He also has substantial experience teaching on a range of subjects including landslides in loess, disaster management, tropical landscapes and soils, geohazards and geotechnical engineering, and delivering distance learning modules on Environmental Assessment and Integrated Water Management. Since September 2017 he re-joined Loughborough University to pursue his research interests and incorporate these into the teaching of engineering geology. Project management skills and interactions with industry are demonstrated by his active roles in EPSRC-funded iSMART and FUTURENET projects and the ACHILLES Research Programme, the CLIFFS network and contributions to the EU COST action TU1202.
He has a strong background in the communication of research into the mechanisms (including distribution and triggering thresholds of landslides) and impacts of geohazards and have used this to promote inter-disciplinary research projects such as the Safer Self-Recovery (British Academy-funded) and its pre-cursor Promoting Safer Building (GCRF-funded) projects.
He has more than 100 publications and was lead-author on a paper on ‘Forecasting infrastructure resilience to climate change’ that was awarded the Rees Jeffreys Award (Journal Prize for best paper in ICE journal) in October 2015.