IOP Technician Award 2023 – Nominations Closing Soon!
The IOP Technician Award enables the community to recognise and celebrate the skills and experience of technicians and their contribution to physics.
With the aim of raising the professional status of technicians, the IOP Technician Award highlights the diverse role of technicians in education, research and industry.
The winner receives a prize of £1,000, a trophy and a certificate presented at the IOP annual awards dinner. Those in the secondary school category will receive an additional £1,000 prize for their school or department.
The IOP are accepting nominations for the Technician Award in the following categories:
secondary schools
further education and higher education
national research facilities
business
teams (teams can apply only for this category)
Eligibility
Eligible technicians will work in a diverse range of organisations across the UK and Ireland – schools, colleges, universities, research institutions, NHS, defence or industry. They may, for example, plan and prepare teaching experiments, build and maintain infrastructure and laboratory equipment and software to support research and innovation, or install manufacturing systems or process control instrumentation.
Please email awards@iop.org if you have any questions about the awards or your submission.