Dr. Elinor Gwynn

Visuo-textual scrapwork exploring ecolinguistics relationships along the Welsh coast © Elinor Gwynn

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Dr Elinor Gwynn has a background in ecology and environmental law, and years of

experience of working in these fields for organisations such as National Parks, the

National Trust, the Heritage Fund and Natural Resources Wales.

She is also a writer and poet, and has a longstanding interest in the entanglements

between language and landscape, and the ways in which people’s everyday

languaging practices help shape their place-based identities and values. Her

research activity at Aberystwyth University revolves around this topic and its

relevance for contemporary environmental policy.

Her creative activity, as a writer and poet, has recently involved a number of

collaborations with visual artists and craftspeople, including Dylunio dan fy

nhraed/Designs under my feet with the silversmith Yusuke Yamamoto, Pwytho

Llais/Stitching a Voice with textile artist Bethan M. Hughes, Merched ar Lestri with

ceramic artist Lowri Davies and Hadau Newid/Seeds of Change with the ceramicist

and archaeologist Erin Lloyd. A recent commission from Natural Resources Wales to

explore Iaith y Mawn/The Language of Peat, in connection with a peatland recovery

programme in mid-Wales, provided an ideal opportunity to combine her interests in

ecology, language, art and archival investigation.

Her writing work, ranging from more factual environmental articles through to

creative non-fiction and poetry, has been recognised by the National Eisteddfod of

Wales (one of Europe’s main cultural events, held annually in different parts of

Wales). In 2025 she was selected by Literature Wales to be a participant in their

innovative LLIF/FLOW international residency for environmental writers.

Examples of visuo-textual scrapworks produced as part of an exploration of ecolinguistics relationships along the Welsh coast © Elinor Gwynn.