Dr Darrel A Swift
Lecturer in Geoscience
Room number: | E10 |
Telephone (internal): | 27959 |
Telephone (UK): | 0114 222 7959 |
Telephone (International): | +44 114 222 7959 |
Email: | D.A.Swift@Sheffield.ac.uk |
Profile |
Darrel joined the department in December 2006 as Lecturer in Geoscience. He was awarded a PhD by the University of Glasgow in 2002 and afterwards held a prestigious BP Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship at the University of Glasgow between 2003 and 2006. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in Geoscience in January 2018. Darrel is currently an Associate Editor for Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography and is a member of the International Glaciological Society and the European Geophysical Society. In addition he currently acts as an advisor to Nagra (the Swiss National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste) on issues of glacial erosion. His past internal responsibilities have included Deputy Director of Teaching and Learning, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Director of the MSc(Res) Polar and Alpine Change Programme. He has received several outstanding contribution awards, including a Faculty award for Sustained Excellence in January 2011 and two further awards In 2014 and 2016. |
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Research |
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Teaching |
Darrel’s undergraduate teaching is strongly research-led and focusses on his research interests in glaciology and glacial geomorphology. Darrel also co-leads a Level 2 research design module that is core for all programmes. This module guides students through the selection and design of a research idea that they then undertake for their Level 3 dissertation. Darrel also supervises masters’-level research projects in glaciology and landscape evolution, and he is a former director of the MSc(Res) Polar and Alpine Change Programme. Darrel currently teaches on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses including GEO248 Research Design for Geography and Environmental Science and GEO268 Glacial Environments, as well as supervising of undergraduate dissertation projects. |
Key Publications |
Swift DA & Jones A (2018) Going against the flow: testing the hypothesis of pulsed axial glacier flow. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Swift DA, Cook SJ, Graham DJ, Midgley NG, Fallick AE, Storrar R, Toubes Rodrigo M & Evans DJA (2018) Terminal zone glacial sediment transfer at a temperate overdeepened glacier system. Quaternary Science Reviews, 180, 111-131. Patton H, Swift DA, Clark CD, Livingstone SJ & Cook SJ (2016) Distribution and characteristics of overdeepenings beneath the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets: Implications for overdeepening origin and evolution. Quaternary Science Reviews, 148, 128-145. Swift DA, Cook S, Heckmann T, Moore J, Gärtner-Roer I & Korup O (2014) Ice and Snow as Land-Forming Agents, Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters (pp. 167-199). Cook SJ & Swift DA (2012) Subglacial basins: Their origin and importance in glacial systems and landscapes. Earth-Science Reviews, 115(4), 332-372. Cook SJ, Swift DA, Graham DJ & Midgley NG (2011) Origin and significance of 'dispersed facies' basal ice: Svínafellsjökull, Iceland. Journal of Glaciology, 57(204), 710-720. Swift DA, Persano C, Stuart FM, Gallagher K & Whitham A (2008) A reassessment of the role of ice sheet glaciation in the long-term evolution of the East Greenland fjord region. Geomorphology, 97(1-2), 109-125. |