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 /»«br /»«br /» «br /»«br /»«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 (cyfredol)

  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.

• GEG346 Capital and Labour in the 21st century

  This module examines the geographies of work, production, and exchange in 21st century capitalism. Since the 1970s, capital¿s quest for profit has resulted in a distinctly flexible economy, but also an economy that has expanded into social and cultural spheres where some believe it does not belong. At the same time, both the capital and labour of this expansive and flexible economy are fixed, both in and by geography. Spatially, production has become associated with agglomeration into districts and clusters, while simultaneously globalisation enables firms to spread across geographic scales more than at any time in history. When it comes to the digital economy, many would argue that production is happening anywhere and everywhere that we are online. Not surprisingly then, along with changes in the geographies of production, the nature of the firm and the commodities those firms produce have changed. All of this has resulted in various struggles and crises, of capitalism, of production, of politics, and even of everyday life. It has also blurred the boundaries of what might be considered `economic¿, and as such, has necessitated new methods of research and new ways of `knowing¿ economic geographies. The module begins by considering at the same time the changing nature of capitalism and the academic discipline of economic geography. We will discuss several of the key theoretical frameworks available for making sense of the spaces of 21st century capitalism, including social, institutional and evolutionary perspectives. From there we explore the geographies of capitalist production and exchange of some of the important commodities of the 21st century including money, land, and knowledge. The relationship between people as labourers, a troublesome commodity, and capital will be covered extensively in the latter section of the module.

• 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.

• 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.