Dr Hywel Griffiths BSc MSc PhD (Cymru)

Group Affiliation

• River Basin Dynamics and Hydrology

Research Interests

• Rates, pattens and controls of fluvial processes.
• The impact of anthropogenic activities on fluvial processes.
• The impact of Holocene environmental change on fluvial systems.
• The long term development of the fluvial landscape of Wales.
• Theoretical geomorphology, especially complexity and self organised criticality.
• Using historical documentary sources to infer geomorphological and climatic change.
• Hydropolitics and cultural geographies of rivers.

Current projects

• PI: Can we harness knowledge of extreme geomorphological events to promote sustainable tourism? (funded by the Joy Welch Trust)
• PI: Scaling bedrock erosional processes across space and time: from pothole dynamics to gorge development (BSG funded)
• PI: Remembering a hydrographic society: flooding, drought, adaptation and culture in the Welsh colony of Patagonia, Argentina (funded by the British Academy)
• Co-I: SusNet Wales (Sustainability Network Wales): A collaborative multidisciplinary platform for inspiration and transformation of the next generation (RCUK funded)

MPhil Supervision

• Marc Huband (2013)
• Janet Richardson (2013)

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