Contact Michael Harris
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 988409
- Email: Mike.e.Harris@cranfield.ac.uk
- ORCID
Areas of expertise
- CBRN Focus Areas
- Counter-IED
- Explosives and Munitions
Background
Following a full career in the British Army as an Ammunition Technical Officer (ATO), Mike worked in the commercial defence and security sector before taking the post as Head of Resilience for a government department.
Mike has a degree in International Politics and Strategic Studies from UCW Aberystwyth, a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) and an MSc in Forensic Explosive and Explosion Investigation (FEEI) from Cranfield University. He is currently studying part-time for an MSc by Research relating to concealment and lethality of improvised explosive devices.
Current activities
Mike is the lead for the Counter-IED Capability Module, the Terrorism Risk Management & Mitigation Module, the Hazardous Forensics Module and Co-Lead for the Forensic Investigation of Explosives and Explosive Devices Module. Mike also teaches and supervises on a number of related courses and programmes including the Explosive Ordnance Engineering MSc.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Cobham L, Harris M & Marquez-Grant N. (2023). Analysing open-source images in forensic anthropology. Anthropology in Action, 6(2)
- Cobham L, Márquez-Grant N, Barker C, Sanabria Medina C, Naranjo-Santana J, .... (2022). Integrating humanitarian mine action and humanitarian forensic action. The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction, 25(3)
- Flynn D, Charters R, Mangham P, Swallowe D, Tudor M, .... (2022). An investigation into the use of a vehicle for improvised blast mitigation. Explosives Engineering, March 2022
- Skelly D, Harris M & Painter J. (2021). Development of a method to measure target disruption using explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) disruptors. Explosives Engineering, December 2021
Conference Papers
Books
- Bishop M, Bull AMJ, Clasper J, Harris M, Harrison K, .... (2022). Analysis of Explosive Events In Bull AMJ, Clasper J & Mahoney PF (eds), Blast Injury Science and Engineering (2nd). Springer International Publishing.
- Márquez-Grant N, Webster H, Dussault M-C, Harris M, Roberts J, .... (2021). Chapter 12: Identifying blast trauma in the human skeleton applications for forensic anthropology In Shvedchikova T, Moghaddam N & Barone PM (eds), Crimes in the past: archaeological and anthropological evidence. Archaeopress.