This was followed by a three-year period working for Travers Morgan Consulting Engineers. This included two years as a Senior Assistant Resident Engineer on the A55 Immersed Tube Conwy Crossing, with responsibility for assessing slope stability and interpretation of extensive geotechnical instrumentation, and a period as a Geotechnical Engineer responsible for all aspects of ground investigations, and design of power station foundations. Consultancy activities have been continued to the present day, and include landfill engineering issues, slope stability assessment, specialist laboratory testing, and providing expert witness evidence.

Following my period in industry, I joined Nottingham Trent University in 1989 as a Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering and subsequently held the positions of Principal Lecturer and then Reader in Geotechnical Engineering. Over a period of ten years, research interests were extended from the initial area of slope stability, to include geotechnical engineering of landfills and waste mechanics. In October 1999 I joined the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University as a Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering and leader of the Geotechnics Group. I became a Professor of Geotechnical Engineering in June 2007 and held the roles of Associate Dean Enterprise for the School from 2011-2014, University Research Challenge Leader for Changing Environments and Infrastructure from 2014-2017, and Division lead for Civil Engineering since 2018.