To promote and encourage school spirit among our alumni community, connecting them with other alumni, with the school, and with the ASFM community, including students, faculty & staff, and families. Tawney Junior Research Fellow (2012-13), at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. I have experience of archival and library based research and will be using my historical skills in conducting research in local, regional and national collections along with oral history interviews in order to investigate the timing, frequency and impacts of historical and contemporary extreme weather events in various case study regions across the United Kingdom.American School Foundation of (81) 2187 0119
Winchester, examined the governance and management of common land in Shropshire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. I was the Economic History Society’s R.H. Returning to Lancaster, my doctoral thesis, supervised by Professor A.J.L. I completed a BA in History at Lancaster University including an Erasmus exchange at the University of Copenhagen, before pursuing an MA in English Local History at the University of Leicester. I now much prefer the warmth and sunshine of a glorious (but seemingly increasingly rare) British summer, which leads to a good, easy harvest and more leisurely times on the farm.Įmail: interests include economic and social history, specifically the rural agrarian history of the British Isles, aspects of environmental history, landscape studies, and local and regional history, ranging chronologically between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. However, my childhood favourite has become a real menace since I moved to live on my husband’s farm in addition to isolating me from the rest of the world, it means time-consuming work to keep the water flowing and sheep well-fed. It didn’t occur very often when I was a child, but I always welcomed the chance to dust off the sledge, gather my cousins and go in search of the steepest hill. Snow has always been my favourite type of weather. My research to date focuses on climatic and environmental history and human responses to unusual or extreme weather, mostly in Wales since the nineteenth century. Being married to a farmer, I know only too well how much of an impact a dry summer or a particularly cold spring can have on grass growth!Įmail: have been a lecturer in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth University since February 2013, having contributed to the department’s Welsh-medium provision since 2008 whilst undertaking my PhD. Having worked further afield for a number of years, I’m excited to be working on a project which connects with the community in which I live. In recent years, I have been developing research interests closer to home and began working with Neil Macdonald and Cerys Jones to explore the rich archival resource here in Wales. I was introduced to the incredible potential of documentary sources as a tool for investigating past weather and climate through my research in Mexico. My work has often involved working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, which I find particularly rewarding – the differing perspectives offered by researchers from science and social science backgrounds is refreshing and fun. Much of my research has focused on reconstructing past environmental change using lake sediments, particularly in tropical regions such as Mexico and East Africa. I am a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth University, where I have been based since 2002.
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