Looking Back and Moving Forward: A Year in Review from Your Library

Presenting our Library Action Plan 2024 – 2025

As another academic year draws to a close, we’re excited to share some of the milestones and key developments from your Library Services in 2024–25.

It’s been another busy year for the library as our users continue to borrow thousands of books and ebooks, access thousands of journal articles, and make use of our expanding range of digital resources and physical spaces. Reading lists remain a core part of your academic work and our library staff are always working to make sure the books, articles, and resources you need most are at your fingertips. Our Subject Librarians continue to provide specialist support and advice to all staff and students and our Resource Discovery team help facilitate and disseminate the University’s world-class research.

Browse our Library Action Plans to find out how Library Services have supported your teaching, learning, and research at Aberystwyth University over the past year.

Thursday 17 July – Congratulations to today’s Graduates!

Congratulations to our Education, History & Welsh History, TFTS, Law and English & Creative Writing PhD and MPhil graduates today

Take a look at their theses on Aberystwyth Research Portal on the links below

Ceremony 5 @ 1000

Panna Karlinger, The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower: A Mixed-Methods Study of Cyberbullying and Online Abuse among University Students through the Lens of the Dark Tetrad and a Scoping Study of Staff Victimisation in Higher Education Institutions in England and Wales (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/the-dark-side-of-the-ivory-tower)

Ewan Lawry, The Anti-Appeasers: A study of the parliamentary opposition to the National Government’s foreign and defence policies Ewan Lawry (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/the-anti-appeasers)

Ceremony 6 @ 1330

Jeremy Turner, Chwaraea hwnna, dad!: Nodweddion hanfodol prosesau creadigol mewn theatr i gynulleidfaoedd ifanc yng nghyd-destun diwylliant ac iaith leiafrifol (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/chwaraea-hwnna-dad)

Ceremony 7 @ 1630

Manon Chirgwin, Age of Criminal Responsibility in England & Wales: Are the Government Correct to Maintain the Current Age? (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/age-of-criminal-responsibility-in-england-wales)

Samantha Ryan, Imagining untold history: A critical commentary on Women in White (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/imagining-untold-history)

Wednesday 16 July – Congratulations to today’s Graduates!

Congratulations to our Psychology and IBERS PhD and MPhil graduates today

Take a look at their theses on Aberystwyth Research Portal on the links below

Ceremony 3 @ 1030

Alanna Allen-Cousins, Are We Really Addicted?: A Mixed Methods Investigation into Smartphone Addiction and Smartphone Use in the 21st Century (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/are-we-really-addicted)

Gwenann Mair Jones, Examining the effectiveness of the Ceredigion Youth Offending Team in reducing further offending within the context of vulnerability (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/examining-the-effectiveness-of-the-ceredigion-youth-offending-tea)

Ceremony 4 @ 1400

Steven Bourne, Using Dielectric Spectroscopy to Detect and Predict the Real-Time Transition From the Yeast-Like to the Hyphal Phenotype of the Pleiomorphic Yeast Species Candida tropicalis (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/using-dielectric-spectroscopy-to-detect-and-predict-the-real-time)

Eleanor Furness, Ecophysiological adaptation in cryoconite bacteria and the relationship to horizontal gene transfer (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/ecophysiological-adaptation-in-cryoconite-bacteria-and-the-relati)

Hannah Vallin, Advancing Dietary Analysis in Herbivores: testing, validating, and deploying faecal DNA metabarcoding for accurate diet composition assessment (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/advancing-dietary-analysis-in-herbivores)

Tuesday 15 July – Congratulations to today’s Graduates!

Congratulations to our Computer Science, Information Studies and Business School PhD and MPhil graduates today

Take a look at their theses on Aberystwyth Research Portal on the links below

Ceremony 1 @ 1030

Xiang Chang, Robotic Imitation Learning from Videos: Boosting Autonomy and Transferability. https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/robotic-imitation-learning-from-videos

Jessica Charlton, A Comparison of the Performance of Human and Algorithmic Segmentations on Low-Contrast Martian Rock Images. https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/a-comparison-of-the-performance-of-human-and-algorithmic-segmenta

Patrick Fletcher, Monitoring Coastal Sediment Movement using Edge Computing. https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/monitoring-coastal-sediment-movement-using-edge-computing

Arshad Sher, Automating gait analysis using a smartphone. https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/automating-gait-analysis-using-a-smartphone

Ceremony 2 @ 1400

Afrin Mustakkima, Analysis of Pollution In The River Buriganga, Its Impact, And Policy Options For Improving Water Quality. https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/analysis-of-pollution-in-the-river-buriganga-its-impact-and-polic

Hamad Alblooshi, Identifying Operations Effectiveness Between Different Cultural Teams: Issues and Challenges a Case in the Military Organisation. https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/identifying-operations-effectiveness-between-different-cultural-t

Ahmed Alburkani, The role of leadership style in influencing innovation and organisational performance: A mixed-methods study of the Abu Dhabi government sector (public sector) https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/the-role-of-leadership-style-in-influencing-innovation-and-organi

Shaima Alhosani, Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) Approaches For Digital Urban Heritage Management (UHM) of Al Ain City’s Landscape. https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/sustainable-urban-development-sud-approaches-for-digital-urban-he

Mariam Almazrouei, The Role of Leadership in Promoting Organizational Safety Culture in the Government Sector of Abu-Dhabi, the UAE. https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/the-role-of-leadership-in-promoting-organizational-safety-culture

Mohammed Ibrahim, The role of social media influencers in purchase intentions of social media users: A study of purchases from influencers’ virtual boutiques in Qatar. https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/the-role-of-social-media-influencers-in-purchase-intentions-of-so

Lisa Kelly-Roberts, Perceptions of Career Success in the Construction Industry in Wales. https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/perceptions-of-career-success-in-the-construction-industry-in-wal

Masni Mat Dong, Exploring the Multidimensional Poverty of Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia: A Mixed-Methods Study Using the Capability Approach and Spatial Justice Framework. https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/exploring-the-multidimensional-poverty-of-orang-asli-in-peninsula