Welsh Journals

WELSH GEOGRAPHICAL NEWS NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE FOLYTECHNIC PIDFESSOR COLIN WILLIAMS Congratulations to Colin Williams on his prcrnction from 1st May 1988 to Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography and Recreation Studies at North Staffordshire Polytechnic. Professor Williams took a First Class Honours degree in Politics and Geography at University College of Swansea in 1972 and was awarded his Ph.D. by the University of Wales in 1978. After a period as an English Speaking Union Scholar at the University of Western Ontario, he was appointed to a lectureship at North Staffordshire Polytechnic in 1976. Since then he has progressively moved to Senior Lecturer, then Principal Lecturer and now Professor. In 1982-83 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Residence and Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University. He currently serves on a number of ccnmittees including the Research Conmittee of the "Pwllgor Datblygu Addsg Gymraeg" (Conmittee for the Development of Welsh Education) the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages (Geolinguistic Project) and is a fouder of Centre Aldo Dami, the European Centre for Ethnclinguistic Cartography. He has published widely in three research fields ( poiitical geography, geolinguistics and ethnic relations) and has written or eiited several bcoks. From September 1988 he has been Acting Head of Department at North Staffordshire Polytechnic. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES, ABERYSTWYTH Director of the Institute of Earth Studies Professor D.Q.Bowen Professor David Q. Bowen has been appointed as the first Director of the new University College of Wales Institute of Earth Studies at Aberystwyth. The new Institute consists of the core departments of Geography and Geology, together with other cognate departments. Professor Bowen was educated at Llanelli Gramnar School and University College London and holds the degrees of B.Sc. and Ph.D. of London University. He was previously Professor of Physical Geography at Aberystwyth (1983-85) and before that successively Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader over a period of 18 years. Prior to his new appointment he was Professor of Geography and Head of Department at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. Professor Bowen is a Life Governor of U.C.Wales and is a member of the Nature Conservancy Council and a member of the Earth Science Review Canmittee of the University Grants Canmittee. He is editor-in-chief of Quaternary Science Reviews (an international multidisciplinary review journal). Professor Bowen brings with him a research team which is currently active in the South West United States, Alaska, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, using dating techniques based on thermoluminescence in sediments and amino- acid degradation in fossils. Staff News Professor John Lewin has been appointed Professor of Physical Geography from October 1988. He has been in the Department since 1968 and was awarded a Personal Chair in 1986. This year he also spent a month at Arizona State University as Distinguished Visiting Professor.