Dr Cerys Jones FHEA, PGCTHE, PhD (Aberystwyth), BSc (Wales)

Biography

Cerys graduated with a first-class honours degree in Physical Geography and Mathematics in 2008. After being awarded a Welsh-Medium Teaching Postgraduate Scholarship by the Centre for the Development of Welsh-medium Higher Education, Cerys completed her PhD in 2012 under the supervision of Dr Sarah Davies, Professor Rhys Jones, Dr Mark Whitehead and Dr Neil Macdonald (University of Liverpool). Cerys has been involved with Welsh-medium teaching within DGES since 2008 but formally joined the Institute’s staff in October 2011 as a Welsh-Medium Teaching Fellow. Following a 9-month period as a Research Assistant at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Cerys commenced her appointment as Welsh-Medium Lecturer in Geography in February 2013, financed by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and Aberystwyth University.

Research Groups

• Environment and Society Research Group
• Quaternary Environmental Change Research Group

Projects

• CHERISH: Climate Change and Coastal Heritage (funded by the EU's Ireland-Wales Programme 2014-2020). To learn more: Facebook, Twitter (@CHERISHproj)
• 'Spaces of experience and horizons of expectation’: the implications of extreme weather events, past, present and future (wedi’i ariannu gan yr AHRC). To read more: Blog; Facebook; Twitter (@Weather_Extreme)
• Snow Scenes: exploring the role of place in weather memories *Snows of Yesteryear

• Co-DGES employability and tutorials coordinator
• Chair of Aberystwyth University's Branch of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol
• Member of the Environmental and Biological Subject Panel of the Centre for the Development of Welsh Medium Education
• 'Esboniadur' contributor of terminology

Module Coordinator (2018-19)

• DA11020 - Byw gyda newid byd-eang
• DA22100 - Tiwtorial Daearyddiaeth Lefel 2
• DA22810 - Daearberyglon
• ES20110 - Environmental Science Tutorial Level 2
• GG22100 - Level 2 Geography Tutorial
• GG29110 - The Welsh Environment
• GS11020 - Living with Global Change

Lecturer (2018-19)

• DA28610 - Cyfathrebu Cymdeithas a Gwyddor
• DA22810 - Daearberyglon
• GG29110 - The Welsh Environment
• GS11020 - Living with Global Change
• DA11020 - Byw gyda newid byd-eang
• DA10810 - Newid Hinsawdd
• EA22810 - Geohazards

Tutor (2018-19)

• Year 1 Welsh-medium students
• Year 3 Dissertation students