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 Chair of the Aberystwyth University Branch of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol; Member of the Department of International Politics Management Team; Director of Welsh Medium Studies, Department of International Politics; Member of Executive Committee and leader on the ‘Language, Culture and Identities’ Theme of the Centre for Welsh Politics and Society – WISERD @ Aberystwyth.

Teaching

Module Coordinator
Tutor
Coordinator

PhD Supervision
Devolved 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: • Education, language and identity ESRC Civil Society Research Centre: Devolution, Social and Economic Change and the Local and Regional Landscapes of Civil Society (WISERD). Work Package 2.3 Co-I with Prof Rhys Jones (PI) and Co-Is Prof Lindsay Paterson and Dr Fiona O’Hanlon, Edinburgh University. • 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. Start date: January 2017 for 5 years. • Language Revitalization and Socio-cultural Transformation AHRC networking grant (January 2017 for 2 years) with Dr Huw Lewis as PI.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)

  • Monday 12.30-1.30
  • Friday 10.30-11.30

Publications

Jones, R & Royles, E 2020, 'Reclaiming Authenticity: The Spaces and Scales of National Sincerity', Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. 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.
Lewis, H, Royles, E & McLeod, W 2019, Revitalise Project - Workshop Briefing Report 4: Language revitalisation, mobility and the transformation of family life.
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