Senior Lecturer
Contact Details
- Email: rhj@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0002-1231-7529
- Office:K5 Llandinam Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622647
- Research Portal Profile (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/persons/443255ea-41cb-4e4c-a9c1-476df719d2f0)
- Personal Pronouns: He / Him
Rhys is a social geographer interested in migration, multiculturalism, civic participation, and belonging. He is co-convenor of the WISERD research network Migration Research Wales, and co-director of the Centre for Welsh Politics and Society.
Chair, RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group
Culture, Heritage, & Community Research Theme Lead
Co-director, Centre for Welsh Politics and Society
Chair, DGES Examination Board
- AB1 Cefn gwlad a'r ddinas: prosesau o newid a gwrthdaro (DA10520)
- AB2 Lleoli Gwleidyddiaeth (DA23020)
- AB1 The city & the country: processes of conflict & changes (GS10220)
- AB2 Placing Politics (GS23020)
Module Coordinator
- AB2 Applied Environmental Management (GS31120)
- AB1 Dylunio Ymchwil a Sgiliau Gwaith Maes (DA25420)
- AB1 Geography Dissertation (GS34040)
- AB1 Geography Research Design and Fieldwork Skills (GS20020)
- AB2 Lleoli Gwleidyddiaeth (DA23020)
- AB2 Placing Politics (GS23020)
- AB1 Traethawd Estynedig: Daearyddiaeth, Gwyddor yr Amgylchedd, a Gwyddor Daear yr Amgylchedd (DA34040)
Lecturer
- AB2 Earth Surface Environments (GS10520)
- AB1 Fundamentals of Geochemistry (GS22720)
- AB1 Living in a Dangerous World (GS10020)
- AB1 Researching the World: data collection and analysis (GS13020)
- AB1 Work Placement (GSS0360)
Grader
- Monday 16:30-17:30
- Tuesday 09:30-10:30
Rhys' research interests are broadly concerned with migration, multiculturalism, civic participation, and belonging. Specifically, he is interested in lifestyle migration and regional inequalities, transnational belonging and non-beloning in minority nations (largely focussing on EU migration and Brexit in Wales), international migration and religious diversity in rural regions, and civic participation as place-making activities.
In: Space and Polity, 06.04.2026.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
In: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 16.10.2026.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
In: Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 127, 104352, 30.09.2026.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru | University of Wales Press, 2025.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2025. Paper presented at BSA Annual Conference 2025, Manchester, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review