Mike Tipton

Mike Tipton is Professor of Human & Applied Physiology at the Extreme Environments Laboratory, School of Sport, Health & Exercise Science at the University of Portsmouth.[1] He is also editor-in-chief of Experimental Physiology.[2]

Education

Professor Mike Tipton was educated at the University of Keele and King's College, University of London.[3]

Career

He joined the University of Surrey in 1986. After 12 years at the Robens Institute and European Institute of Health and Medical Science he moved to the University of Portsmouth in 1998.[3]. He co-fouded the International Drowning Researcher's Alliance.

Research

Tipton's research focuses on the physiological and psychological responses to adverse environments and the selection, preparation and protection of those who enter such environments.[1]

Collaboration

Tipton is a Trustee/Director of Surf Lifesaving GB; a former chairperson and now member of the Energy Institute Health Technical Committee; a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Ectodermal Dysplasia Society a former member of the Medical (& Survival) committee of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), he is a member of the Council of the RNLI. His research underpins the RNLI "Fight your Instincts" and Float First" campaign.[4]

Honours

Tipton was awarded the G. L. Brown Prize Lecture of The Physiological Society in 2014 , it was published in Experimental Physiology in 2015.[5] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and The Physiogical Society. He has been awarded Honorary Life Membership of Surf Lifesaving GB and the International Association of Sea Survival Trainers for his contributions to saving lives at sea. He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2018 for "services to physiological research in Extreme Environments", and The Ireland Medal in 2019 for "saving lives from drowning worldwide".

Publications

Tipton has published over 650 papers, reports, reviews books and absracts in survival in the sea and extreme environmental physiology, including the books 'The Essentials of Sea Survival' with Dr Frank Golden [6] and 'The Science of Beach Lifeguarding' with Adam Wooler.[7]

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References
  1. "Department-of-sport-and-exercise-science". University of Portsmouth.
  2. "Editorial Board". Experimental Physiology. 102 (10): 1332–1334. 2017. doi:10.1113/expphysiol.2017.1871.
  3. "Professor Mike Tipton". Speakers for Schools. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  4. "Coastal Deaths". RNLI. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  5. Tipton, M.J. (16 October 2015). "Environmental extremes: origins, consequences and amelioration in humans". Experimental Physiology. 101 (1): 1–14. doi:10.1113/EP085362. PMID 26391095.
  6. Tipton, Mike; Golden, Frank (January 2002). Essentials of Sea Survival. Human Kinetics. ISBN 978-0-7360-0215-8.
  7. Tipton, Mike; Wooler, Adam (January 2016). The Science of Beach Lifeguarding. CRC Press. ISBN 9781482245974.
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