Dr Hywel Griffiths

BSc MSc PhD (Cymru)

Dr Hywel Griffiths

Reader

Geography and Earth Sciences

Contact Details

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

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 flash in the pan’ or a more enduring contribution? A retrospective on Micha Klein’s (1976) ‘Hydrograph peakedness and basin area’, Earth Surface Processes, vol. 1: 27–30. / Mukherjee, Jayesh; Tooth, Stephen; Singh, Manudeo et al.
In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Vol. 51, No. 7, e70355, 10.07.2026.

Research output: Contribution to journalComment/Debatepeer-review

The potential of poetry for enchanting and communicating geomorphology. / Griffiths, Hywel M.; Tooth, Stephen; Gwynn, Elinor.
In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Vol. 51, No. 5, e70277, 31.05.2026.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticle

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.

Research output: Contribution to conferencePoster

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.

Research output: Contribution to conferencePoster

Sand, water, and change: documenting the dynamics of a dryland river floodout zone in the Indian Thar desert. / Mukherjee, Jayesh; Tooth, Stephen; Singh, Manudeo et al.
British Society for Geomorphology, 2025.

Research output: Book/ReportTechnical Report

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