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
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=iqBpfv4AAAAJ
- Personal Website: https://hywelgriffiths.cymru/en/hafan/home/
- Research Portal Profile (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/persons/f7f08d73-1f91-47d3-8f7f-e2d42b8f072c)
- Personal Pronouns: he / him
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
- AB1 Sut i Greu Planed (DA11520)
- AB1 Prosesau Rhewlifol ac Afonol (DA25520)
- AB1 How to Build a Planet (GS11520)
- AB1 Glacial and Fluvial Processes (GS25520)
- AB2 Applied Environmental Management (GS31120)
Module Coordinator
Group Affiliation
- Earth Surface Processes
Research Interests
- Fluvial and coastal geomorphology
- Rates, pattens and controls of fluvial and coastal processes.
- The impact of environmental change on fluvial and coastal processes
- The long term development of the landscape of Wales.
- Extending flood and drought chronologies using archival and sedimentary records.
- Cultural and creative geographies of rivers.
Current projects
- Transformative Research Actions for Resilient Coastal Communities
PhD Supervision
- Jayesh Mukherjee
- Cara Jones
- Nuala Dunn
- Blue Bell
A thriving early-mid Holocene river? Emerging geochronological evidence from the Luni River floodout zone, northwestern India. / Mukherjee, Jayesh; Tooth, Stephen; Duller, Geoff A. T. et al.
2025. 69 Poster session presented at British Society for Geomorphology Annual Conference 2025, Leeds, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
2025. 69 Poster session presented at British Society for Geomorphology Annual Conference 2025, Leeds, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
Rapid rewetting is rapidly degrading some of the world’s drylands. / Singh, Manudeo; Tooth, Stephen; Mukherjee, Jayesh et al.
2025. 30 Poster session presented at British Society for Geomorphology Annual Conference 2025, Leeds, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
2025. 30 Poster session presented at British Society for Geomorphology Annual Conference 2025, Leeds, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
Toward a relational biodiversity economics: Embedding plural values for sustainability transformation. / Kenter, Jasper (Corresponding Author); Carmenta, Rachel; Christie, Michael et al.
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 122, No. 40, e2314586122, 07.10.2025.
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 122, No. 40, e2314586122, 07.10.2025.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Agoriad. / Griffiths, Hywel.
In: Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1.2, 04.12.2024.
In: Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1.2, 04.12.2024.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
An interdisciplinary research agenda for climate change and cultural heritage. Forino, Giuseppe (Author); Lynda, Yorke (Author); del Pinto, Monia (Author) et al.. 2024. Royal Geographical Society.
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site