- WW2: Father served in the Royal Air Force as ground crew for 617 "Dambusters" squadron, then in Palestine.
- 1963: Maternal grandparents, Lockwood and Florence (née Lloyd) Kershaw, move into one of the new Charles Roberts pre-fabricated fibreglass sandwich construction bungalows in Honley Square, Horbury.
- 1966: Lockwood Kershaw sews the footballs used in the 1966 World Cup competition.
- 1967: Mr McGuire says "There's a great future in plastics" in the film "The Graduate".
- 1968: Played Adam in the first revival of the Wakefield Mystery Plays.
- 1972: Composition "Intersection IV" broadcast at Glamorgan Summer School on Electronic Music courtyard session.
- 1974: Graduated with B.Sc. Applied Sciences (joint honours) Pure and Applied Chemistry with Polymer Science and Technology from UWIST (now Cardiff University).
- 1975: Projectionist for the UK premiere of Blake Edwards' film The Tamarind Seed at NUS Film Festival.
- 1976: Graduated with M.Sc. (CNAA) Molecular Science of Materials from Thames Polytechnic (now University of Greenwich).
- 1977: Research Assistant and research degree candidate on hybrid composites at Plymouth Polytechnic.
- 1982-1987: Sonar dome materials characterisation for MOD(Navy) at Royal Naval Engineering College.
- 1984: Awarded PhD for the thesis The mechanical properties of carbon fibre with glass fibre hybrid reinforced plastics at Plymouth Polytechnic (now University of Plymouth).
- 1984: An aircomb technique to produce thin layers of continuous unidirectional mixed fibre reinforcement presented at the BPF Reinforced Plastics Congress, pre-empting spread tow/thin-ply technologies by many years.
- 1987: Launch of the Advanced Composites Manufacturing Centre (ACMC) with David Short and Stephen Grove.
- 1987: Non-Destructive Testing of Fibre-Reinforced Composites volume 1 (edited by JS) published.
- 1988: Supervisor of Ian Chatting's final year project on the aircomb technique:
Ian's career included VP Technology at GKN Aerospace.
- 1988: Poisson's Ratios in Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastics with Peter Craig validating the Lemprière constraints for orthotropic materials.
- 1990: Non-Destructive Testing of Fibre-Reinforced Composites volume 2 (edited by JS) published.
- 1990: Course pathway tutor for BEng (honours) Composites Engineering:
title changed to Composite Materials Engineering ~1994, to Mechanical Engineering with Composites ~2007 and MEng (honours) available from 2012.
- 1991: Chairman of the 3rd International Conference on Automated Composites held in Den Haag (Netherlands).
- 1991-1995: Europe & rest-of-world (not USA) Editor for the Elsevier journal Composites Manufacturing.
- 1992: Ian Gatehouse, Graham Halstead, Paul Mackenzie and Richard Bland amongst 12 graduates from the BEng composites degree:
Ian is now Engineering and Technology Director – China Strategic Partnership at GKN Aerospace,
Graham subsequently developed the first street-legal car with more brake horse power than kg kerb weight Caparo Freestream T1 and is now Head of vehicle engineering at Gordon Murray Design,
Paul became Executive Director of McLaren Special Operations at McLaren Automotive Limited, then Chief Operating Officer at Princess Yachts.
Richard became a founder member and Director at Composite Integration Limited in 2002.
- 1992-1996: Bid co-ordinator and partner in FP3 SimRTM project with the european aerospace industry.
- 1993: A model for the effect of fibre clustering on the flow rate in resin transfer moulding
- 1994: Angela Newbury awarded PhD for An investigation into the applicability of NMR for cure monitoring of composites (SERC CASE/Oxford Instruments).
- 1995: Neil Pearce's undergraduate project published in Composites Manufacturing as The compressibility of a reinforcement fabric.
- 1996: Initial biography entry in Marquis Who's Who in the World.
- 1998: Awarded Post-Graduate Diploma in Education (Adult Education).
- 1998: Dimitris Katsanis, Chris Payne and Dylan Paul Phillips amongst 18 graduates from the BEng composites degree:
Dimitris subsequently became a primary innovator in the use of composites in Olympic and Commonwealth cycling competitions,
James is now Industrialisation Section Leader Composites CoE at AgustaWestland,
Chris is now Senior Project Manager at CT Engineering Group,
Dylan is now Head Of Design at hyperTunnel Limited.
