Contact Stephen Champion
- Email: s.m.champion@cranfield.ac.uk
Areas of expertise
- Armour systems
- Test and Evaluation
- Explosives and Munitions
- Gun Technologies
- Weapons Engineering
Background
Stephen started working with Â鶹´«Ã½AV in 1997 as a Research Assistant for stab resistant body armour. This role expanded to cover testing body armour for the Home Office and on to heavier aspects of terminal ballistics impacts. In 2007 Stephen transferred from working with armour to working with weapons to take up his current post as a Lecturer in Weapon Engineering and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017. Stephen became the Head of the Lethality and Survivability Group in 2020.
Current activities
Stephen's current research interests consist of understanding the various aspects of how enginnering design can improve infantry capability.
Stephen teaches on a wide variety of courses including:
Vehicle and Weapon Engineering MSc Programme
Explosives Ordnance Engineering MSc
Battlespace Technology MSc
Forensic MSc Programme
Royal Engineers Force Protection Engineering course
Stephen is module manager for the Light Weapon Design and Ordnance Design modules. Stephen supervises research students at MSc and PhD level in Defence related disciplines
Clients
MoD DE&S Project Teams (inc. STSP-DCC, DGM, MFP)
Dstl (Porton Down, Sandridge and Portsdown West)
Qinetiq
