Philip Shipway: Cripps Professor of Engineering Materials, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham
Philip Shipway holds the Cripps Chair in Engineering Materials at the University of Nottingham where he has been a member of academic staff since 1994. He is a chartered engineer and a Fellow of the IMechE, the IoMMM and Advance HE.
Philip studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1989. He remained in Cambridge for his PhD studies in the area of erosion of brittle materials under the supervision of Ian Hutchings. Following a brief period as a research fellow, Philip took up a lectureship at the University of Nottingham and found this to be a forward-looking and supportive environment for both teaching and research. Throughout his career, he has been an enthusiastic proponent in the teaching of materials for engineers whilst his research has primarily centred around the development of a physical understanding of the mechanisms of material removal in tribologically aggressive environments.
In the wider tribology community, Philip has served on the steering committees of a number of conferences (including being on the Board of Directors of the International Conference on Wear of Materials from 2009 – 2013) and on the editorial board of a number of journals; from 2013 to 2018, he was co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal WEAR (Elsevier), the first established and one of the key international journals in this area of tribology.
Philip has sought to bring his skills as an educator to bear in the field of tribology where he employs an approach that emphasises a fundamental understanding of the science of tribological processes. He has been a long-standing contributor (2005 to present) to the tutorial course that accompanies the International Conference on Wear of Materials. In 2017, he collaborated with Ian Hutchings on the publication of a substantially revised and updated second edition of Ian’s widely used 1992 textbook “Tribology: Friction and Wear of Engineering Materials”. Philip has supervised over 50 PhD students to successful completion of their studies in the field of tribology, with a number of these students continuing in tribology-related careers.
At the University of Nottingham, he has undertaken various leadership roles within the Faculty of Engineering and University more widely, including being the Associate PVC for Education and Student Experience in the Faculty of Engineering between 2011 and 2022.