Mr Clive Temple

Senior Lecturer-Motorsport
Location: Building 61, Cranfield campus
E: c.temple@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 754056
Environmental Science and Technology


Current activities

Clive Temple is the Programme Director and Course Director for the Motorsport Engineering and Management MSc. In addition Clive co-manages the group design project and individual thesis projects, working with motorsport companies. He is also the Admissions Tutor for the Motorsport programme. Clive organises the Introduction to Motorsport Engineering Short Course.

Clive's research interests relate to:

  • the business of motorsport 
  • motorsport technology development and transfer
  • motorsport technology clusters
  • the history of motorsport
  • the relationship between race driver and race engineer

Clive also supports research and consultancy activities in the Centre for Automotive Technology.

Clients

  • Formula One and other leading motorsport teams
  • Silverstone Circuits Limited
  • The Motorsport Industy Association (MIA)
  • Cranfield Motorsport Simulation

Background

Clive is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. With degrees from the Universities of Wales and York, Clive developed his sales and marketing expertise in industry before moving across to the higher education sector in the early 1990s. Clive Temple joined Cranfield University in 1995, working alongside Professors Tom Stephenson and Simon Judd in the School of Water Sciences. Initially Clive focused on marketing an Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPSRC) scheme designed to develop postgraduate-level process engineering and management expertise for personnel in the water sector. This proved highly successful with support from utility companies, consultants and contractors. This was followed by a number of equally successful initiatives, including a £0.5M funded postgraduate level development scheme centred on motorsport. Working with his colleagues Clive played a major role in developing the academic aspects of the programme as well as establishing links with motorsport organisations and individuals such as Sir Jackie Stewart OBE. Clive has drawn upon his experience of motorsport and his connections to ensure that the course reflects the needs of the sector. Now based in the Centre for Automotive Technology, Clive continues to contribute to the delivery of the motorsport programme. Clive is an active motor racing driver campaigning a number of vintage and historic racing cars that he owns.

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