Dr Christopher Muellerleile

• Working the Land at a Time of Crises: Emotional responses to Climate and Nature emergencies in Wales (cyfredol)

  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Anna Pigott

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Tavi Murray

• Buildings Castles in the air«br /» To what extent has Purpose-Built Student Accommodation provided a 'fix' in Swansea? (cyfredol)

  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Amanda Rogers

• Risking Net Zero. Perspectives from Geographic Political Economy on the UK’s ‘De-Risking’ Climate Finance regime (dyfarnwyd 2024)

  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Keith Halfacree

• GEC252L Geographical Fieldwork Skills: Local

  Nod y modiwl yw ennill profiad o'r sgiliau daearyddol y mae eu hangen i archwilio'r amgylcheddau daearyddiaeth ffisegol a dynol o'n cwmpas. Defnyddiwn ein hasedau daearyddol lleol a rhanbarthol sylweddol i archwilio nifer o themâu ym maes daearyddiaeth ddynol a ffisegol. Y nodau cyffredinol yw nodi, dadansoddi a meithrin dealltwriaeth o'r dirwedd ddaearyddol amrywiol a¿r nodweddion cynhenid yn Abertawe a de Cymru. Mae'r modiwl yn cynnwys hyd at 10 niwrnod maes 'dewis a dethol', gyda thema daearyddiaeth ddynol, daearyddiaeth ffisegol neu ddaearyddiaeth ddynol a ffisegol. Gofynnir i fyfyrwyr ddewis mynd i 4 o'r diwrnodau maes. Bydd myfyrwyr sy¿n dilyn y modiwl hwn yn ennill profiad mewn dylunio ymchwil, methodolegau, dadansoddi data a dulliau cyflwyno. Gall myfyrwyr sy'n dilyn y cwrs maes hwn ddewis canolbwyntio ar naill ai elfennau daearyddiaeth ffisegol neu ddynol neu'r diwrnodau dynol/ffisegol cymysg, neu gymysgedd o'r tri. Mae'r cwrs yn hyblyg iawn o ganlyniad i'r ystod o bynciau y gallwn eu harchwilio yn yr ardal leol a rhanbarthol. Bydd deunyddiau darlith a deunyddiau ar-lein yn ategu pob diwrnod maes. Cynhelir y diwrnodau ar adegau gwahanol yn ystod y Semester a'r myfyrwyr eu hunain fydd yn cadw eu lle ar y diwrnodau maes o'u dewis. Thema'r daith yw "De Cymru: Amgylcheddau, Tirweddau, Treftadaeth a Chymuned". The module is concerned with gaining experience of the geographical skills needed to explore the physical and human geography environments around us. We use our considerable local and regional geographical assets to explore multiple themes in human and physical geography. The general aims are to observe, analyse and achieve an understanding of the varied geographical landscape and inherent features in Swansea and South Wales. The module is run via up to 10 'pick and mix' field days, with a human, physical or human and physical geography theme. Students will be required to chose 4 of the field days to attend. Students taking this module will gain experience in research design, methodologies, data analysis and presentation methods. Students taking this field course can choose to focus on either the physical or human geography elements or the mixed human/physical days, or a mix of all three. Maximum flexibility is afforded by the range of topics we can explore in the local and regional area. Each day will be accompanied by online and lecture materials. The days will be run at various times in the Semester and students will book on to their chosen field days independently. The theme of the trip is "South Wales: Environments, Landscapes, Heritage and Community".

• GEG131 Cities

  There has never been a more exciting time to study cities. Since antiquity cities have been the site of disproportionate amounts of human production and consumption of all kinds, and within the last generation, they have become the places where most people on Earth live. They are also the places of the most pressing social struggles of our time. Cities afford boundless opportunities, but are also the sites of the most stark inequality on the planet. Partly as a result, cities are sites of social, political, and economic struggle, innovation, creativity and deprivation. For at least the last two hundred years, cities, modernity, globalisation, colonisation, and capitalism have been highly dependent upon each other, and as a result, making sense of cities cannot be separated from questions of cultural transformation, global capital, political upheaval, and technological change. This module will introduce you to these and related issues.

• GEG331 Dissertation Report: Geography

  The dissertation is an original, substantive and independent research project in an aspect of Geography. The dissertation research project is based on 20 - 25 days of primary research (e.g fieldwork, lab work, archive work) and several months of analysis and write-up. The end result must be less than 10,000 words of text. The dissertation offers you the chance to follow your personal interests and to demonstrate your capabilities as a Geographer. During the course of your dissertation, you will be supported by a peer-led discussion group and a staff supervisor. Lectures and guidance are delivered via this module and peer and staff led Dissertation Support Groups are delivered via GEG332. Participating in Dissertation Support Groups is vital, and is assessed and, in these groups, students will provide constructive criticism to fellow students undertaking related research projects, learning from their research problems and subsequent solutions. This support and supervision is delivered through GEG332, which is a co- requisite.

