Libraries Week 2022 – Students

The theme of this year’s Libraries Week is the central role that libraries play in supporting life-long learning.

Today, we are focusing on the ways the library offers a range of learning opportunities for Aberystwyth University students, beyond their courses and outside of the teaching rooms.

Library tours If you’re new to Aberystwyth University, firstly, welcome! Secondly, come on a library tour! Our friendly staff are here to show you around and introduce you to your library. There’s no need to book in advance and everyone is welcome – times and other information here.

You’ll see our virtual tour of the Hugh Owen Library below and here’s our handy A to Z of Library services to get you up to speed.

Software and IT services Take a look at our webpages for some of the IT Services and resources available. If you need help or advice, you can contact the Service Desk team online or by phone.

Fiction and reading for pleasure There’s no shortage of books in our libraries and if you’re looking for something to read – that’s not a course textbook – we can help! Browse Primo the library catalogue online to find books and ebooks, take a look at our Contemporary Fiction collection by the Enquiries Desk on Level F, browse the shelves from classmark PN or in the Celtic Collection. We also have graphic novels and lots of non-fiction and poetry.

Visit Primo, the library catalogue to have a look.

Contemporary fiction collection in the Hugh Owen Library

Linkedin Learning All AU students have free, unlimited access to thousands of expert-led online courses from Linkedin Learning. Here’s a small selection of courses that might spark some new hobbies or interests and help you develop new skills put together by Laurie Stevenson, Student Digital Champion:

Extra-curricular activities for students collection This is a collection of courses containing a variety of skills and creative activities you might be interested in learning alongside your studies, as a break from assignments or to fill a moment of boredom!

 Laurie Stevenson

Learn Welsh Fancy learning or improving your Welsh whilst you’re at Aber? Look no further than the Celtic Collection! The collection contains hundreds of books to help you learn and develop your Welsh language skills, from complete language courses and grammar books to fiction with helpful vocabulary.

Find it on Level F:

Welsh-language learning resources in the Celtic Collection

Library Guides Familiarise yourself with the library’s range of LibGuides. Not only will you find your specialist subject guide to help you find resources for your subject, but also a range of guides to help you make the most of the library, develop your information literacy skills and enhance your employability.

These guides have been compiled by your Subject Librarians who are here to help you with academic and specialist resources for your studies. They can help you to find and evaluate the information that you need and help you to reference it correctly. Find the contact details for your subject on the Subject Librarians page

Borrow DVDs You can borrow DVDs for free from our large DVD collection on Level F. Take a look through what we have on Primo, the library catalogue

DVD collection

Read Well – Wellbeing collection The library’s Wellbeing Collection is here to help you understand and manage many common mental health conditions or difficult feelings and experiences. You can have a look at the list of titles included in the collection on the Read Well reading list which is organised by topic areas to help you find what you need.

Watch this short video to learn more:

Graduation 2022 Wednesday 13th, Thursday 14th & Friday 15th July

Graduates at Aberystwyth University

Congratulations to these students who are graduating on the following days

You can read their theses in the Aberystwyth Research Portal by clicking on the links

Wednesday 13th July

Physics

Llyr Humphries ‘Studies in chromospheric and transition region events and their relationship with the corona using IRIS and AIA’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/b85c1f59-36fb-4d1b-a351-4bce858102e2


Thursday 14th July

Law & Criminology

Roger Owen ‘Dealing with child offenders: An examination of some aspects of juvenile justice systems and a proposal for reform based on the needs of the individual child’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/19f33534-0de6-4df8-9b9a-1d21651f9174

Megan Talbot ‘A comparative examination of methods of legal recognition of non-binary gender and intersex identity’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/b8b9844d-6814-4455-9af1-2794f4d8f161

Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences

Nick Dimonaco ‘ORFs, StORFs and Pseudogenes: Uncovering Novel Genomic Knowledge in Prokaryotic and Viral Genomes’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/7ec11bc9-57b4-4acc-94ff-ef99986e8a31


Friday 15th July

Geography & Earth Sciences

Rachel Lilley ‘Rethinking Government Capacities to Tackle Wicked Problems: Mind, Emotion, Bias and Decision-Making. An Experimental Trial using Mindfulness and Behavioural Economics’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/c119949d-43de-43eb-ab85-6ca2a3aba425

Graduation 2022 Tuesday 12th July

Graduates in the Great Hall

Congratulations to the following students who graduate today!

