Completed PhD and MPhil Theses

2014

Fitzpatrick A.A.W. 'Dynamic response of the Greenland Ice Sheet to climate change'

Ghosh S. 'Habitata suitability analysis for Tigers ( Panthera tigris) in the Indo-Bhutan Tiger Conservation Landscape'

Han-Hsiu Chen: 'Cultivating heritage: the commemoration of tobacco agriculture in eastern Taiwan'

Alistair Cunningham: 'Satellite-based monitoring of land cover change in Wales: a multi-sensor approach'

Heather Crump: 'Evaluating causes of Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) decline in Mid Wales: a geographic approach'

Sarah  Perry: 'Investigating uses of remote sensing for monitoring marine megafauna'

Rachel Smedley: 'Testing the use of single-grain K-feldspars for luminescence dating of glacial sediments in Patagonia'

Richard Williams: 'Two-dimensional numerical modelling of natural braided river morphodynamics'

 

2013

Durcan J. ‘Luminescence dating of sediments in Punjab, Pakistan : Implications for the collapse of the Harappan Civiilsation’

Holt T.O. 'An Assessment on the stability of southwest Antarctic Peninsula Ice Shelves'

Huband M. 'Characteristics of the Dyfi river estuary transition floodplain'

Jones C.A. 'Human-Environment Interactions during periods of extreme weather in Wales, 1846-1947'

Kumar C.B. 'Changing role of the formal and informal insitutions in the environmental management of a South megacity- a case study of water managment in Delhi'

Lilley R. 'Behaviour change and personal empowerment; A study of the application of Mindfulness training in the develpment of pro-climate behaviours'

Martin-Jones C.M. 'Defining fractionation in LA-ICP-MS analysis of volcanic glass shards and its applicationto the correlations of tephra deposits from Ulleugdo, Korea'

Patton H. 'Modelling the dynamic instabilities of palaeo-ice sheets'

Richardson J. 'Controls on the location, development and significance of bedrock reaches on the middle River Rheidol,west Wales'

Robinson J.P. 'Camouflage and the British ' Home Front' Landscape, 1936-1945'

Souness C.J. 'The Origins and subsequent Evolution of Mars' Mid-latitude Glacier-Like Forms'

Wang Chi-Mao  'Governing the Taiwanese countryside: Guanxi, Power and Agency'

Westoby M.J 'Numerical Modelling of Himalayan Glacial Lake Outburst Floods'

 

2012

Lyons J.R. ‘Chronology and controls of Late Quaternary sedimentation, pedogenesis and erosion across interior South Africa’

Straughan E.R. ‘Scrutinised, Stuffed and Submerged: Geographies of the Skin’

 

2011

Jones, R.D., Faith, identity, and the everyday : the quotidian geographies of Muslims in west Wales.

Michnowicz, S.A.K., The Laki fissure eruption and UK mortality crises of 1783-1784.

Welsh, M.J., Unruly waters : Nyasaland and Malawi, the regulation of nature and nations 1920-1980.

 

2010

Booth, J., The response of Mediterranean steepland [and] coastal catchments to base level and climate change, southwestern Crete.

Clemmens, S.J., Glacial debris-transfer and moraine formation in high relief glaciated valley landsystems, Cordillera Blanca, Peru.

Coulson, H.R., The character and formation of the basal ice layer at a temperate Alpine glacier and a polythermal Arctic glacier.

Davids, F., Optical dating of hurricane activity in New England, USA.

Mills, S.L., Be prepared : the cultural politics of the scout movement.

Moorhouse, A.M.L., Tracing metal from sources to sinks in the Afon Clarach catchment (mid-Wales) using stable isotop and trace metal fingerprinting.

Robson, P.J., The glacial and palaeoenvironmental history of the Rhinog Mountains in North Wales (UK) from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Early Holocene.

Sahlin, E.A.U., Palaeoglaciology and geomorphology of the Central and Northen Cambrian Mountains, Wales.

Smith, A., Soft capitalism at work : experiencing management consultancy.

Wright, P., The contruction of plausibility in architectural desihn and inhabitation.

Wynne-Jones, S., Negotiating neoliberalism and engaging ecosystems services : the everyday ethnographies and political-economy of agri-environment reform in Wales.