• GEG332 Dissertation Support: Geography

  This module provides structured, student-led peer-group support and academic staff group supervision for students undertaking the 30-credit 'Dissertation Report: Geography' module. This support and supervision is assessed through the submission of the Dissertation Outline and the Dissertation Support Group Reflection and Attendance Log. Working within a supervised Student Peer Group, students have the opportunity to provide constructive criticism to fellow students undertaking related research projects, learning from their research problems and subsequent solutions. Group sessions are the main support provision as student¿s work through their Dissertation. This module complements the 'Dissertation Report: Geography' module, which is a co-requisite.

• GEGM16 Advanced Research in Human Geography

  Through a series of five, weekly, 2-hour seminars devoted to the peer-group discussion of a set of prescribed texts (typically ~10 journal articles and/or book chapters), students will explore the ways in which contemporary theoretical, epistemological, and methodological debates in the social sciences inform research in Human Geography, and come to appreciate the distinctive contribution that Human Geography may offer these debates in return. Once the series of seminars is complete, students will attend a (typically) two-day / one-night residential Human Geography Theory School at Gregynog Hall, near Newtown in Powys (or similar venue), where we will again discuss the set of texts but this time with postgraduate students from the Department of Geography & Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth University, and also from the School of Geography & Planning at Cardiff University. The Theory School is a long-standing and very well-established collaboration between the three universities, and it takes place annually (usually in late March or early April) under the auspices of the Economic & Social Research Council¿s Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (ESRC Wales DTP) for the Human Geography Pathway. The overarching theme for the Theory School, and the set of ~10 texts prescribed for that theme, are curated each year in conjunction with an international expert in the field, who also delivers a keynote lecture at the Theory School. Recent themes have included racial capitalism, feminist geopolitics, non-representational theory, unreason, the unconscious, and the sacred.

• GEGM20 Dissertation

  The dissertation is an original, substantive and independent research project in any aspect of Human Geography, and engaging topics of society, environment and global change. It is typically based on approximately four months work, comprising primary research, analysis and write-up. The end result should be a 10,000 word dissertation. Support is provided by a staff supervisor and through student-led discussions. There will also be an opportunity to give constructive feedback to other students undertaking related research projects, learning from their research problems and their subsequent solutions. A presentation session (July) will be used to communicate provisional findings and gather feedback from staff and peers.

• GEGM20P Dissertation Pre-requisite Module (Society, Environment and Global Change)

  This module is a pre-requisite for GEGM20 ¿ which is the MSc dissertation module for the MSc in Society, Environment and Global Change. It prepares students for doing a dissertation. It gives students the opportunity to explore and develop their ideas to produce a feasible research project. This is done both individually and collectively in consultation with the module co-ordinator. Students are expected to complete a dissertation proposal at the end of this process, after which they will be allocated a supervisor.

• GEGM28 Society-Environment Relations

  This module will ensure that students have the critical foundations for a sophisticated consideration of the entanglements between social and environmental worlds, and of the role that Human Geography has played in developing these understandings. The module opens with a conceptual consideration of society-environment relations, and how this is embedded within both historical and contemporary trajectories of geographic thought. The module then considers ten concepts through which we might think ¿ and rethink ¿ these entanglements between humans, non-humans and the environment. In so doing it highlights how geographers can contribute to thinking afresh about global change. The module is taught through seminars, but also encourages students to reflect critically on the ideas presented via 2 creative encounters (e.g. a film, an artwork) and through a reflective reading journal.

Cefais fy magu mewn ardal wledig y tu allan i'r 'Twin Cities' ym Minnesota, U.D.A., ar adeg pan oedd yn newid yn gyflym i fod yn faestref eang. Fe wnaeth arsylwi'n uniongyrchol ar y newid yn y dirwedd effeithio’n fawr arnaf fel person ifanc, ac mae'n debyg bod hynny yn y pen draw wedi dylanwadu ar fy niddordeb mewn trefoli a daearyddiaeth. Ond, cyn fy mywyd fel academydd, bûm yn gweithio yn y sector ariannol am wyth mlynedd. Diolch i’r profiad hwn, cefais ddealltwriaeth ddofn o'r seilwaith technegol mae marchnadoedd ariannol yn dibynnu arno i weithredu, ynghyd â phrofiad uniongyrchol o fywyd gwaith a rheolaeth gorfforaethol o ddydd i ddydd, croniad cyfalafol a gwleidyddiaeth fiwrocrataidd. Er y gallai hyn esbonio fy niddordeb mewn marchnadoedd ariannol, ymhlith pethau eraill, mae'n cyfrannu hefyd at fy niddordeb parhaus yn y broses o ailstrwythuro prifysgolion i fod yn debycach i gwmnïau preifat.

Rwy'n croesawu ymholiadau gan ddarpar fyfyrwyr ôl-raddedig sydd â diddordeb mewn astudio unrhyw agwedd ar ddaearyddiaeth ariannol, arian ac ymgysylltiadau beirniadol gyda marchnadoedd ac offerynnau ariannol, a'u perthynas â gofod trefol a thechnoleg ddigidol. Rwyf hefyd yn fodlon sgwrsio â darpar fyfyrwyr sydd â diddordeb mewn prosesau cynwyddoli eraill, gwneud marc, datblygiad economaidd trefol a daearyddiaethau digidol.