Professor Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones

Professor Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones has worked in the field of European minority languages for three decades, focussing on media, the creative and cultural sectors, translation and language policy and practice.

A founder member of the Mercator Network, she has organised and participated in numerous conferences, research projects, study visits and written and contributed to reports, articles and books in the field.

At the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, she also directs the work of Wales Literature Exchange and works closely with Literature Across Frontiers and with Wales PEN Cymru.

In 2016, she was appointed Vice-Chair of the Independent Review of the Welsh Government’s Support for Publishing and Literature in Wales. In 2017, she was appointed member of the Council of Europe’s expert group on Media for the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

Between 2014 and 2018, she led the development of the first all-Wales postgraduate provision in Professional Translation Studies (2014-2018) delivered by Aberystwyth University and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David in collaboration with Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, Welsh Language Commissioner, Welsh Government, National Assembly for Wales (now “Senedd”), Welsh Local Government Association and Cymdeithas Cyfieithwyr Cymru.

She is multilingual and in addition to her native Welsh and English speaks Basque, Catalan, French, Galician and Spanish and has knowledge of Italian, Portuguese, German and Irish.

She is a peer reviewer of a range of publications in several languages, has served on research assessment panels in more than one country and has examined some 15 doctoral theses at a range of European Universities.

She has supervised 8 PhDs to successful completion and is currently supervising two fully funded doctorates:

Strategic Action for Internationalisation of the Children’s Publishing Sector in Wales. (Megan Farr) In partnership with the Books Council of Wales (KESS).

Exploring Digital Opportunities in Developing and Implementing a Sustainable International Strategy: National Eisteddfod of Wales (Nici Beech) in partnership with the Eisteddfod. (KESS).

Completed supervisions:

• Online Multi-media Content in Local and Hyper-Local Contexts in the Welsh language. Siôn Richards in partnership with Golwg360. (KESS)
• Welsh language media in the construction and perceptions of identity during middle childhood. Helen Davies (2nd supervisor)
• Multiplatform Audiovisual Narratives of Media Production Nia Dryhurst in partnership with Cwmni Da (KESS).
• Participatory Culture and the Digital Media Economy Rhodri ap Dyfrig in partnership with Boom (KESS).
• The significance of animé as a novel animation form Ywain Tomos.
• Negotiations of Identity in Minority Language Media Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed
• Linguistic Representation in Teen Genre Films 1990-2005 Lisa Richards
• History of the Welsh Films Board Kate Woodward (2nd Supervisor)

Previous roles include:

• Chair of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Multi-disciplinary Terminology Board (2013-2017)
• Director of the S4C Broadcasting Compliance Monitoring and Research Unit 1998-2010
• Research Assistant and Lecturer at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
• Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor of Media and Creative Industries at Aberystwyth University.
• Director of Welsh Language and Culture across six academic departments at the Institute of Arts and Humanities Aberystwyth University.

• Linguistic Diversity, Language Policy and Planning, Minority / Minoritised Languages
• Creative Sector, Media & Cultural Industries, Creative and Literary Translation, Publishing, Policies and Practice
• Intercultural Exchange, International Networks, Citizenship