Kevin was a 1973 Natural Sciences undergraduate matriculate at Churchill College. He has been a Fellow of Churchill College since 1987 when he also became a lecturer in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, joining the ranks of the College Emeritus Fellows in 2022.

Over the years he has supervised Materials at IA and IB for the College, both for the Natural Sciences Tripos and for the Engineering Tripos. His teaching and research interests are in the broad area of the microstructure and properties of metallic, ceramic and composite materials. He is a co-author with Anthony Kelly of  the Second and Third Editions of ‘Crystallography and Crystal Defects’.