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
- DA22510 - Geomorffoleg Afonol
- DA11220 - Methodoleg Maes Amgylcheddol
- DA11520 - Sut i Greu Planed
- GS11520 - How to Build a Planet
- GS31120 - Applied Environmental Management
Coordinator
- GS31120 - Applied Environmental Management
- DA11220 - Methodoleg Maes Amgylcheddol
- GS11520 - How to Build a Planet
- DA11520 - Sut i Greu Planed
- DA22510 - Geomorffoleg Afonol
Tutor
- EAM4520 - Managing Environmental Change in Practice
- DA34040 - Traethawd Estynedig Daearyddiaeth
- EAM4420 - Behaviour Change in a Changing Environment
- EAM4220 - Investigating Environmental Change: Fieldwork
- EAM4660 - Dissertation in Environmental Change Impacts and Adaptation
Lecturer
- GS25210 - Catchment Systems
- GS34040 - Geography Dissertation
- GS34220 - Geography Joint Honours/Major Project
- GS21520 - Human Geography Research Design and Fieldwork Skills
- GS20020 - Geography Research Design and Fieldwork Skills
- DA25420 - Dylunio Ymchwil a Sgiliau Gwaith Maes
- GS21120 - Physical Geography and Environmental Science Research Design and Fieldwork Skills
- GS21420 - Environmental Earth Science Research Design and Fieldwork Skills
- PGM4940 - Work Based Research in Professional Contexts
- GS35240 - Environmental Science Dissertation
- PGM9005 - Ethics, Plagiarism and Academic Practice for Research Students
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
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, Tooth, S & Kaless, G 2023, Exploring 'y paith': historical and contemporary perceptions of desert environments in Patagonia, Argentina. in Storied Deserts.
Williams, R, Griffiths, H, Carr, RJ, Hepburn, A, Gibson, M, Williams, J & Irvine-Fynn, T 2022, 'Integrating historical, geomorphological and sedimentological insights to reconstruct past floods: Insights from Kea Point, Mt. Cook Village, Aotearoa New Zealand', Geomorphology, vol. 398, 108028. 10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.108028
Roberts, D, Tooth, S & Griffiths, H 2022, The River and the Rock: river potholes of Wales. Gwasg Carreg Gwalch.
Roberts, D, Griffiths, H & Tooth, S 2022, Yr Afon a'r Graig: ceubyllau afonydd Cymru. Gwasg Carreg Gwalch.
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