Speaker: Alastair John
Date: Saturday 07th June 2025
Start Time: 14:00
End Time: 15:15
Venue: via Zoom
Alastair John Bio
Alistair is the Founder of Race2Space – (www.race2space.org.uk), cademic supervisor of Project Sunride (www.sunride.space/) and Deputy Director of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Sheffield.
· Won the Vice Chancellor’s Award 2022 for outstanding teaching practice and improving student employability
· Lead author on award-winning journal publications in internationally recognised journals, including RAeS young person written paper prize
· Lecturing Aerospace Heat Transfer with outstanding student feedback
· Implementing and running new quadcopter design and build modules for 170 students
· Work package leader on the $5M EU H2020 MADELEINE research project (https://www.madeleine-project.eu/).
· Qualified as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
· Interdisciplinary Programmes in Engineering exams officer (responsible for the exams of >1000 students)
· Over 8 years’ industrial experience working closely with Rolls-Royce on multi-disciplinary fan and turbine blade design
· Founded Race2Space – A national rocket propulsion competition and linked outreach initiative to accelerate and upskill student rocket teams, provide networking and industry-academia links and increase the diversity of the talent entering the space sector.
Meeting Timetable
• 13:55 – The meeting is available to join
• 14:00 – Welcome
• 14:05 – Race2Space by Alastair John
• 14:45 ish – Questions and Answers (we enable everyone’s microphone to allow an interactive Q&A session)
So, here’s the Plan/Joining Instructions!
1. Register for the Talk using the link below
2. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2heGu9araiz5t0kNJVafESrFDPidGrsMkesdDI5McXLZ6zQ/viewform
3. Before the event, we will send you an email with the joining link for the meeting.
4. On the day, click meeting link (and follow the on-screen instructions to install Zoom if prompted)
Please Note: The Conference Call and Q & A sessions will be recorded (which may capture your name, picture, voice or video) and made available via the West Midlands Facebook group and possibly via the BIS HQ website. You consent to this by registering for the Conference Call/Q & A sessions.
