Aled Singleton

I am a social and cultural geographer and lecturer at Cardiff University. I am interested in long-term emotional and affective attachments to space and place. I specialise in public participation, using online spatial workshops, walking approaches and qualitative biographical methods. My PhD considered the long-term relationships with infrastructure investments made to industry, housing and shopping centres in the 1960s and 1970s. My current research focuses on energy transitions, where I am currently leading a public value engagement project on energy supply futures that links Wales to Pakistan.

At Swansea University I completed my PhD in 2021 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher and teaching. I have an ongoing position as Honorary Research Fellow in the Geography Department. Since joining Cardiff University in 2024 I have been exploring the socio-economic dimensions of generating energy from tidal reach in Wales, with partners including engineers and developers. Working directly for Welsh Government I have conducted interviews with key stakeholders to understand how different ownership and linked development/financing models might impact how far tidal range developments have positive impacts on the Welsh economy.

I am a member of the 2025 Welsh Crucible cohort, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Co-Chair and Treasurer of the RGS-IBG Participatory Geography Research Group. I am an HEA Fellow and teach across Human Geography, including climate emergency, sustainable development, globalisation, dissertation preparation, weeklong fieldtrips, and qualitative research methods.

I co-edited the first edition of Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory with a specific focus on Indigenous ontologies. I am experienced writer with a growing body of publications in social and cultural geography, publishing in journals including GeoHumanities, Geo: Geography and Environment, Visual Studies, Cities & Health, Soundings and have book chapters in three Routledge publications: researcher vulnerability, walking methods for lifecourse research, and teaching outdoors.