Publications Awards

Institute Awards 

The Institute presents the following three publications awards:


The William Gardner Award

Award criteria

Purpose: For the best paper published in the Proceedings of the NDT Annual Conference by a person in the early stages of their career (subject to a satisfactory oral presentation). The person concerned (or one of them, if there is more than one author who qualifies) must also present the paper in person at the conference and, at the discretion of the session chair, answer any questions from the audience.

Details of the award: A certificate and a cash sum of £300. Also, free membership of the Institute at an appropriate grade for one year (subject to eligibility).  

Eligibility: The author of the paper must either be a student or within the first five years of full-time employment. He/she need not be a member of the Institute. In the case of multiple authorship, the early career-stage criterion must be satisfied by the first or second named author. If other authors also satisfy the criterion, the cash award is shared between all those authors satisfying the criterion, with each receiving a certificate. The free membership for one year is for the presenting author only. 

The proposal regarding the first or second named author aims to ensure that the person being presented with the award has made a substantial contribution to the paper. Otherwise, there is a risk that the award could go, for example, to a multi-author paper having just one early career-stage author who only played a minor role in the work being reported.

Frequency: Yearly, if a suitable candidate is deemed.

Nomination arrangements: The author of an abstract and full paper for the event can indicate they wish to be considered when submitting online.

Four members of the panel are to be appointed by the NDT Sub-Committee. Each judge will be invited to score the entries on a point scale of 0 to 3 and send the scores to Karen Cambridge, who will total the scores, and the entry receiving the most points will be declared the winner, subject to a satisfactory oral presentation.

Entries: Entries should be submitted by selecting the BPA option on Manuscript Central

Awarding arrangements: The award will be made mainly on the basis of the quality of the written paper, rather than on the quality of the oral presentation. This will allow the judging process to be completed before the conference. However, a check will be made to ensure that the quality of the oral presentation of the proposed winner is acceptable. Furthermore, candidates should demonstrate by the way they present the paper and answer any questions that they have made a substantial technical contribution to the paper.


Publicity:
 The award will be fully reported in Institute publications.

Presentation: The prize will normally be presented at the end of the NDT Annual Conference, though another appropriate Institute event may be chosen if necessary.

Committee: NDT Sub-Committee.

Winners

2024 winners: X Bai, F Zhu, Z Xia, T Meng and W Yin

The William Gardner Award for 2024 is awarded to X Bai, F Zhu, Z Xia, T Meng and W Yin from the University of Manchester, UK, for their paper, titled: 'Pose control and profile tracking with eddy current sensor and robotic arm for NDT applications'.

Past winners:
2002    Dr C Holmes
2003    Dr D Kleiner
2004    Dr C Holmes
2005    I Pettigrew
2006    D Caravaca
2008    A Sorsa
2009    C J Lane
2010    C Charlesworth
2011    Dr A Chertov
2012    Dr L Bai and E Escobar-Ruiz
2013    M Felice
2014    A McGilip
2015    J Rose
2016    F A Biruu, E Balaban, E Ahmad and M Missous
2017    D Zhang, K Burnham, L Mcdonald, C Macleod, G Dobie, R Summan and G Pierce
2018    Don Pieris
2019    J M Watson, C W Liang, J Sexton and M Missous
2020    No Award
2021    No Award
2022    Luka Bergbreiter
2023    M Valdivia Camacho, M Munko, F Cuthill, C Ó Bradaigh, E McCarthy and S Lopez Dubon


The John Grimwade Medal

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 petrochemical, 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 broad 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 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



The Ron Halmshaw Award

Award criteria

Purpose: The Ron Halmshaw Award is awarded for the best paper published in Insight in the preceding year, on any aspect of industrial radiography or radiology.

Details of the award:
 The prize is in the form of a certificate, a fixed award sum (£350) by cash from the Ron Halmshaw Fund and an invitation to the NDT Annual Conference Dinner with one night's accommodation. (In the case of non-members, part of the prize would be one year's membership.)

 

Eligibility: Anyone who has published a radiography or radiology paper in Insight will be considered.

 

Frequency: Yearly, if a suitable candidate is deemed.

 

Nomination arrangements: Automatic. All members of the Institute’s NDT Sub-Committee will be invited to submit nominations for the award.

 

Entries: Entries submitted (on a form to be made available by the Institute) will be sent to the Secretary of the Institute.

