Introduction to the Nineteenth Glossop Lecture

Abstract

Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Nineteenth Glossop Lecture. A great many of you here this evening will already know our speaker, Dr Kevin Privett (Fig. 1). Perhaps at one stage you may have worked alongside Kevin as a fellow employee. Alternatively, perhaps you have attended course lectures presented by him (at any one of a number of universities around the UK) or, worse still, perhaps Kevin was your external examiner for your MSc in Engineering Geology! If the latter does apply to anyone in tonight's audience, you have clearly forgiven him, or maybe you are here to get your own back! Fig. 1. Dr Kevin Privett. For those who haven't met Kevin before this evening, let me provide some background on a geological career spanning some 45 years. A young Mr Privett arrived at the University of Bristol to study geology in 1974. He left as Dr Privett in 1980. Kevin's PhD entitled ‘Engineering Slopes in the South Cotswolds’ was undertaken under the supervision of Dr Brian Hawkins. With Brian as PhD supervisor and Professor Peter Fookes …