{"id":1301,"date":"2014-11-27T10:39:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T10:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2014-12-11T16:20:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T16:20:56","slug":"phd-student-tim-hughes-receives-multiple-awards-at-bga-nsgg-and-hubnet-smart-grids-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/2014\/11\/phd-student-tim-hughes-receives-multiple-awards-at-bga-nsgg-and-hubnet-smart-grids-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Student Tim Hughes receives multiple awards at BGA, NSGG, and HubNet Smart grids conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"

PhD Student\u00a0Tim Hughes<\/a>, from the Geology and Geophysics Research group, has\u00a0received multiple awards at recent conferences around the UK; including best presentations at the\u00a0British Geophysical Association<\/a>\u00a0(BGA) Postgraduate Research Progress Meeting \u00a0 and\u00a0Near Surface Geophysics Group<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0(NSGG) graduate symposium\u00a0in May, where he also recieved the “Best Paper” prize following his talk\u00a0 the Marine Geophysics session entitled Environmental Controls on the Thermal Performance of High Voltage Cables under the Seafloor. More recently, Tim was awarded the best poster prize at the\u00a0HubNet Smartgrids Symposium 2014<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0by the conference chair, Prof. Tim Green from Imperial College London (pictured with him\u00a0on the HubNet website). The prize was \u00a350 worth of Amazon vouchers and box of chocolates.\u00a0This year’s meeting was hosted by the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow on the 9th and 10th of September. Tim\u00a0attended\u00a0the conference with\u00a0some colleagues based at the\u00a0Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory<\/a>, on Highfield campus.<\/p>\n

Tim, a postgraduate researcher studying\u00a0environmental Controls on the State of HV Cables under the Seafloor,<\/a>\u00a0is funded through HubNet (which is itself is funded by EPSRC). Hubnet \u00a0runs an electrical engineering themed symposium every year that brings together researchers from departments all around the country. Usually, there are a series of talks given by established academics and industry representatives interspersed with a couple of poster sessions where HubNet funded PhD students and post-docs can showcase their work.<\/p>\n

Tim says:<\/p>\n

“A wide variety of research was represented on all aspects of electrical energy supply, from small scale house-to-house distribution, to the large, bulk transfer cable systems that are the focus of my research. It was interesting to put my research into context from a more general electrical engineering perspective; as I don’t often get a chance to discuss this aspect of my work being based at the NOCS!”<\/p>\n

The aim of my research is to examine how heat from submarine high voltage cables is dissipated in the marine environment, and how the properties of the sediment in which the cables are buried affects the nature of this heat flow. This work employs\u00a0finite element methods to simulate heat flow in and around high voltage cables buried specifically under the seafloor.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PhD Student\u00a0Tim Hughes, from the Geology and Geophysics Research group, has\u00a0received multiple awards at recent conferences around the UK; including best presentations at the\u00a0British Geophysical Association\u00a0(BGA) Postgraduate Research Progress Meeting \u00a0 and\u00a0Near Surface Geophysics Group\u00a0\u00a0(NSGG) graduate symposium\u00a0in May, where he also recieved the “Best Paper” prize following his talk\u00a0 the Marine Geophysics session entitled Environmental… Read More PhD Student Tim Hughes receives multiple awards at BGA, NSGG, and HubNet Smart grids conferences<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64890,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[493988,333104,4217,50],"tags":[200712,494052,430776],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-roll","category-conferences","category-news","category-people","tag-award","tag-high-voltage-cables","tag-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}