The IET Healthcare Technologies Network is keen to encourage and support the work and research of academics and newly qualified professionals in healthcare, medical and biomedical engineering arenas.
The network presents annual prizes through a number of awards.
The network presents annual prizes through a number of awards.
The Healthcare Technologies Student And Early Career Awards 2021 are now closed.
IET William James Award
The award is presented to encourage, support and recognise outstanding work of PhD students demonstrating a high level of commitment and advanced understanding of Biomedical Engineering.
IET Dennis Hill Award
The Dennis Hill prize is awarded annually to the student on an MEng or MSc programme who has, during the past year, submitted the best final year project dissertation in the general field of Biomedical Engineering and cognate subjects (including Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Physics, Healthcare Technologies and Health Informatics).
IET J.A Lodge Award
The J. A. Lodge Award is open to all Electronic or Electrical Engineers working at the early stage of their careers in the field of research and development within Biomedical Engineering. For applicants in universities, this corresponds to being in the final year of a PhD programme, or having recently completed their PhD (PhD degree not conferred before January 2010). For applicants in industry, this corresponds to being within ten years of graduating from their last degree (PhD degree not conferred before January 2005).
Congratulations to our 2021 winners!:
IET Dennis Hill Award - Fraser Young, Northumbria University
Paper: Algorithm Development for IoT-based Running Technology
IET William James Award - Andrew Creagh, University of Oxford
Paper: Smartphone-based remote assessment of upper extremity function for multiple sclerosis
using the Draw a Shape Test
IET William James Award - Dr Sophie Morse, Imperial College London
Paper: Rapid Short-pulse Ultrasound Delivers Drugs Uniformly across the Murine Blood-Brain Barrier
with Negligible Disruption
IET J.A.Lodge Award - Dr Lei Lu, University of Oxford
Paper: Evaluating Rehabilitation Progress Using Motion Features Identified by Machine Learning
More information on all our previous winners can be found online.
You can watch our award winners present their work at our virtual Annual Healthcare Lecture taking place on 8th December 2021. Register here.