The Richard Way Memorial Prize is a prestigious prize, awarded annually by UnICE3G, to celebrate the best PhD thesis aligned with the groups aims submitted in that year. Past winners of the prize have gone on to illustrious careers in both academia and industry. The prize consists of a financial award and a certificate.

Richard Way studied at the University of Cambridge before completing his PhD at the University of Bath in 1974 followed by PostDoctoral positions at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) where, amongst other things, he developed the ‘Whitehouse-Way’ Combustion Model, still used today. He sadly died in a climbing accident in the alps in 1980 the prize was set up in his memory shortly afterwards.

Supervisors and PhD examiners are encouraged to nominate suitable candidates for the prize to the UnICE3G secretary.

Some past winners of the Richard Way Memorial Prize are shown below.