Student bursaries

The UKNC awards a number of travel grants to help with the costs of presenting papers at conferences or for research-related travels. For more information on how to apply please contact Dr Angela Dyson.

  1. The Phil Dawson travel award is a competitive award to provide funds towards attendance at a conference for current PhD students. Unsuccessful applicants for the Phil Dawson bursary will automatically be considered for the standard travel bursary.
    Amount: £1,000
    To apply, send your curriculum vitae and conference abstract to Dr Angela Dyson before 1 September 2023.
  2. Standard bursaries are aimed at current PhD students to help with the cost of attending a conference.
    Amount: £500
    To apply, send conference abstract to Dr Angela Dyson. This call has no closing date

Past conference reports

Conference reports from previous award winners are available below.

14th International Conference of Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-13), Fukuoka, Japan, 12-17 Nov 2023

European Materials Research Society 2023 Fall Meeting, Warsaw, Poland, 18-21 Sept 2023

SPIE Photonics West 2023, San Francisco, USA, 28 Jan-4 Feb 2023

  • Daniel Hunter, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde

4th International Workshop on Gallium Oxide and related materials (IWGO2022), Nagono, Japan, 23-27 Oct 2022

  • David Nicol, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde

11th International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors (IWN 2020), Berlin, Germany, 9-14 Nov 2022

  • Abhiram Gundimeda, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
  • Yidi Yin, Department of Electronics & Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield
  • Maruf Sarkar, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge

European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Fall Meeting 2022, Warsaw, Poland, 19-22 Sept 2022

UK Semiconductors conferene 2022, Sheffield, UK, 6-7 July 2022

  • Yihong Ji, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge

13th International Conference of Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-13), Bellevue, Washington, US, 7-12 July 2019

  • Xiaoyan Tang, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester
  • Boning Ding, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
  • Pavlos Bozinakis, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde

43rd Workshop on Compound Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits (WOCSDICE), Cabourg, France, 17-19 June 2019

  • Feiyuan Yang, Centre for Device Thermography and Reliability (CDTR), University of Bristol

Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2019 (SBDD XXIV), Belgium, 13-15 Mar 2019

10th International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors (IWN 2018), Kanazawa, Japan, 11-16 Nov 2018

11th International Symposium on Semiconductor Light Emitting Devices (ISSLED 2017), 8-12 Oct 2017

12th International Conference of Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-12), Strasbourg, 24-28 Jul 2017

  • Claudius Kocher, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
  • George Christian, School of Physics and Astronomy. Photon Science Institute, University of Manchester,

SPIE Microtechnologies 2017, Barcelona, Spain, 8-10 May 2017

  • Chris Bryce, Department of Physics, SUPA, University of Strathclyde

9th International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors (IWN 2016), Orlando, Florida, 2-7 Oct 2016

  • Lok Yi Lee, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
  • Tong Wang, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
  • Sheng Jiang, University of Sheffield

Advanced Architectures in Photonics, Mykonos, Greece, 26-29 Sept 2016

  • John Jarman, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge

28th IEEE Photonics Conference, Reston, Virginia, 4-8 Oct 2015

  • Katherine Rae, Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde

11th International Conference of Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-11), Beijing, 30 Aug – 4 Sep 2015

  • Xiang Yu, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield
  • Helen Springbett, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
  • William Waller, Department of Physics, University of Bristol

IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting, Nassau, 13-15 Jul 2015

57th Electronic Materials Conference, Columbus, 24-26 Jun 2015

  • David Thomson, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde

SPIE Photonics West 2015, San Francisco, 7-12 Feb 2015

  • Ionut Girgel, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath

8th International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductor (IWN), Wrocław, 24-29 Aug 2014

  • Fabien Massabuau, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
  • Martin Shaw Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde
  • Leo Tsui, Department of Materials, Imperial College London

SPIE Optics & Photonics 2014, San Diego, 17-21 Aug 2014

  • Jonathan Benton, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield

15th International Conference on the Physics of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures, Montpellier, 9-13 Jun 2014

  • Tim Puchtler, Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride, University of Cambridge

26th IEEE Photonics Conference, Seattle, 8-12 Sept 2013

10th International Conference of Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-10), Washington DC, 25-30 Aug 2013

  • Roland Baranyai, Department of Physics, University of Bristol
  • Raphael Brown, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow
  • Chris Lewins, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Bath
  • Fabien Massabuau, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
  • Ross Powell, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham
  • Rick Smith, Department of Electronic and Engineering Engineering, University of Sheffield
  • Richard Webster, Department of Physics, University of Bristol

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