This prize is up for grabs if you present a paper in our New Researchers Forum at our annual conference. You can win £250 + free student SGT membership for the year for the best presentation (clarity, technical content) as voted by the Basic Science Committee. What you got to lose ask your tutor about attending. Turn up, learn, have fun and have a go for that £250
2025 Winner Daniel Bradley University of Nottingham
Development of a structural model of strontium doped bio-phosphates for the interrogation of medium-range order
2024 the Annual Conference will be part of a larger international conference, and so the Paul Award will become part of a larger set of student prizes, for one year only.
2023 Winner
Aine Black University of Liverpool
Investigating the Effect of Lithium Concentration on Radiation Damage in UK Nuclear Waste Base Glasses using NMR and EPR Spectroscopy 
2022 PNCS no award
2021 Covid no award
2020 Covid no award
2019 Winner
Katrina Love, Sheffield Hallam University
Phosphate solubility and impacts on properties of radioactive waste glasses for the Hanford site, USA
Previous Winners
2018 Alex Scrimshire, Sheffield Hallam University
Structural role of iron in nepheline-based aluminosilicates for nuclear waste applications
2017 Ray-Jay Jeng,Tokyo Institute of Technology
Determination of the critical forming condition for ultra-thin tellurite glass film using glass blowing technique
2016-Not awarded due to nature of the conference
2015 – Laura Swansbury, University of Kent
Molecular dynamics modelling of ZnCl2 glass
2014 – Serena Panighello Dept. of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, University of Venice and National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana
Application of Laser Ablation ICP-MS depth profiling methods for the study of African glass beads
2013 – Annelore Blomme, KU Leuven
Fingerprinting first millennium B.C. glass artefacts by Sr and Nd isotopic analysis
2012 – James Stevens, University of Sheffield
Understanding the effects of refractory spinel phases on HLW glass processing
2011 – Oliver Alderman, University of Warwick
Local Structure in Pb2+-Containing Silicate and Germanate Glasses
2010 – Dean Whittaker, University of Bath
Working under pressure with neutron diffraction: GoO2, B2O3 and SiO2 at pressures up to 18 Gpa
2009 – Mr Jeremy Soulié, Clermont Université
Influence of Magnesium on the physico-chemistry at bioactive glass / biological medium interface studied by Micro-PIXE
2008 – Robert Moss, University of Kent
X-ray and neutron diffraction in symbiosis: getting the most out of experimental data
2007 – Emma Barney,University of Warwick
Sodium tellurite glasses and the related meta stable crystal phases