Dr Elin Royles

BSc Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth, MSc (Econ) Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth, PhD Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth

Dr Elin Royles

Senior Lecturer

Department of International Politics

Contact Details

Profile

Elin joined the department in 2003 and is a Senior Lecturer. Her research and teaching are associated with the areas of: Territorial Politics and Post-devolution UK politics; Sub-state diplomacy and Nation-building; Sub-state climate change & sustainable development policy; Civil society; Language planning and policy.

She is currently the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of International Politics; Member of the Department of International Politics Management Team; Member of Executive Committee and leader on the ‘Language, Culture and Identities’ Theme of the Centre for Welsh Politics and Society – WISERD @ Aberystwyth.

Teaching

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PhD Supervision
Territorial politics and sub-state governance

Welsh Politics and society

Language policy and planning

Research

Main areas of research: Territorial Politics and post-devolution UK politics; Sub-state diplomacy and nation-building; Sub-state climate change & sustainable development policy; Civil Society; Language planning and policy.

She is currently involved in the following research grants:  

• Autonomy Movements and Economic and Social justice Co-Investigator H2020 IMAJINE: Integrative Mechanism for Addressing Spatial Injustice and Territorial Inequalities in Europe, Lead Partner: Aberystwyth University. 

WP C3.1 - Shifting forms of governance and the grassroots politics of separatism, part of theme 3 Contentious Politics and Civic Gain of the ESRC funded WISERD Civil Society - Civic Satisfaction and Civil Repair project

.Her thesis that won the Political Studies Association's Walter Bagehot Prize for the best thesis in government and public administration in 2004-05 and between 2005 and 2014 she was co-editor of the Contemporary Wales journal.

Office Hours (Student Contact Times)

  • Tuesday 12.30-13.30
  • Friday 12.30-13.30

Publications

Lewis, H & Royles, E 2021, Towards a million speakers? Language policy post-devolution. in A Eurig & J Williams (eds), The Impact of Welsh Devolution . Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru | University of Wales Press.
Jones, R & Royles, E 2020, 'Reclaiming Authenticity: The Spaces and Scales of National Sincerity', Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 1091-1107. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420915577
Jones, R & Royles, E 2020, 'The state, civil society and the shadow state: Analysing three vectors of relationality', Geoforum, vol. 114, pp. 40-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.05.017
Royles, E & Lewis, H 2019, 'Language policy in multi-level systems: A historical institutionalist analysis', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 709-727. https://doi.org/10.1177/1369148119845341
Royles, E 2019, Revitalise Project - Workshop Briefing Report 3: Language revitalisation and economic transformation.
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