Dr Hywel Griffiths
BSc MSc PhD (Cymru)
Reader
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences
Contact Details
- Email: hmg@aber.ac.uk
- Office: E5, Llandinam Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622674
- Personal Website: https://hywelgriffiths.cymru/en/hafan/home/
- Twitter: @HywelGriffiths
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=iqBpfv4AAAAJ
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- Personal Pronouns: he / him
Profile
Biography
- 2022-present: Reader in Physical Geography through the medium of Welsh, Aberystwyth University
- 2015-2022: Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography through the medium of Welsh
- 2009-2015: Lecturer in Physical Geography through the medium of Welsh
- 2008-2009: Welsh medium teaching fellow
- 2006-2009: Phd, Aberystwyth University
- 2005: MSc River Basin Dynamics and Management, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
- 2004: BSc Physical Geography and Mathematics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- GS31120 - Applied Environmental Management
- GS11520 - How to Build a Planet
- DA11520 - Sut i Greu Planed
- DA22510 - Geomorffoleg Afonol
Lecturer
- GS35240 - Environmental Science Dissertation
- GS21120 - Physical Geography and Environmental Science Research Design and Fieldwork Skills
- PGM4940 - Work Based Research in Professional Contexts
- GS34220 - Geography Joint Honours/Major Project
- GS20020 - Geography Research Design and Fieldwork Skills
- GS34040 - Geography Dissertation
- GS21420 - Environmental Earth Science Research Design and Fieldwork Skills
- GS21520 - Human Geography Research Design and Fieldwork Skills
- GS25210 - Catchment Systems
- DA25420 - Dylunio Ymchwil a Sgiliau Gwaith Maes
- DA10320 - Ymchwilio'r Byd: Casglu a Dadansoddi Data
Coordinator
- GS11520 - How to Build a Planet
- GS31120 - Applied Environmental Management
- DA22510 - Geomorffoleg Afonol
- DA11520 - Sut i Greu Planed
Tutor
Research
Group Affiliation
Research Interests
- Rates, pattens and controls of fluvial processes.
- The impact of anthropogenic activities on fluvial processes.
- The impact of Holocene environmental change on fluvial systems.
- The long term development of the fluvial landscape of Wales.
- Theoretical geomorphology, especially complexity and self organised criticality.
- Using historical documentary sources to infer geomorphological and climatic change.
- Hydropolitics and cultural geographies of rivers.
Current projects
- PI: Can we harness knowledge of extreme geomorphological events to promote sustainable tourism? (funded by the Joy Welch Trust)
- PI: Scaling bedrock erosional processes across space and time: from pothole dynamics to gorge development (BSG funded)
- PI: Remembering a hydrographic society: flooding, drought, adaptation and culture in the Welsh colony of Patagonia, Argentina (funded by the British Academy)
- Co-I: SusNet Wales (Sustainability Network Wales): A collaborative multidisciplinary platform for inspiration and transformation of the next generation (RCUK funded)
MPhil Supervision
- Marc Huband (2013)
- Janet Richardson (2013)
Research Groups
Publications
Griffiths, H 2024, 'Agoriad', Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory, vol. 1, no. 1. <https://agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/27/files/6752a47e0d6ec.pdf>
Forino, G, Lynda, Y, del Pinto, M, Griffiths, H, Barker, L, Bates, M, Brummage, S, Davidson, A, Davies, S, Paterson, C, Roberts, H, Robinson, G & Webb, A, An interdisciplinary research agenda for climate change and cultural heritage, 2024, Web publication/site, Royal Geographical Society. <https://blog.geographydirections.com/2024/09/18/an-interdisciplinary-research-agenda-for-climate-change-and-cultural-heritage/>
Griffiths, H 2024, 'Llifogydd yr Archif: afonydd ardal Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Rhondda Cynon Taf', Modron Magazine. <https://modronmagazine.com/2024/12/16/llifogydd-yr-archif-afonydd-ardal-eisteddfod-genedlaethol-rhondda-cynon-taf-2024-gan-hywel-griffiths/>
Corns, A, Shaw, R, Shine, L, Henry, S, Pollard, E, Driver, T, Barker, L, Hunt, D, Davies, S, Robson, P, Griffiths, H, Barry, J, Craven, K & Cullen, S 2023, CHERISH: Development of a Toolkit for the 3D Documentation and Analysis of the Marine and Coastal Historic Environment. in 3D Imaging of the Environment: Mapping and Monitoring. 1st edn, Taylor & Francis, pp. 138-162. 10.1201/9780429327575-9
Griffiths, H 2023, 'Introducing Geomorphology: A Guide to Landforms and Processes', Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, vol. 134, no. 2, pp. 247-248. 10.1016/j.pgeola.2022.12.004
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