Dr Lynda Yorke

Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography

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 communication around climate change and cultural heritage and climate risks, geographies of education, inclusion and accessibility in geosciences, 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. 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)

 

  1. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
  2. Published

    Channel 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 journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Depositional 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 journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Flooding: is it really getting worse:

    Yorke, L., 25 May 2017, In: Geology Today. 33, 3, p. 114-118

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Glaciodynamics 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 journalArticlepeer-review

  6. E-pub ahead of print

    Lateglacial and early Holocene evolution of the Tyne Valley in response to climatic shifts and possible paraglacial landscape legacies

    Yorke, L., Chiverrell, R. & Schwenninger, J-L., 1 Dec 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geomorphology.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Looking ahead to the future of GeogEd: Creating spaces of exchange between communities of practice.

    Finn, M., Hammond, L., Healy, G., Todd, J., Marvell, A., McKendrick, J. & Yorke, L., Mar 2022, In: Area. 54, 1, p. 41-51 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Rates, 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 journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Article › Research
  10. Preliminary investigations of outwash environments in the Tyne Valley: implications for Late Devensian (Dimlington Stadial) deglaciation.

    Yorke, L., Fuller, I., Howard, A. & Passmore, D., 10 Apr 2007, Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 118, 2, p. 201 211 p.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publicationArticle

  11. Other contribution › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  12. Published

    Cultivate Project Website

    Yorke, L., Hutchinson, S. & Hurrell, L., 31 May 2022

    Research output: Other contribution

  13. Published

    More Inclusive Fieldwork Website

    McDougall, D., Hutchinson, S. & Yorke, L., 31 May 2022

    Research output: Other contribution

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