Karen Clarke

Qualifications

• BEng in Civil Engineering, Kingston University
• PhD in Residual Strength of Natural Clays with Special Reference to Rate Effects, Kingston University
• PG Cert in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Kingston University

Memberships

• Chartered Civil Engineer, Member of the Institution of Civil Engineer
• Chartered Construction Manager, Member of the Chartered Institute of Building
• Chartered Building Engineer, Member of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers with Chartered status
• Associate Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Fellow of the Geological Society
• Member of the British Geotechnical Association
• Member of the British Hydrological Society

• IBSEN, M-L & CLARKE KM. (2011). Construction Academic Skills Centre (CASC): a Drop-in Centre to Support Students with their Academic Skills, Run by Trained Student Advisors in the Civil Engineering and Surveying Departments. In: Morgan, M Improving the Student Experience: A Practical Guide for Universities and Colleges. London: Routledge. Part 3 Chapter 10
• BROMHEAD, E N; IBSEN, M L; & CLARKE, K M (2009) Mapping of the Landslide Complex at St Catherine’s Point; proceedings of the landslide processes conference, Strasbourg, France, 6-7 February 2009. Strasbourg, European Centre on Geomorphology
• CLARKE, KM (2005) Residual Strength of Natural Clays with Special Reference to Rate Effects PhD Thesis, Kingston University Unpubl.
• CLARKE, K. M. (2004) Activity of mudslides near St Catherine’s Point, Isle of Wight, BGA Cooling Prize Finalist paper 2004. ICE / BGA (Kingston University)) Unpubl.
• BROMHEAD, E. N. & CLARKE, K. M. (2003) Basal Incorporation in mudslides at the slide-flow interface – some remaining questions. Proceedings of Workshop on Flows; Sorrento, Italy

Karen’s PhD is in Geotechnics and was on Residual Strength of Natural Clays with Special Reference to Rate Effects.

Her research interests are in geotechnics and flood risk.

Karen has taught a wide range of subjects at foundation year, undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Teaching subjects such as:

• Construction (Design, Materials and Regulation)
• Project Management
• BIM
• Software: Primavera, AutoCAD, REVIT
• Traffic Management
• Flood Risk Management
• Water Supply
• Geotechnics
• Basic Structures
• Engineering Surveying
• Engineering Science
• Engineering Mathematics
• Academic Skills
• Research Methods

Karen has worked in Industry in transport planning, design and flood risk management.