An international perspective on the work of the Newman fund.

Abstract

Since 2007 London South Bank University has been involved with the Newman Fund through their Masters programe in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics. This link has lead to closer relations between London South Bank University and the Acoustical Society of America starting with a Schultz Grant award, followed by attendance at the fourth Concert Hall Research Group Summer Institute, and recently in Dr. Dance becoming the first international member of Newman committee. Each year the best dissertation has been submitted to the Newman committee, and fortunately nearly every year one of our acoustic students has been awarded the Newman medal. The Acoustics Group has used the Newman fund to encourage the award-winning students to go on to our Ph.D. research programe. The most effective inducement has been found to be sending the prospective Ph.D. student to an international conference, where a research paper is presented based on their Masters dissertation. Case studies of the awarding winning projects are briefly outlined, emphasizing the link between the Masters dissertation and the subsequent student selected Ph.D. topic.