Professional Standards Directorate
Director : Alex Rankine
The Professional Standards Directorate ( PSD ) oversees the setting and maintenance of the professional standards required for membership and professional recognition . Our four Committees have continued with their routine work throughout the pandemic their roles being compatible with remote working . PSD is the interface with The Radiation Protection Council ( RPC ) and the Registration Approval Committee ( RAC ) assesses applications for professional registration against its standards and also audits registrants ' CPD records . The first IRadP registration was achieved towards the end of the year and the first TechRadP application received . Qualifications and Professional Standards Committee ( QPSC ) continues to oversee the standards for Professional Registration and membership and has been working on other projects as outlined below . Membership applications are assessed by Membership Committee ( MemCom ) and Awards and Sponsorship Committee ( ASC ) continues in its role of assisting and encouraging members in their professional development .
Now that the restrictions due to the pandemic are retreating , there are already signs that the number of applications for membership and professional registration is increasing . In the year ahead we will be working together with the Engagement Directorate to encourage a wider range of people in the profession to apply for membership with a focus on those at the more practical end of Radiation Protection and further widening the diversity of the current membership .
2021 Award Winners The 2020 Jack Martin Award for best oral presentation at the Annual Conference was won by Jen Angus ( UKAEA ) for her paper entitled ' Radiation Protection for Fusion '. She was presented with her award by President Jim Thurston and they are picture in front of a picture of the JET tokamak .
The UK Young Professionals Award for best short presentation was awarded to Kathryn Ambrose ( Sellafield Ltd ) for her presentation entitled ' Doing Safety Sustainably '. Part of Kathryn ' s prize was to attend the 6th European IRPA Congress held in Budapest in June 2022 to represent the UK in the International Young Professionals Award competition .
Awards and Sponsorship Committee Chair : Lorna Galbraith , Secretary : Philip Clewer
The Awards and Sponsorship Committee oversees the Society ' s sponsorship schemes and organises the judging for prizes awarded for best presentation and poster at the Annual Conference , including the biennial Young Professionals Award . The pandemic resulted in fewer physical conferences and meetings in 2021 and consequently there was less call on funds for attendance . However , ASC was able to contribute to the Charter objectives by granting sponsorship for two overseas students attending post-graduate courses and , under the Educational Resources Development Scheme , for a project at the University of Bristol to develop a virtual reality system for use in Nuclear Engineering . This will be demonstrated at the SRP ' s Annual Conference in 2022 . We have recently welcomed Kinson Leonard to the committee , and we look forward to being able to award prizes for presentations at SRP ' s Annual Conference in 2022 , as well as supporting more conference and course attendance .
The Philip Nicholson Award for Best Poster Presentation was awarded to Jonathan Coleman-Zheng for his poster entitled ' Radioactive Lenses : An In-growing Issue ?'
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