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CPACT Malcolm McIvor Prize 2025

08-04-2025

Malcolm McIvor was one of the key people in ICI who helped establish CPACT in 1997 and played a prominent role in PhD supervision during the early stages of CPACT’s activities.

Malcolm enjoyed his engagement with CPACT and has generously endowed a prize that he wished to be awarded annually. The nominee should be a registered PhD student at a CPACT University or an early career researcher (within 3 years of their PhD) in any CPACT Industry, Institute or University member organisation.

The prize will seek to recognise an individual’s excellence in terms of academic achievement, creative thinking or engagement between academia and industry. The value of the prize will be £1,000.

The representatives of the CPACT universities and member companies are now invited to nominate candidates for the 2025 award following the  Guidelines for Malcolm McIvor CPACT Prize.pdf  Nominations should be sent to Natalie Kerr (natalie.kerr@strath.ac.uk) as pdf attachment by Friday 30th May 2025. The decision will be announced in July 2025.

The selection panel will be chaired by the Chair of CPACT and a committee selected by the Chair and drawn from the membership of the Industrial Management Board. The selection panel will include academic and industrial members.