Tom Scott has won the 2017 Davidge Award of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3). The Davidge Award is an annual prize for the best literature review by a PhD student on an innovative topic in ceramics. It is open to PhD students from any country and Tom will receive a certificate, £500, and his winning review on polycrystalline diamond (PCD) will be published in the IoM3 ceramics journal, Advances in Applied Ceramics.