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
- 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
- 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
Lecturer
- GS25210 - Catchment Systems
- GS34040 - Geography Dissertation
- GS34220 - Geography Joint Honours/Major Project
- GS21520 - Human Geography and Sociology 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
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, Tooth, S & Kaless, G 2023, Exploring 'y paith': historical and contemporary perceptions of desert environments in Patagonia, Argentina. in Storied Deserts.
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.
Griffiths, H 2021, 'Cofio llifogydd a sychder yn y Wladfa: Remembering flooding and drought in the Welsh colony of Patagonia', Paper presented at Ailddehnogli'r Wladfa, 20 Sept 2021.
Griffiths, H 2021, 'Engaging new audiences through virtual tours: evaluating the potential of the SeekBeak app', Paper presented at BSG Digital Engagement Knowledge Sharing Workshop, 04 Aug 2021. <https://www.geomorphology.org.uk/digital-resources-series>
More publications on the Research Portal