The IOA Medals and Awards Lunch was held on Wednesday 19 April 2023 at the Oval.
It was held so that we could catch up on all the awards that the IOA couldn’t present during the pandemic.
List of awards presented in April 2023:
Best IOA Diploma Performance 2019 – Irene Rodriques
Best IOA Diploma Performance 2022 – Daniel Robinson
The Award for Distinguished Services to the Institute
2020 – Hilary Notley
2023 – Chris Barlow
2023 – Jim Griffiths (citation)
The Award for Distinguished Services to the Institute was introduced so that the Institute could publicly acknowledge the debt owed to individual members who have provided sustained assistance over the years in some way with the running of the Institute. The award is a simple memento with a written citation and is preferably to be presented at a conference. There is no time scale or limit on the numbers of this award.
Award for Promoting Acoustics to the Public 2022 – Matt Muirhead
The Award for Promoting Acoustics to the Public has been created to encourage activity that generates greater awareness of the importance of acoustics outside the acoustics' fraternity, that is to people without acoustical expertise. The award may recognise either a single piece of outstanding work or sustained long-term activity. The award is made every 2 years. Examples of work would include: Writing articles for the non-acoustic press; Authoring web pages; demonstrations and lectures; Work with schools to promote acoustics; media work on TV or radio; Exhibitions. The Institute would particularly welcome applications which demonstrate a pro-active engagement with the public; instances where the applicants have initiated and developed new activities, rather than simply responding to opportunities provided by others. Innovative and ground-breaking engagements are particularly welcome. Nominations can be for individuals, charitable organisations or companies. In the case of nominations for companies, it is necessary to show that the public engagement has gone above and beyond what might be expected to be the usual activities of a company. An award will only be made in any given year to a worthy recipient. Nominations may be made by third parties or by the individual concerned, in either case with documented evidence of the work involved. The award itself is an engraved glass trophy, which together with a written citation will normally be presented at an Institute conference. The deadline for nominations for 2024 is 30 October 2023.
The Peter Lord Award – Brimelow McSweeney Architects, Sound Advice & Cahill Design Consultants (citation)
The Peter Lord Award is awarded annually for a building, project or product that showcases outstanding or innovative acoustic design, or outstanding acoustic implementation. It will be presented to the team or individual responsible for the acoustic design or acoustic aspects of the project. The award will consist of a trophy and certificate for the winning team or individual. Should they wish to recognise their award by means of a public display, e.g. by mounting a plaque on the winning construction/project – the design and size must be subject to approval by the IOA. Peter Lord, a former IOA President who died in 2012, was a hugely influential figure in UK acoustics, being a driving force behind the setting up of the Institute of Acoustics, the founder of the Applied Acoustics department at the University of Salford and the first editor-in-chief of Applied Acoustics. Nominations for this award may be submitted at any time throughout the year, with a deadline of 31st October for consideration in being awarded in the following year. All of sufficient merit in meeting the criteria will be awarded.
Tyndall Medal 2023 – Joshua Meggitt (citation)
The Tyndall Medal is awarded biannually to a UK acoustician, preferably under the age of 40, for achievement and services in the field of acoustics. John Tyndall ( 1820-1893) preceded Rayleigh as the Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institute. He investigated the acoustic properties of the atmosphere and though a distinguished experimental physicist, he is remembered primarily as one of the world's most brilliant scientific lecturers. The deadline for nominations for 2025 is 31st October 2024.
Rayleigh Medal 2022 – Jian Kang (citation)
Rayleigh Medal 2023 – Stephen Stansfeld (citation)
The Rayleigh Medal is the Institute of Acoustics' premier award, awarded without regard to age to persons of undoubted renown for outstanding contributions to acoustics. The medal is named after John William Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh (1842-1919), a very versatile physicist who conducted both experimental and theoretical research in virtually every branch of the subject. A graduate, fellow and eventually Chancellor of Cambridge University, he was a fellow and president of the Royal Society. His book The Theory of Sound remains a landmark text in the development of acoustics. The deadline for nominations for 2024 is 31st October 2023.
Additional images will be available shortly, and a full report will appear in the next issue of the IOA's Acoustics Bulletin.
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