Keynote speakers

'Quaternary landscape reconstruction and ground engineering: a win-win partnership.' 

Becky Briant is a Professor at Birkbeck University of London. She works with geomorphological and sedimentological records of landscape change, mostly in fluvial and coastal environments, with particular interests in sediment dating methods (OSL, radiocarbon). Her main research interest is in landscape reconstruction at various timescales, and she has worked in Iraq and Saudi Arabia in addition to England. Since 2020, Becky has been collaborating with academics, industry, geoarchaeologists and Government bodies such as the British Geological Survey to build collaborations and common ways of working through the QRA Engineering Research Group. She is currently (2024-2026) a Royal Society Industry Fellow, working with the Tunnelling and Ground Engineering team at Jacobs.