Dr Lynda Yorke
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Affiliations
Contact info
Room: F22, Thoday Building
Email: l.yorke@bangor.ac.uk
Phone: +44(0)1248 388 641
Lynda is a Quaternary geomorphologist, with principal emphasis in fluvial and pro-glacial sequences. Her doctoral research was focused on northern England, and the River Tyne sequences that developed post-glacially. She is interested in Quaternary environmental change and fluvial histories, including geoarchaeology, relict glacial environments, and flood risk and hazards. In addition, Lynda has research interests in the Geographies of Education, Inclusion and Accessibility in Environmental Science, and the use of Virtual Technologies to Enhance Learning.
From May 2023 to March 2024, she was PI on the NERC-funded Growing Roots Environmental Science Public Engagement 'Shore to Shelter' grant. She was also awarded a Learned Society of Wales Research Workshop grant (ClicherNet4Wales) in March 2023. From Dec 2021 to May 2022, she was PI on the NERC-funded CULTIVATE project (‘Digital Technologies to open up environmental sciences’), and co-I on the NERC-funded project ‘More Inclusive Fieldwork’ (‘Making environmental science equal, diverse and inclusive’). From Jan to Mar 2023, she was co-I on the NERC-funded ClicHerComm project (Discovery Science).
She is the Degree Programme Director for the Geography programmes at Bangor. She is a member of the Equality Network Steering Commitee within the School of Natural Sciences. Lynda is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). She is the Chair of the RGS-IBG Geography and Education Research Group (GeogEd). In 2021, she co-founded the TeaS (teaching and scholarship) collective.
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. She worked as a Junior Research Associate in the early 2000s on a number of Aggregate Levy Funded projects. She was a post-doc at the University of Liverpool.
MEDIA
Lynda is available for media contact. She has experience of both radio and televsion (BBC and ITV), pre-recorded and live delivery.
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2023-date External Examiner (Geography) Trinity College Dublin
2021-date Chair, RGS-IBG Geography and Education Research Group (GeogEd)
2021-date External Examiner (Physical Geography/Hazards) University of Chester
2020-2023 Member, RGS-IBG Geography Programmes Accreditation Panel
2020-2023 Editorial Board Member, Routes Journal
2019-2023 External Examiner (Physical Geography), Bath Spa University
2019-2021 Deputy Chair, RGS-IBG Geography and Education Research Group (GeogEd)
2014-2017 Ordinary Secretary, Outreach Committee, British Society for Geomorphology (BSG)
- 2024
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Co-creating an inclusivity benefit assessment for fieldwork
Lynda Yorke (Speaker) & Naomi Holmes (Speaker)
6 Apr 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Coastal Communities Community Event
Lynda Yorke (Contributor), Giuseppe Fornino (Organiser), Hayley Roberts (Contributor), Corinna Patterson (Contributor), Michael Roberts (Contributor), Sofie Roberts (Contributor) & Alex Ioannou (Contributor)
26 Mar 2024Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
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Inclusive and Accessible Fieldwork
Lynda Yorke (Speaker) & Naomi Holmes (Speaker)
31 Jan 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
- 2023
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Inclusive and Accessible Fieldwork: The CULTIVATE Project
Lynda Yorke (Speaker)
6 Dec 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Planning for Inclusive Fieldwork
Lynda Yorke (Speaker) & Naomi Holmes (Speaker)
28 Nov 2023 → 7 Dec 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Responding to a Dynamic Environment—A Long View of Coastal and Maritime Communities in North Wales.
Gary Robinson (Speaker) & Lynda Yorke (Speaker)
15 Jul 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Building Inclusivity and accessibility into your fieldwork
Lynda Yorke (Speaker) & Naomi Holmes (Speaker)
14 Apr 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Climate Heritage and Climate Change Communitcation Outreach Event
Lynda Yorke (Contributor)
22 Mar 2023Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
- 2022
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Sharing outcomes and good practice from the CULTIVATE project.
Lynda Yorke (Speaker), Liz Hurrell (Speaker) & Simon Hutchinson (Speaker)
21 Nov 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Game on ... beyond VFTs!
Lynda Yorke (Speaker)
14 Sept 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Are Digital Visualisation Resources (DVR) a valid tool for post pandemic Geography?
Lynda Yorke (Invited speaker)
1 Sept 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Geography and Environmental Science
Lynda Yorke (Invited speaker)
31 Aug 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Growing an inclusive teaching environment
Lynda Yorke (Speaker), Liz Hurrell (Speaker) & Simon Hutchinson (Speaker)
30 Aug 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Supporting and extending student field experiences with virtual reality: the ‘More Inclusive Fieldwork’ project
Des McDougall (Speaker), Simon Hutchinson (Speaker) & Lynda Yorke (Speaker)
30 Aug 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Growing an inclusive (field) teaching environment.
Lynda Yorke (Speaker), Liz Hurrell (Speaker) & Simon Hutchinson (Speaker)
29 Jun 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation