Dr Huw Lewis

BA Prifysgol Cymru MA Prifysgol Cymru PhD Prifysgol Aberystwyth

Dr Huw Lewis

Lecturer in International Politics

Department of International Politics

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Profile

Huw joined the Department of International Politics as a member of staff in September 2009. He previously studied at the department as an undergraduate and as a postgraduate. His doctoral research, which he completed in May 2009, focused on the normative dimension of efforts to revive minority languages. This work was supported by an ESRC 1+3 award. It also benefited from a period spent as a visiting scholar at Queens University, Ontario; an opportunity that arose following an invitation from Professor Will Kymlicka. Huw is a fluent Welsh and English speaker and teaches and supervises through the medium of both languages, both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Teaching

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PhD Supervision
Normative Political Theory
Multiculturalism
Language Politics and Policy
Welsh Politics

Research

Huw's research interests include: normative political theory; debates concerning multiculturalism and nationalism; language politics and Welsh politics. Currently he is attempting to develop on his doctoral research by preparing a series of publications that focus on the normative dimension of efforts to revive minority languages. In particular, he is seeking to establish what kind of revival measures can be considered acceptable from a liberal-democratic perspective. Among the publications that should result from such research work is a monograph, provisionally entitled Liberalism and Language Revival.

Publications

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
Jones, R & Lewis, DH 2019, New Geographies of Language: Language, Culture and Politics in Wales. Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities, Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-42611-6
Lewis, H, Royles, E & McLeod, W 2019, Revitalise Project - Workshop Briefing Report 4: Language revitalisation, mobility and the transformation of family life.
Jones, R & Lewis, D 2018, Introducing the Geographies of Language. in New Geographies of Language: Language, Culture and Politics in Wales. Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities, Springer Nature.
Lewis, D & Royles, E 2018, 'Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation: Evaluating the Language Policy Frameworks of Sub-state Governments in Wales and Scotland', Policy and Politics, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 503-529. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557317X14938075758958
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