Triple awards for Emily, Josh, and Max.

A fantastic triple accomplishment by people from BonLab at the 2023 Chemistry graduation celebrations at the University of Warwick.

From left to right. Emily Brogden, Josh Davies, Stefan Bon, and Max Campbell.

Emily Brodgen was the winner of a chemistry graduate teaching award, and Josh Davies was commended. These awards celebrate outstanding contributions to undergraduate laboratory teaching and demonstrating. Max Campbell won a chemistry students community building award, for his outstanding contributions to the Warwick Chemistry students’ community.

Prof. dr. ir. Stefan Bon says: “I am immensely proud of Emily, Josh, and Max. Not only do they do fantastic research in our team, they show that they also care and have tremendous talents and energy for the wider scientific community at Warwick. I am delighted their hard work and commitment has been recognized by the Chemistry Department in this years awards ceremony.”

Josh Davies wins a Warwick SEM Faculty Award for teaching

Josh Davies has won a postgraduate SEM Faculty Award at the Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence (WATE) 2023.

Josh said: “Much of my teaching is based in the teaching laboratories, where I have had the pleasure of teaching Year 1-3 UG students and several PGT courses. I have designed and delivered a series of workshops for the third-year Polymer and Colloid Science module and created a series of posters to communicate theory, practical skills, and assessment for use in UG labs. My teaching focuses on an enquiry-based approach to learning and creating an immersive style of delivery founded on clear communication of expectations, fostering a sense of the students being co-creators in their learning, which continuously receives positive feedback from students and teaching observations.”

Prof. dr. ir. Stefan Bon says: “This is fantastic. It is great to see that Josh’s enthusiasm for teaching has been recognised and awarded by the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine. I am very happy that the team at BonLab helps out and contributes to the teaching and training of students at Warwick University, especially in polymer and colloid science and engineering. Josh did an excellent job this academic year.”

Emily Brogden wins best graduate research seminar talk at IPCG 2023

Emily Brodgen has been awarded “best talk” at the Graduate Research Seminar (GRS) of the International Polymer Colloids Group (IPCG) conference held at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Emily said: “I really enjoyed the GRS preceeding the IPCG2023 meeting. It was great meeting all the participants and hearing their interesting research.”

Emily was given the opportunity to present her work at the main IPCG conference where she talked about hard-soft polymer colloid mixtures for waterborne linerless pressure sensitive adhesives.

Prof. dr. ir. Stefan Bon said: “ I am tremendously proud of Emily and I am delighted that her talents, commitment, and hard work have been recognised and awarded by the world top in our field of polymer colloids. It is a fantastic boost for the entire team at BonLab.”

We would like to thank the Oil & Colour Chemists’ Association (OCCA) for sponsoring Emily’s trip by awarding her a Surfex travel bursary.