About
Kevin is an Associate Professor in Geomechanics, RAEng/HS2 Ltd Senior Research Fellow (2020-2027) and Leverhulme Trust APEX Award Fellow (2025-2027)
His ambition is to find the best way to assess, preserve and strengthen our transport, water and energy infrastructure, so that it is resilient to climate change and fit for purpose in the 21st Century.
Kevin was a PI for the UKRI-funded ACHILLES Programme (2018-2024) to examine the weather-driven deterioration of infrastructure earthworks. He held a five-year RAEng Senior Research Fellowship, supported by HS2 Ltd (2020-2025) and a RAEng Industry Fellowship (2017-2018), supported by Network Rail.
Research
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- Deterioration processes in ageing of transportation earthworks (e.g. highway and railway embankments and cuttings)
- The impact of extreme weather and climate change on groundwater pressures beneath engineering structures
- The engineering properties of Jurassic and Triassic mudstones for geotechnical design (e.g. excavations, embankments and foundations)
- The influence of glacial and periglacial weathering on the engineering properties of the ground
- Moisture movement beneath floor slabs in historic buildings
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Publications
39 publications
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Kevin Briggs, Peter R. Helm, Joel A. Smethurst, Alastair Smith, Ross Stirling, Aleksandra Svalova, Yuderka Trinidad Gonzalez, Fleur A. Loveridge & Stephanie Glendinning,
2023, Transportation Geotechnics, 43
Type: article
Wengui Huang, Fleur A. Loveridge, Kevin M. Briggs, Joel A. Smethurst, Nader Saffari & Fiona Thomson,
2023, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 57(1)
Type: article
Grace A. Morris, Kevin Briggs, Alison Henry & Richard J. Ball,
2023
Type: bookChapter
Kevin M. Briggs, Tom A. Dijkstra & Stephanie Glendinning,
2022, GeoStrata Magazine, 26(4)
Type: article
Yuderka Trinidad Gonzalez, Kevin Briggs, William Powrie, Nick Sartain & Simon Butler,
2022
Type: conference
Kevin Briggs, Richard Ball & Iain McCaig,
2022, UCL Open Environment, 4
Type: article
Kevin M. Briggs, Letisha Blackmore, Aleksandra Svalova, Fleur A. Loveridge, Stephanie Glendinning, William Powrie, Simon Butler & Nick Sartain,
2022, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology
Type: article
Yuderka Trinidad Gonzalez, Kevin Briggs & Vernon R. Schaefer,
2022
Type: conference
Grace Morris, Kevin Briggs, Richard Ball & Alison Henry,
2021, The Journal of the Building Limes Forum, 27, 66-76
Type: article
Kevin Briggs, Richard Ball & Iain McCaig,
2021
Type: conference
Biography
Prizes
- EPSRC RISE (Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers) Connector award (2018)
- Shropshire Geological Society - Honorary Member (2023)
- EPSRC RISE (Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers) Connector award (2018)
- Shropshire Geological Society - Honorary Member (2023)
- Membership of ISSMGE TC202 (Technical Committee for Transport Geotechnics) (2023)
- National committee member for British Geotechnical Association (BGA) (2022-2025) (2022)
- University of Bath: Recognising Excellence Scheme 2014 (Teaching) (2014)
- 41st Cooling Prize (British Geotechnical Association) (2010)
- EPSRC Doctoral Prize (A one-year research Fellowship) (2011)