Davidge Award
The Davidge Award is an annual prize for the best literature review by a PhD student on an innovative topic in ceramics. All entries that are accepted after peer review will be published in the journal. The winning entry will receive a £500 prize, a certificate and their paper will be made free to access for the following year.
The award is run and judged by the Editors of Advances in Applied Ceramics: Structural, Functional and Bioceramics (AAC), the specialist ceramics journal of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), and is open to current PhD students studying for a materials science and engineering related qualification at any academic institution worldwide. The submission should be submitted during the PhD or within one year of completion.
The Award commemorates the distinguished contributions to the science and application of ceramics made by the late Roger Davidge (1936–97). During a career spent largely at AERE Harwell during the laboratory’s heyday, and also at Leeds and Oxford universities. He pioneered the introduction of fracture mechanics concepts to ceramics. His research in areas that included fracture, toughness, fatigue, thermal shock and the statistics of mechanical fracture made an outstanding contribution to knowledge on these subjects.
The deadline for the award is the 1st September of the year of the award. Entries made after this deadline will be considered for the following year.
For more information on the award and on how to submit, please view the ‘Davidge Award Guidelines and Submission Instructions’.
Browse the award-winning papers below.