I graduated from Loughborough University in 1992 with a degree in Civil Engineering. On graduation I initially spent about five years working in industry for consulting engineers. 

My industry experience encompasses working on large multi-million pound motorway schemes, large and small water and sewage/drainage projects, through to small structural and civil engineering remediation projects including work in rail and ports. This work encompassed taking schemes from outline feasibility to detailed design and construction. 

From November 1996 to June 2000 I spent almost four years employed by Loughborough University as a salaried researcher on a Highways Agency research project looking at creating a performance specification for pavement foundations. From this work I was awarded PhD in November 2000. 

I then moved into academia firstly at Nottingham Trent University where I taught and helped run a variety of courses up to MSc level and undertook a wide variety of research and consultancy work. In 2004 I re-joined Loughborough University (further details above). For 10 years I rean the Schools year out placements and then in 2014 became programme Director for Civil Engineering. 

I am the Hall Warden in Rutherford Hall of Residence.

Professional affiliations

• Chartered Engineer
• Member of The Institution of Civil Engineers
• Fellow of the Permanent Way Institution
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Awards

• Awarded Best Paper in Geosynthetics International Journal 2017. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/handle/2134/24756

• Awarded Institution of Civil Engineers’ Rees Jeffreys Award for ‘Best paper of 2014 published in Proceedings Institution of Civil Engineers Transport’ https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/handle/2134/17269

• Awarded Institution of Civil Engineers’ Rees Jeffreys Award for ‘Best paper of 2008 published in Proceedings Institution of Civil Engineers Transport’ https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/handle/2134/4331

External activities

• Chair of the Academic Panel for the Permanent Way Institution
• Vice Chair of the Permanent Way Institution Membership Committee
• Professional Reviewer for CEng/IEng/EngTech for the Permanent Way Institution 
• Chair of the Editorial Board, ICE Transport Journal (2014 to 2017) 
• Member of the Editorial Board, ICE Transport Journal (2011 to 2017)
• Member of the organising committee of a number International and National Conferences 
• Committee member, PWI Nottingham and Derby Section (2002 - 2019)
• Committee member East Midlands Geotechnical Group (EMGG) of the Institution of Civil Engineers (2000 to 2005).
• External Examiner, MEng/BEng/BSc in Civil Engineering, Nottingham Trent University (2018–)
• Reviewer for a number of Academic Journals
• Member of University Senate 2014 to 2017
• Chair of Governors, Academic Scrutiny Committee, Charnwood College, Loughborough

Key collaborators

My research and enterprise activities are conducted with a range of academic and stakeholder partners: (see projects list above)