Dr Julie Mathias

Lecturer
BA, MA, DAA, PhD Photograph of Dr Julie Mathias.

Contact

Email: jum@aber.ac.uk
Office: 222
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622147
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622190

Responsibilities

  • Lecturer
  • Personal tutor
  • Dissertation supervision
  • PhD supervision

Teaching Areas

Undergraduate Teaching

Local History in Wales, Rare Books Librarianship.

Postgraduate Teaching

Administrative and Historical Studies, Medieval and Post-Medieval Palaeography and Diplomatic, Local History in Wales, Rare Books Librarianship, Using Manuscript Sources for Medieval Studies.

Research

  • Part-time PhD (2000-7) investigated the extent to which archive catalogues meet users’ needs. This was carried by means of a survey of the custodians of estate collections, then gathering together and constructing a range of finding aids to put before a number of focus groups of users (and non-users) in order to obtain their views of the merits and demerits of each example.
  • Investigating the efficacy of multi-media in teaching palaeography and diplomatic.
  • Increasing inclusivity.

Biography

Interests include local history, music, travel, walking and gardening.

Additional Interests

Professional Activities

Member of Archives and Records Association

Staff Publications

Mathias, J. (2011, August). Strengths and pitfalls of using finding aids for family and estate archives: the Cefnbryntalch / Buckley Jones Collection. Paper presented at a one day symposium, a joint enterprise between Aberystwyth and Bangor universities in association with the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) and its affiliated ‘Mostyn Project’ , ‘Opening the Vaults: researching Welsh family archives c.1500-1850’, Gloddaith Hall, Llandudno.

Mathias, J. (2011, July). The local Record Office: a Welsh perspective. Paper presented at the UK Conference on the History of Records and Archives (UK-CHORA), University of Liverpool.

Mathias, J. and T. Gillison. (2010, July). Breaking down the barriers. Paper presented at the meeting of ‘Supporting the student experience: a Welsh perspective’ conference, Aberystwyth University.

Mathias, J. and T. Gillison. (2010, July) From parchment to pixels. Paper presented at the meeting of 10th DIVERSE Conference, Portland Maine. Publication pending.

Mathias, J. and T. Gillison. (2010, June) Widening access across space and time, Paper presented at the meeting of Action Research Conference, Aberystwyth University.

Mathias, J. and T. Gillison. (2010)  From parchment to pixels or pixels to parchment? In S.K. Haslett and H. Rowlands Enhancing research-teaching links in Higher Education. Proceedings of the Newport NEXUS Conference 2010. Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Special Publication No. 3 (pp. 92-107) University of Wales, Newport.