In this time, May had been a board member of multiple Cooperative Research Centres including the Centre for Mining Technology and Equipment at the University of Queensland.Sense, Design. “Australian Prospectors & Miners Hall of Fame | Online Resource.” Mininghalloffame.com.au, 2013. http://www.mininghalloffame.com.au/hall-of-fame/inductee.php?id=148. He has also been Director of the Australian Minerals and Energy Environment Foundation.May. Jim. James Richard May. Curriculum Vitae. 11. April. 2023. He has worked in advisory committees for many university departments and several divisions of the CSIRO and the Australian Centre for Minesite Rehabilitation Research. In addition to these, he was also a board member of the Scientific Advisory Board of CSR Limited (Rio Tinto Limited) in the 1990s. In this time he was also on the board of the Sugar Research Institute where he applied his same skills from AMIRA.Sense, Design. “Australian Prospectors & Miners Hall of Fame | Online Resource.” Mininghalloffame.com.au, 2013. http://www.mininghalloffame.com.au/hall-of-fame/inductee.php?id=148. Moreover, he also had an important role in the success of the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC). May had a long-standing collaborative relationship with Alban Lynch. He also had a close association with the Sir James Foots School of Mineral Resources at the University of Queensland and the Sir Ian Wark Research Institute with John Ralston at the University of South Australia between 1994 and 2010. May has also been a member of the Australian Research Council as a committee member that reviewed several programs before his retirement.Sense, Design. “Australian Prospectors & Miners Hall of Fame | Online Resource.” Mininghalloffame.com.au, 2013. http://www.mininghalloffame.com.au/hall-of-fame/inductee.php?id=148.
