Dr Rhys Dafydd Jones

Lecturer in Human Geography (Coleg Cenedlaethol Cymru and Aberystwyth University)
BA (Hons)MA PhD (Wales) Photograph of Dr Rhys Dafydd Jones.

Contact

Email: rhj@aber.ac.uk
Office: K5
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622 647
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622 659

Responsibilities



Teaching Areas

Module Coordinator

  • DA10210 Cefn Gwlad a’r Ddinas: prosesau o newid a gwrthdaro
  • GGM3620 Postgraduate Work Experience

Contributor

  • DA10810 Amgylchedd Cymru
  • DA10910 Methodoleg Maes Amgylcheddol
  • DA12810 Byw Gyda Risg
  • GG13020 Key Skills for Geographers
  • DA21210 Profiad Gwaith Daearyddiaeth
  • DA22110 Tiwrorial yr Ail Flwyddyn
  • DA25610 Daearyddiaethau Cyfalafaieth Hwyr
  • DA28410 Daearyddiaeth Wleidyddol
  • GG24420 Geography Fieldwork (Dublin)
  • GG28310 Political Gegoraphy
  • DA/GG34020 Traethawd Hir/Dissertation
  • DA34220 PRosiect Anrhydedd Cyfun/Prif Bwnc
  • GGM 3420 Regional Policy and Development

Research

Group Affiliation

  • New Political Geographies

Research Interests

Rhys’s research interests are concerned with the relationships between multiculturalism, minority nationalism, and minority rights.  His PhD thesis, Faith, Identity, and the Everyday: the quotidian geographies of Muslims in west Wales examined the way that Muslims in the region create a place for themselves in an area where there are discursive absences regarding their presence and at a time when Muslims are widely vilified.  Developing on this research, which found that the everyday lives of Muslims in the region are characterised by navigating absences of services and the adaption and appropriation of makeshift and contingent spaces, Rhys has collaborated with Dr Sarah Mills and Aberystwyth PhD students James Robinson and Jennifer Turner on projects that deal with the theoretical and social aspects of absence and presence.

Alongside these issues, Rhys also has an interest in aspects relating to inclusive citizenship and social exclusion and conflict in non-metropolitan areas.

Biography

Rhys graduated with a first-class honours degree in Geography and International Politics in 2006.  After being awarded a Welsh-Medium Teaching Postgraduate Scholarship by the Centre for the Development of Welsh-Medium Higher Education in July 2006, Rhys took his MA in Space, Place and Politics in 2007, and completed his PhD in 2011 under the supervision of Professors Rhys Jones and Mike Woods.  He formally joined the Institute’s staff in October 2010 as a Welsh-Medium Teaching Fellow.  In August 2011 Rhys was appointed Welsh-Medium Lecturer in Human Geography, financed by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and Aberystwyth University.  Rhys has been involved with Welsh-medium teaching since 2006, and is excited to be part of such an innovative development in regards to Welsh-medium higher education.

Staff Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles & Book Chapters

2012

  1. Dafydd Jones, Rh., Robinson, J., and Turner, J. 2012. 'Introduction - between absence and presence: geographies of hidning, invisibility, and silence', Space and Polity 16 (3) pp 257-263.
  2. Dafydd Jones, Rh. 2012. 'Negotiating absence and presence: rural Muslims and "subterranean" sacred space', Space and Polity 16 (3) pp 335-350.

2010

  1. Dafydd Jones R. 2010. Islam and the rural landscape: discourses of absence in west Wales. Social and Cultural Geography 11 (8) pp751-768.

Conference Proceedings

2010

  1. Panellist, 'Geographies of Spirituality, Religion and Faith', Royal Geographic Society Annual Conference, 1st September 2010, London.
  2. 'Between presence and absence: the everyday geographies of Muslims in west Wales', University of Wales Council for Geography Annual Meeting, 14th May 2010, Gregynog Hall, Newtown.
  3. 'University Challenges: religion, the everyday, and campus politics', Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 16th April 2010, Washington DC.
  4. Mills, Sarah and Dafydd Jones, Rhys 'Geographies of the hidden citizen: spaces and subjects of the subordinate', Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 16th April 2010, Washington DC.
  5. 'University Challenges: religion, the everyday, and campus politics', Geographies of Religion: a new dialogue, 9th March 2010, Newcastle University.
  6. 'University Challenges: religion, the everyday, and campus politics', RGS-IBG Mid-term Conference, 6th March 2010, Aberystwyth University.