- 1998: Microstructural characterisation of Fibre-Reinforced Composites (edited by JS) published.
- 1998: The compression response of fibre-reinforced plastic plates during manufacture by the resin infusion under flexible tooling method
describes the dynamic variation of composite thickness during the process.
- 1998: Chairman of the EPSRC Materials Networks Panel.
- 1999: Chairman of the 5th International Conference on Flow Processes in Composite Materials (FPCM-5) held in Plymouth.
- 2000: A new model for The bulk modulus of carbon fibers.
- 2000: Improving RTM ... by modification of the fabric architecture shows novel fabrics with reduced fibre volume fractions have lower deterioration of mechanical properties than fabrics with clustered flow-enhancing tows at constant fibre volume fraction.
- 2000-2003: Eight person-year Teaching Company Scheme programme 3067 with GKN Westland Aerospace Limited on the Isle of Wight.
- 2000: James Craen awarded MPhil for Resin infusion under flexible tooling
- 2001: Neil Pearce awarded PhD for Process-property-fibre distribution relationships in fibre-reinforced composites (EPSRC K04699).
- 2001: Voronoi cells, fractal dimensions and fibre composites summarises work on correlation of microscopical image analysis with processing parameters and properties.
- 2001-2003: Teaching Company Scheme programme 3720 with Vortok International on composites in railway electrification.
- 2002-2007: LINK Programme Steering Committee for Competitive Industrial Materials from Non-Food Crops.
- 2002-2007: Faraday Plastics Partnership Operations Group / Research and Training Board.
- 2003: Chairman of the ACMC/SAMPE International Conference on Marine Composites held in Plymouth.
- 2003: In-process monitoring for control of closed-mold techniques for the manufacture of thermosetting matrix composites published.
- 2004: BCHEL/CICHE-funded trip to Malaysia to advise on natural fibre composites opportunities.
- 2004: Iosif Progoulakis awarded MPhil for Heated tooling for aerospace composite manufacture (TCS/GKN Aerospace).
- 2004: First graduates from the BSc (honours) Marine and Composites Technology (MCT) and Marine Sports Technology (MST) courses:
Tim Wybrow (MCT graduate) is now Chair of SAMPE UK and Ireland committee.
- 2004: Observations on the fibre distribution and fibre strain in a woven fabric reinforcement published.
- 2004: The effect of permeant on the measured permeability of a reinforcement questions the use of saturated flow in generating definitive values.
- 2004: IOM3 Outstanding Service Award
- 2005: Low-pressure (vacuum infusion) techniques for moulding large composite structures introduces a taxonomy of resin infusion under flexible tooling processes:
PowerPoint requested for Airbus UK training after SAMPE Out-of-Autoclave Symposium at East Midlands Airport.
- 2005: Bibliography of Composites Design and Manufacture review papers initiated.
- 2005-2009: Leader of the DTI Technology Programme Meeting the Challenge of the Zero Emission Enterprise project on in-mould gel-coating.
- 2006: Consultant Professor to the Mecánica de Laminados Compuestos course at
Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina).
- 2006-2008: Reviewer for FP6 BioComp project New classes of Engineering Composites Materials from Renewable Resources.
- 2006-2008: Biomimetics Network for Industrial Sustainability (BioNIS) national committee
- 2007: Co-author of UK Patent Application GB 2432336A for in-mould gel-coating published.
- 2007-2009: Knowledge Transfer Partnership programme 6608 with Composites Integration to develop a state of the art resin control and delivery system for the aerospace composites industry.
- 2009: Ross Pomeroy awarded PhD for Permeability characterisation of continuous filament mats for resin transfer moulding (EPSRC CASE/Plastech)
- 2009: Robert Blackburn awarded MPhil for The manufacture and testing of perforated composite acoustic panels (TCS/GKN Aerospace).
- 2009: Inaugural Chair of the British Composites Society committee for Education, Professional Development and Recognition (EPDAR).
