Valerie Randle
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Valerie Randle is a materials engineer who specialised in electron backscatter diffraction, grain boundary engineering,[http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/Engineering/randlevalerie Swansea University] and has written a number of text books on the subject{{cite book|last1=Randle|first1=Valerie|last2=Engler|first2=Olaf|title=Introduction to texture analysis : macrotexture, microtexture and orientation mapping|date=2000|publisher=CRC Press|location=Boca Raton|isbn=978-9056992248|edition=Digital printing 2003}}{{cite book|last1=Randle|first1=Valerie|title=The role of the coincidence site lattice in grain boundary engineering|date=1996|publisher=Institute of Materials|location=London|isbn=9781861250063}} She was Welsh Woman of the Year in 1998 and in the same year was awarded the Rosenhain Award{{cite web|url=http://www.iom3.org/awards-archive#Rosenhain|title=Awards archive {{!}} IOM3|website=www.iom3.org|language=en|accessdate=28 September 2017}} for achievements in Materials Science by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.Shellie Nazarenus, [http://www.calit2.uci.edu/calit2-newsroom/itemdetail.aspx?cguid=cf121a29-8a7b-4a13-b49f-b38f77aa6526 Noted Scientist Shares Expertise], Calit2, University of California Irvine, November 13, 2008
In 2004 she was invited as a guest of HM the Queen to a luncheon at Buckingham Palace for the 'top 180 female achievers in the country'.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/mar/12/gender.monarchy|title=Power sharing at the palace}} From 2008 she has been included in Who's Who.{{cite web|title=Science: 'Who's who'?|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/3317180/Science-Whos-who.html|date=4 December 2007}} as part of increasing public recognition of scientists. She has made significant contributions in the field of materials engineering with over 150 indexed publications in the field.{{cite web|title=Scopus preview - Scopus - Author details (Rändle, Valerie)|url=https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=22942038800|website=www.scopus.com|accessdate=28 September 2017}}
Career
Randle entered Cardiff University at the age of 27 to study chemistry, and found that the metallurgy module sparked her interest in materials. She then did a PhD and eventually was awarded a Royal Society Research Fellowship which took her to Swansea University in 1992.
In 1999, she was made a professor in the Department of Metals Engineering,{{cite web|url=https://www.theengineer.co.uk/issues/14-january-2000/people-19/|title=PEOPLE - What next for woman of the year?|website=The Engineer|date=15 January 2000|access-date=27 September 2017}} working within the field of microstructure of materials at Swansea University. Randle became Head of the Materials Research Centre in 2007–2009. She has published some 370 research papers and five textbooks, and given many invited lectures all over the world.
After twenty-five years at Swansea University, she retired in 2013.
As Valerie Norris she has published two novels, In the Long Run and The April Letters with Cambria Publishing.{{Cite web |title=About — Valerie Norris — Author |url=https://norriswriting.com/about |access-date=2023-11-22 |website=Valerie Norris |language=en-GB}}
Personal life
Valerie Randle was born in 1953 and has lived in Wales since she moved there when she was eighteen. Randle left school when was sixteen, got married at eighteen and had two children by the age of twenty. In 2013, at age sixty, she chose to take early retirement.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}
Publications
- The Measurement of Grain Boundary Geometry (Microscopy in Materials Science), 1993.
- Grain Boundary Geometry in Polycrystals, 1993.
- Atlas of Backscattering Kikuchi Diffraction Patterns, 1994.
- The Role of the Coincidence Site Lattice in Grain Boundary Engineering, 1996.
- Introduction to Texture Analysis: Macrotexture, Microtexture and Orientation Mapping, 2000, 2nd edn 2009.
- Microtexture Determination and its Applications, 1992, 2nd edn 2003.
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Category:Alumni of Cardiff University
Category:Academics of Swansea University
Category:20th-century Welsh women scientists
Category:20th-century Welsh scientists