 

2009

Bullen, A., The new geographies of sustainable citizenship: perspectives on space, time and nature in Los Angeles Eco-Village.

Fleming, B., Border choreography : associations of boundary and mobility along the Anglo/welsh Borders.

Hartley, S., Remediation of abandoned metal mine drainage using dealginated seaweed.

Mason, K., Empowering Citizen Green : prefigurative politics, autonomous geographies and hoping against hope.

Warrender, R., Remediation of circum-neutral metal mine drainage from the U.K. and Ireland using laboratory-scale permeable reactive barriers.

Whitfield, R.G., Nature, timing and controls of Mediterranean Quaternary river development : the Rio Bergantes Ebro basin, northeast Spain.

 

2008

Yeomans, C.A., Placing governance in post-socialist Berlin.

 

2007

Bearcock, J.M., Remediation of mine drainage using naturally occurring iron hydroxides.

Bunting, P.J., Integration of remote sensing data for the characterisation of Australian forests.

Jones, A.F., Reconstructing historical and Holocene flooding in Welsh river catchments.

Rowberry, M.D., Pre-glacial landscape morphogenesis in Wales, U.K.

Smith, N.J., Major and trace element geochemistry of volcanic glass from the Minoan tephra deposit of Santorini, Greece.

Stevenson, C.R., Discourse, power and energy conflicts: analysing renewable energy policy making in post devolution Wales.

 

2006

Harrison, J., Regions in focus: a 'new regionalist' interpretation of England's northwest.

Hart, J.S., Glass chemistry of 2nd millennium BC terrestrial tephra deposits from the eastern Mediterranean : implications for the age of the Minoan eruption.

MacLeavy, J., New Labour's vision of social exclusion in local governance.

Marshall, M.H., Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeolimnology of lakes Tana and Ashenge, northern Ethiopia.

Robson, P.J., Reconstruction of past vegetation and environment at Castell Henllys Iron Age Settlement, North Pembrokeshire.

Rodnight, H. ‘Developing a luminescence chronology of late Quaternary fluvial change in South African floodplain wetlands’

Saunders, A.S.A., Ideas and understandings of urbanism in nineteenth and twentieth century literature.

Watkin, S., Geographies of welfare to work in rural Wales: delivering and experiencing the New Deal.

 

2005

Adey, P., Spaces of flow : mobility and identity in airport space.

Athanassas, C., Luminescence studies of coastal sediments in the south west Peloponnese, Greece.

Bevan, P., Cyborgs in the making: the production of cybergeographies.

Dennis, I., The impact of historical metal mining on the River Swale catchment, North Yorkshire, U.K.

Maddern, J.F., Spaces of history and identity at Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

Williamson, A.J., Performing Welshness : national identity, performance and the music spaces of West Wales.

 

2004

Bater, J.A.W., Reservoirs and pathways of uranium in the secondary environment derived from natural and anthropogenic sources : possible health and exposure risks.

Bickerton, L., The meanings,expectations and processes of regeneration partnership working between communities and local authorities in rural Wales.

Jacobs, Z., Development of luminescence techniques for dating middle stone age sites in South Africa.

Johnstone, E., River response to late quaternary environmental change: the Dyfi catchment, mid-Wales.

Mountain, N.C., Modelling the impact of climate change on the hydrology of the Elan and Wye catchments, Mid-Wales.

Noble, P.L., Response of a steepland river system to late quaternary environmental change, South Central Crete.

Smith, K., Lead contaminated floodplains in the historical metalliferous mining areas of mid-Wales : soil ingestion and implications for grazing sheep.

Vann, R.A.S., Sedimentology of glacial deposits in the Gaddach valley, South-West Ireland.

 

2003

Armitage, S.J. 'Testing and application of luminescence techniques to sediments from the southeast coast of Africa.'

Burbidge, C.I. 'Luminescence investigations and dating of anthropogenic palaeosols from South Mainland, Shetland'

Pykett, B., People, participation and planning : partisan action in promoting the bike in Bristol.

Turner, J.N., A geomorphological - geochemical assessment of the impacts of the Aznalcollar tailings dam failure on the Rio Guadiamar, Southwest Spain.