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Dr Lynda Yorke

Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography

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Room: F22, Thoday Building

Email: l.yorke@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: +44(0)1248 388 641

Lynda joined SNS in January 2012 as a Lecturer in Physical Geography, and became a Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography in February 2018. She is the Degree Programme Director for the Geography programmes at Bangor. Lynda is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Lynda has studied and worked in a number of UK Universities. She began her career at Northumbria University (BSc.), went on to Durham University (MSc.) and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Hull. She worked in industry prior to her undergraduate degree and following her Masters' degree. 

Lynda's research interests lie in reconstructing fluvial histories, glacial sedimentology. and geoarchaeology. She has a strong interest in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, paricularly within the GEES disciplines. Lynda works with colleagues in the School of Ocean Sciences and the School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences on teaching and research, reflecting her wide intrests.

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

2020-date Member, RGS-IBG Geography Programmes Accreditation Panel

2020-date Editorial Board Member, Routes Journal

2020-date External Examiner (Physical Geography), Bath Spa University

2019-date Deputy Chair, RGS-IBG Geography and Education Research Group (GeogEd)

2014-2017 Ordinary Secretary, Outreach Committee, British Society for Geomorphology (BSG)

Dr Lynda Yorke

View Dr Lynda Yorke’s profile on the Bangor Research Portal

Qualifications

  • Postgraduate Cert. Teaching Higher Education
    Aberystwyth University, 2009–2011
  • PhD: Quaternary Geology
    University of Hull, 2004–2008
  • MSc: Geomorphology and Environmental Change
    Durham University, 1999–2001
  • BSc: Geography
    Northumbria University, 1995–1998

Teaching and Supervision

I am the module organiser for: 

  • DXX-1006 Introductory Fieldwork: Snowdonia
  • DXX-2008 Geohazards, Disasters and Mitigation
  • DXX-3018 Rivers, Coasts and Oceans

I contribute to:

  • DXX 1005 Earth Systems and Processes
  • DXX 1006 Introductory Fieldwork: Snowdonia
  • DXX 1007 Academic Tutorial & Key Skills
  • ONS 1001 Environmental Data Analysis
  • OSX 1003 Earth, Climate and Evolution 
  • OSX 2011 Ice and Oceans  
  • HTA 2136/3126 Geoarchaeology
  • DXX 3707 Geography Dissertation (Honours Project)
  • DXX-4103 MGeog Dissertation

Research Interests

Reconstructing long-term river histories

Glacial sedimentology

Geoarchaeology (fluvial/coastal settings)

Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Publications

2017

  • PublishedFlooding: is it really getting worse:
    Yorke, L., 25 May 2017, In : Geology Today. 33, 3, p. 114-118
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2013

  • PublishedGlaciodynamics of the central sector of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet in Northern England
    Livingstone, S. J., Evans, D. J., Cofaigha, C. Ó., Davies, B. J., Merritt, J. W., Huddart, D., Mitchell, W. A., Roberts, D. H. & Yorke, L., 1 Feb 2013, In : Earth-Science Reviews. 111, 1-2, p. 25-55
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2012

  • PublishedDepositional history of the Tyne valley associated with retreat and stagnation of Late Devensian Ice Streams
    Yorke, L., Rumsby, B. T. & Chiverrell, R. C., 1 Aug 2012, In : Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 123, 4, p. 608-625
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2011

  • PublishedChannel bar dynamics on multi-decadal timescales in an active meandering river
    Hooke, J. M. & Yorke, L., 1 Nov 2011, In : Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 36, 14, p. 1910-1928
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2010

  • PublishedRates, distributions and mechanisms of change in meander morphology over decadal timescales, River Dane, UK
    Hooke, J. M. & Yorke, L., 1 Oct 2010, In : Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 35, 13, p. 1601-1614
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Other Information

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

MEDIA

  • BBC Radio Wales, Interview on The Day the Sea Came In. Broadcast February 2020.
  • BBC RadioWales, interview on BBC Science Café. Broadcast March 2017.
  • BBC Two/BBC One Wales, television interview/contribution to Richard Park’s Extreme Wales. Broadcast September and November 2016.
  • Skinner, C., Yorke, L. (9 December 2015). Flooding and Geomorphology [British Society for Geomorphology Press Release]. Retrieved from https://geomorphology.org.uk
  • ITV1, television interview/contribution to Bear Gryll’s ‘Britain’s Biggest Adventures’. Broadcast September 2015.
  • Daily Post Wales ‘We can’t cope with more storms’. Interview and comment on flooding. Published 11th January 2014.
  • BBC One Wales, television interview/contribution to Week In Week out ‘Holding back the floods’. Broadcast 5th November 2013. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03gq1hf

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