Dear Presidents of the ISRM National Groups,The Joint Technical Committees JTC1 (Natural Slopes and Landslides) and JTC3 (Education and Training) of the FedIGS (joining the ISSMGE, ISRM, IAEG and IGS), are organizing a joint workshop to be held in New Zealand from 27 April to 3 May 2026. The provisional title of the workshop is Landslide Risk and Geo-Education.A key highlight of the workshop will be the 4th Hutchinson Lecture. The Lecture has been established to award a scholar, aged 42 or less at the time of the event, who has significantly contributed through his/her research and other work to the understanding of slope stability and landslides phenomena.The lecture should address a topic aligned with JTC1’s research focus on natural slopes and landslides and a paper based on the lecture is expected to be published in a peer-reviewed thematic issue of an international journal, alongside selected contributions from the workshop.The Hutchinson Lecturer should have a disciplinary background in one or more fields within geosciences. Candidates will be nominated by the national groups of the FedIGS sister societies with final selection determined by a vote of JTC1 Committee members. National societies are invited to submit nominations by 17 November 2025. The nomination package should include the following documents and be sent to the JTC1 Chair, Professor Gonghui Wang (wang.gonghui.3r@kyoto-u.ac.jp), at Kyoto University, with copy to this Secretariat (secretariat@isrm.net):1. Curriculum Vitae2. List of Publications (clearly separated into refereed journal papers and other publications)3. Brief Summary of Research and Related Contributions (maximum of two A4 pages)Best regards,Luís Lamas