- 2009: Energy Use in the Production, and Life Cycle Impact Assessment of flax fibre for the reinforcement of composites, published.
- 2009: Undergraduate assignment on Design, manufacture, mechanical testing and numerical modelling of an asymmetric composite crossbow limb published in Composites Part B: Engineering.
- 2009: Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Zoeftig and Company Limited Final Report rated Grade A: Outstanding.
- 2009: Zoeftig KTP awarded University of Plymouth Vice-Chancellor's Knowledge Transfer Partnership of the Year Award 2009.
- 2010: Amandeep Singh Virk awarded PhD for Numerical models for natural fibre composites with stochastic properties.
- 2010: Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Composites Integration Limited Final Report rated Grade B: Very Good
- 2010: Zoeftig launch the injection moulded composite inFINITE passenger terminal seating system developed during Knowledge Transfer Partnership programme 6262:
Early orders included Kunming Changshui/17,000 seats and Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport Terminal 3/10,700 seats.
- 2010: Zoeftig KTP project awarded Best Knowledge Transfer Partnership South West England.
- 2011-2013: Reviewer/Rapporteur for FP7 project Microwave Assisted Curing for Resin Transfer Moulding (MAC-RTM).
- 2011: Nilmini Dissanayake awarded PhD for Life cycle assessment of flax fibres for the reinforcement of polymer matrix composites.
- 2011: A fibre diameter distribution factor (FDDF) for natural fibre composites published, introducing a new term into rules-of-mixture.
- 2011: Objective assessment of the surface quality of coated surfaces published:
Surface finish ranking from this technique sensibly aligns with human observation or the commercial Wavescan DOI system. The investment required is ~5% of the cost of the Wavescan DOI instrument.
- 2012: The number of delegates for ACMC short courses and workshops exceeds 2500.
- 2012: Plenary Lecture on Durability of composites in the marine environment for the Ifremer/ONR International Workshop on the Durability of Marine Composites in Nantes.
- 2012: Modulus and strength prediction for natural fibre composites introduces a fibre area correction factor (FACF) to the rules-of-mixture.
- 2012: Virtual book on bast fibres and their composites initiated.
- 2012: Archive of papers from International Conference series on Flow Processes in Composite Materials initiated.
- 2013: David Harman awarded PhD for An economic evaluation of the robotic tufting process considering the application of a novel composite wing rib post (Great Western Research/QinetiQ).
- 2013: A review of bast fibres and their composites: Part 3 - Modelling published.
- 2013: Durability of composites presentation at 1st Chinese Conference on Composite Materials (CCCM-1) at Beijing ~ China.
- 2013: Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Lorient Polyproducts Final Report rated Grade B: Very Good.
- 2013: Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Spinnaker International Final Report rated Grade B: Very Good.
- 2014: Richard Cullen awarded PhD for Air permeability of balsa core, and its influence on defect formation in resin infused sandwich laminates (EPSRC CASE/Vestas Technology).
- 2014: Gombos and Summerscales Gel-coating for marine structures awarded third place in the Best Poster Awards at 1st Partnership for Research in Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE) annual conference.
- 2014: Co-author of Chinese patent CN203972625 U on microwave heating and curing for curved composite compnents
- 2014: Styrene emissions during gel-coating of composites demonstrates in-mould gel-coating processes with a reduction in average styrene emission levels of >98% (worst new/best old) with obvious benefits for worker health and the reduction of environmental burdens.
- 2014: Virtual book on marine composites initiated.
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Grandparents' FRP bungalow.
Non-destructive Testing of Fibre-Reinforced Plastics Composites 1 book, 1987.
Non-destructive Testing of Fibre-Reinforced Plastics Composites 2 book, 1990.
Microstructural Characterisation of Fibre-reinforced Composites book, 1998.
5th International Conference on Flow Processes in Composite Materials, Plymouth 12-14 July 1999.
ACMC/SAMPE Conference on Marine Composites, Plymouth, 11-12 September 2003.
Zoeftig inFINITE passenger terminal seating, 2010.
Marine Applications of Advanced Fibre-reinforced Composites book, 2015.
Marine Composites: Design and Performance book, 2018.
The Plymouth Morris Tradition book
The sustainability pentagon.
Saltash bridges 14 May 2025
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