You can read their theses in the Aberystwyth Research Portal by clicking on the links

Physics

Benjamen Reed ‘Developments in the Catalytic Graphitisation of Diamond and Silicon Carbide Surfaces’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/43e778c7-99d1-420b-903b-8f426bef7d9a

English and Creative Writing

Kittie Belltree ‘Photograph albums of the dead: Imagining the unsayable through poetry’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/12005

Simon Jones ‘My Rosalind: A Novel and Critical Commentary’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/94c9ec09-e0e4-49f6-aa6e-cf66cc758181

International Politics

Emma Kast ‘Capitalism and the Logic of Deservingness: Understanding Meritocracy through Political Economy’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/eee80e95-6d8b-4e26-9ec1-72eb5af24d4b

Thomas Vaughan ‘South Africa and Nuclear Order: Between ‘Local’ Technopolitics and ‘global’ Hegemony’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/073ddb26-50db-4ee8-8e11-449c90c2c271

Graduation 2022 Monday 11th July

Graduating students
Graduating students

Congratulations to the following students who graduate today!


You can read their theses in the Aberystwyth Research Portal by clicking on the links

Computer Science

Edore Akpokodje ‘Effective mobile query systems for rural farmers’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/d8193099-77c7-4c43-8afa-9a83e96b2cd7

Emmanuel Isibor ‘Exploring the Concept of Navigability for Virtual Learning Environments’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/eedfaa52-0c74-4f46-ad60-ac06e9d8eb40

Suresh Kumar ‘Learning with play behaviour in artificial agents’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/a53c855c-e6b2-4a93-886e-914d11bf1528

Mathematics

Tirion Roberts ‘Modelling foam flow through vein-like geometries’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/cba4f24d-c09b-4a15-a678-7ffe7d333ee4

Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences

Cameron Garty ‘Oxidative Heterodimerisation Of 4’- Hydroxycinnamate Esters With 4’-Hydroxycinnamic Acids As Potential HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors And Identification Of Two Novel Homoisoflavonoids With Anti-cancer Potential’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/6f2a9a52-4d49-4af7-8155-f4ac7d92d781

Sam Harvey ‘Assessing the Feasibility of an Over 60’s One-Day Health and Functional Fitness Workshop’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/d1afbc7e-a55a-48ce-8660-da11585f1039

Robert Jacques ‘Vermicomposting manure: ecology and horticultural use’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/cecb9239-6b6c-478d-837b-f0b15fb028a0

Rachel Stafford ‘Investigating Metabolic Changes Associated with Human Oncology’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/328dd80a-0c58-44d4-9933-6afec6df973f

Nathan Allen ‘Molecular approaches to uncover the fundamental biology of Calicophoron daubneyi’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/54faf6be-b293-497a-99d7-b91d1725f0d5

Sumana Bhowmick ‘Exploiting Traditional Chinese Medicine for Potential Anti-Microbial Drug Leads’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/3fe3a15c-1bb8-46c4-b2df-206a5319e11d

Clare Collett ‘Towards the penside detection of triclabendazole efficacy against Fasciola hepatica parasites of livestock’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/ed4005f0-5186-439f-ae71-9f1bd080f6c6

Christina Cox ‘Cocksfoot breeding for the emerging sector of by product biorefining’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/caf17688-4a5b-4746-b4af-679176ecd345

Holly Craven ‘Analysis of quadrupliex DNA structures in Schistosoma mansoni and their potential as therapetic targets’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/d05ee9e6-5759-44c7-8dc2-4c45afd8349a

David Cutress ‘Towards validation of the sigma class GSTs from the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica as chemotherapeutic targets’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/a6347525-bbd9-4269-be09-2eca9315307a

Rebecca Entwistle ‘Targeting endophytic bacteria for plant growth promotion and heavy metal tolerance’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/6de2bd1d-a386-42d0-86fa-b07fbb26328c

Jessica Friedersdorff ‘Studying the Understudied: Hyper Ammonia Producing Bacteria And Bacteriophages in the Rumen Microbiome’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/29a04747-63d5-414a-b83b-d668e34f81fd

Gina Martinez ‘Understanding the phenotypic and genetic mechanisms of plant-plant interactions’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/6e4edefe-a2df-4558-bcdd-8561e45824f0

Nicholas Gregory ‘Evaluating the efficacy of a GP led pre diabetes intervention targeting lifestyle modification’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/b7773d30-1393-4b7a-9e56-0f4bfbbed9fd

Amy Healey ‘Understanding the phenotypic and genetic mechanisms of plant-plant interactions’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/6e4edefe-a2df-4558-bcdd-8561e45824f0

Rebecca Hindhaugh ‘The effect of mechanical perturbation on the growth and development of wheat’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/f02d9825-efac-4064-a8a5-5e793d886d09

Rosario Iacono ‘Miscanthus biomass quality for conversion: exploring the effect of genetic background and nutrient limitation on the cell wall’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/92c1700d-7190-493d-8dce-9bf2a8b66ee3

Gilda Padalino ‘Identification of new compounds targeting the Schistosoma mansoni protein methylation machinery’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/3518109d-506b-4caa-a442-f1e18356e803

Manod Williams ‘Machine Learning for Dairy Cow Behaviour Classification’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/0198dc84-48b6-48f4-b4bc-23c860bf825e