All of the postgraduate research prizes and bursaries are evaluated annually by the Postgraduate Studies Committee in Physics and awarded on the recommendation of the chair of the Board of Studies in Physics. There are currently four three (non-doctoral) Postgraduate prizes and two Doctoral Prizes that students can be nominated for as long as they meet the criteria detailed below. The currently available prizes are:
THE GRAHAM RUSSELL PRIZE will be awarded to a postgraduate student on the basis of outstanding overall performance in applied Physics. The prize is £100 and will normally be awarded to students for work in their final year of supervised study. Nominations are evaluated in May.
2022 winner - Alina Talmantaite (CMP)
THE KEITH NICHOLAS PRIZE will be awarded to a postgraduate student on the basis of outstanding overall performance in Physics. The prize is £100 and will normally be awarded to students for work in their final year of supervised study. Nominations are evaluated in May.
2022 winner - Qiuhan He (ASTRO)
THE ELLA BRYANT PRIZE will be awarded to a postgraduate student on the basis of outstanding performance and citizenship. The prize is £100 and will normally be awarded to students at the end of their first year of supervised study. Nomination are evaluated in October.
2021 winner - Ryan Griffiths (CfAI)
2022 winner - Ansh Bhatnagar (IPPP)
THE 2ND YEAR PHYSICS PRIZE will be awarded to a postgraduate student on the basis of outstanding performance and citizenship. The prize is £100 and will normally be awarded to students at the end of their second year of supervised study. Nomination are evaluated in October.
THE ALAN MARTIN DOCTORAL PRIZE (formerly the Physics PhD Thesis Prize) will be awarded to a postgraduate student for the best Ph.D. thesis in Physics. The award is based on the recommendation by the supervisor and the examiner reports of the Ph.D. thesis and viva, which must have been completed. The prize is worth £1000. Nominations are evaluated in May.
2022 winners - Liam Gallagher (QLM) and Thomas Hicken (CMP)
THE WINTON DOCTORAL PRIZE IN PHYSICS will be awarded to a postgraduate student for the best Ph.D. thesis in Physics using computational methods. The award is based on the recommendation by the supervisor and the examiner reports of the Ph.D. thesis and viva, which must have been completed. The prize is worth £1000. Nominations are evaluated in May.
2022 winner - Ugne Dudzeviciute (ASTRO)
THE WINTON MSc PRIZE IN PHYSICS will be awarded by the Board of Examiners for the MSc in Particles, Strings and Cosmology to the student who has achieved the highest overall mean weighted module marks. The prize is worth £500 and will be awarded in October following the meeting of the Board of Examiners.
THE WINTON POSTER PRIZE IN PHYSICS, (£150 for first place and £75 for two runners-up) will be awarded for posters that have normally been presented by the student at an academic conference (although posters are also welcomed that have been presented at industrial or outreach events) within the previous 12 months. The competition is open to all postgraduate students in Physics with posters being displayed and judged at an event each year.
2022 Winners
THE ARTHUR BROWNE MScR BURSARY, the bursary comprises an award of £6,000 to a student pursuing a Research MSc degree in the Physics Department. The funds are expected to be used to cover fees and course or living costs (including research-based travel). Applications are evaluated in October.
2021 winner - Margarita Luna-Garcia (ASTRO)
2022 winners - Alex Brook (ASTRO) and Dakshesh Kololgi (ASTRO)
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