Awarding arrangements:
 In January each year, a memo is issued to the judging panel, containing voting instructions, marking sheet, shortlist of name(s), paper title, issue, month and page number and a voting form embossed with the Institute seal. The deadline for return to the Secretariat is 31 March. A judging panel of three is appointed by the NDT Sub-Committee.

 

In the interest of achieving fair, bias-free results, a system is operated that requires each panel member (any listed authors excepted) to vote anonymously to the Awards Secretary, who is responsible for totalling up the points awarded and notifying the winner to the Secretary.

 

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 prize will normally be presented at the NDT Annual Conference, though another appropriate Institute event may be chosen if necessary.

Committee: 
NDT Sub-Committee.


Winners


2023 winners:
 Dr Ross Hanna, Dr Mark Sutcliffe, David Carswell, Professor Peter Charlton and Dr Stephen Mosey

The 2023 winners are Dr Ross Hanna, Dr Mark Sutcliffe, David Carswell, Professor Peter Charlton and Dr Stephen Mosey for their paper, titled: ‘Volume integral model for algebraic image reconstruction and computed tomography’, which appeared in Insight, Vol 65, No 9, pp 484-491, September 2023 (DOI: 10.1784/insi.2023.65.9.484).

Dr Ross Hanna is currently a Software Developer at TWI Technology Centre (Wales), working on research and software for inspection, automation and deployment of various non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques. He has a PhD in algebraic reconstruction methods for complex-geometry components from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and his research interests include simulation and modelling, image processing, computer graphics and advanced radiography.

Dr Mark Sutcliffe is a Consultant (software) with TWI, specialising in the design, integration and delivery of NDT software solutions and algorithm development, including full matrix capture (FMC) and virtual source aperture (VSA). With over 20 years of industrial experience, he gained a doctorate in NDT (time-critical synthetic transmit aperture ultrasound imaging) with the University of Wales Trinity Saint David in 2015. Mark has developed and delivered NDT inspection systems for use in nuclear, aerospace and space exploration.

David Carswell has worked as a Software Developer at TWI for the past eight years. He works primarily on hardware integration (with robots, motion controllers and various NDT equipment) and algorithm development. He has a background in software development and computational engineering and has a PhD in the latter from the University of Wales, Swansea.

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 petrochemical, 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.

Past winners:
1995    J-E Holmström
1996    Dr E A Birt
1997    A B Wooldridge, Dr R K Chapman, Dr G A Georgiou, I Munns and G S Woodcock
1998    Dr S Ekinci, N Bas, M Aksu, A Yıldırım, M Bingöldag, T Kurtcebe, M Dogruöz, S Sarıçam and N Yılmaz
1999    A McNulty, J McNab and W K J Greenwood
2000    P R Vaidya
2001    R R da Silva, M H S Siqueira, L P Calôba and J M A Rebello
2002    A G Vincent, V Rebuffel, R Guillemaud, L Gerfault and P Y Coulon
2003    Dr G A Georgiou and Mr C R A Schneider
2004    S Smalley and G Wilson
2005    D Mery, D Hahn and N Hitschfeld
2006    Dr G-R Jaenisch, C Bellon, U Samadurau, M E Zhukovskiy and S V Podoliako
2007    V Rebuffel and J-M Dinten
2008    S F Burch and B A Stow
2009    Q Shen, J Gao and C Li
2010    K Arunmutha, P Arun Kumar, T Saravanan, J Philip, T Jayakumar and B Raj
2011    Dr S F Burch
2012    V Riffo and D Mery / J Guo, L Zeng, B Li and W Yu
2013    X Zhao, J-J Hu, T Yang and F Wang
2014    W Gao and Y H Hu
2015    Ge Lijing, Li Linsheng, Xie Jialong and Lin Guoxiang
2016    Changying Dang, Jianmin Gao, Zhao Wang, Yulin Xiao and Yalin Zhao
2017    Domingo Mery, Vladimir Riffo, Irene Zuccar and Christian Pieringer
2018    Stefano Ridolfi
2019    Johann Kastner, Christian Gusenbauer, Bernhard Plank, Jonathan Glinz and Sascha Senck
2020    Andreas Michael Stock, Gabriel Herl, Professor Dr Tomas Sauer and Professor Dr-Ing Jochen Hiller
2021    Mahdi Mirzapour, Amir Movafeghi and Effat Yahaghi
2022    Abdel Rahman Dakak, Valérie Kaftandjian, Philippe Duvauchelle and Patrick Bouvet

Details of all Institute awards can be found here.