Testimonial – BGA Fund Award
The BGA Fund Award (link HERE) allows the BGA to provide financial assistance to individual BGA members for further study or advancement of their career in technical subjects.
Applicants are invited to apply for funds of up to £1,000 for studies which will support or advance their geotechnical career.
Testimonial by Shengjie Ma
The generous BGA fund award helped me attend the 8th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (8ICEGE) that took place in Osaka, Japan, on 7-10 May, 2024. The 8ICEGE offered an outstanding technical program on a range of earthquake geotechnical engineering topics. I presented my recent research titled “Layered System Response Effects of Liquefiable Deposits” at this conference. I received useful and critical feedback on my work during the subsequent discussion and was able to interact with other world-leading research groups, both in academia and industry around the world. This helped me develop my research communication skills and build my professional network internationally. Additionally, at this conference, I also learnt a lot of liquefaction assessment methods to estimate the severity of surficial manifestations caused by earthquake, which is one of the most controversial, complex, and difficult topics in the field of geotechnical earthquake engineering.
I am very grateful to the BGA for recognising my work and for the valuable opportunity to attend the international conference 8ICEGE. The assistance the BGA provided was vital in helping me attend this conference and present my current research work.
