The School of Civil Engineering and Surveying

Profile

Academic qualifications

• BSc (Eng) Geological Engineering (Queen Mary, London 1987)
• PhD Civil Engineering - (Queen Mary, London 1995)
• PhD Thesis Title: Geotextile Filter Design and Particle Bridge Formation

Teaching

• Introduction to Environmental Science and Geology
• Soils and Materials 1
• Soils and Materials 2
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Geotechnology

Research

• Coastal Landslides of the UK
• Filter and Drainage Geotextiles
• Landslides and Cess Pit Drainage
• Soils Laboratory Testing

Other activity

• Active Geotechnical Consultant – Expert in Geosynthetics and Slope Stability Analysis. Also involved in Piling Design, Retaining Walls, Drainage Design and Shallow Foundation Design
• Committee Member of the ICE (South) Education & Training Committee
• Committee Member of the ICE (South) Southern Geotechnical Group

Selected publications

1. Watson, P. D. J. & Bromhead, E. N., (2007) The Effect of Waste Water Disposal on Coastal Slope Stability and the Problem of Climate Change.,In Int. Conf. on Landslides and Climate Change – Challenges & Solutions, Ventnor, Isle of Wight.
2. Watson, P. D. J. & Bromhead, E. N. (2000) The Effects of Waste Water Disposal on Slope Stability. In 8th Int. Symp. on Landslides, Cardiff.
3. Watson, P. D. J. & John, N. W. M. (1999) Geotextile Filter Design and Simulated Bridge Formation at the Soil-Geotextile Interface. Geotextiles & Geomembranes, 17(5-6), 265-280.
4. Harris, A. J. & Watson, P. D. J. (1997) Optimal Procedure for the Ring Shear Test. Ground Engineering, 30(6), 26-28.
5. Watson, P. D. J. & John, N. W. M. (1998) Minimum Pore Size and Percent Open Area - Some Neglected Factors in Geotextile Filter Design,In CVJ Varma, G Venkatappa Rao, ARG Rao, AA Balkema (Eds.) Geosynthetics Asia ‘97 (Select Papers) (483) Bangalore, India.
6. John, N. W. M. & Watson, P. D. J. (1996) Soil Particle Bridge Development at the Soil-Geotextile Interface,In Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Geofilters,( 237-246) Montreal, Canada.