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/
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=iqBpfv4AAAAJ
- Research Portal Profile
- 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
- GS11520 - How to Build a Planet
- DA11520 - Sut i Greu Planed
- DA25520 - Prosesau Rhewlifol ac Afonol
- GS25520 - Glacial and Fluvial Processes
Lecturer
- PGM4940 - Work Based Research in Professional Contexts
- PGM4940 - Work Based Research in Professional Contexts
- PGM4940 - Work Based Research in Professional Contexts
- GS34220 - Geography Joint Honours/Major Project
- GS34040 - Dissertation: Geography, Environmental Science, and Environmental Earth Science
- GS20020 - Research Design and Fieldwork Skills
- DA25420 - Dylunio Ymchwil a Sgiliau Gwaith Maes
- DA10320 - Ymchwilio'r Byd: Casglu a Dadansoddi Data
Coordinator
- GS25520 - Glacial and Fluvial Processes
- GS11520 - How to Build a Planet
- DA25520 - Prosesau Rhewlifol ac Afonol
- DA11520 - Sut i Greu Planed
Tutor
- GS13020 - Researching the World: data collection and analysis
- EAM4420 - Behaviour Change in a Changing Environment
- EAM4660 - Dissertation in Environmental Change Impacts and Adaptation
- DA34040 - Traethawd Estynedig: Daearyddiaeth, Gwyddor yr Amgylchedd, a Gwyddor Daear yr Amgylchedd
- DA31720 - Rheoli'r Amgylchedd Gymreig
- GGM2860 - MA Dissertation
Research
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
Research Groups
Publications
Mukherjee, J, Tooth, S, Duller, GAT & Griffiths, HM 2025, 'A thriving early-mid Holocene river? emerging geochronological evidence from the Luni River floodout zone, northwestern India', British Society for Geomorphology Annual Conference 2025, Leeds, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 16 Sept 2025 - 18 Sept 2025 pp. 69. 10.13140/RG.2.2.28289.52325
Kenter, J, Carmenta, R, Christie, M, Griffiths, H, Ihemezie, E, Martin, A, Gomez-Osorio, T, Pascal, U, Raymond, C, Remoundou, K & Waters, R 2025, 'Toward a relational biodiversity economics: Embedding plural values for sustainability transformation', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 122, no. 40, e2314586122. 10.1073/pnas.2314586122
Griffiths, H 2024, 'Agoriad', Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory, vol. 1, no. 1, 1.2. 10.18573/agoriad.27
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, Tooth, S & Kaless, G 2024, Exploring 'y paith': historical and contemporary perceptions of desert environments in Patagonia, Argentina. in C Osuna & A Tynan (eds), Storied Deserts: Reimagining Global Arid Lands. Taylor & Francis, London.
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