvy
1988 Dr P Highmore and Dr K A Short
1989 Dr G A Georgiou
1990 Dr P A Cawley
1991 Dr A McNab
1992 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
