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Aled Gruffydd Jones (born 1955) is Sir John Williams Professor of Welsh History and Senior Pro Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University. In 2013 he was appointed Chief Executive and Librarian of the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth,〔('New National Librarian' - Newsletter of the University of Aberystwyth 25 February 2013 )〕〔(NLW Board Minutes, 27 September 2013 ) at National Library of Wales, 27 September 2013〕 of which he had been Vice-President since May 2012.〔(News archive of the University of Aberystwyth ), 13 April 2012〕 He retired from the post in August 2015.〔(Library chief executive to step down from position ). ''Cambrian News'', 22 July 2015. Accessed 22 October 2015〕 ==Biography== Jones was educated at Ysgol Ardudwy, Harlech, Wales, and the University of York, where he met and later married political sociologist and writer Yasmin Ali (b. 1957). He holds a doctorate from the University of Warwick (1982). In 1979 he was appointed by Professor Sir Rees Davies to a tutorship in Modern History at Aberystwyth University and, in 1994, became the first Head of the newly merged Department of History and Welsh History. In 1987, Jones was a co-founder and chair of the Welsh film and video arts collective, ''Creu Cof'', and in 1989 was one of the organisers of the first Welsh International Film Festival at Aberystwyth (Identities / ''Hunaniaethau''). He has contributed extensively to Welsh and English-language print journalism, TV and radio broadcasting He was joint editor of the Welsh social history journal ''Llafur'' from 1986 to 1992, and Literary Director (Modern) of the Royal Historical Society, and editor of ''Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'', from 2000 to 2004. In 2003 he succeeded Professor Kenneth O. Morgan as editor (modern) of the ''Welsh History Review''. From 2005 to 2007 he advised the British Library on its newspaper digitization project, and has been a member of the History panel of both the Research Assessment Exercise (2008) and the Research Excellence Framework (2014). In 2009 He was appointed a Trustee of the National Library of Wales and, in 2010, served as the Higher Education representative on the Deputy Minister’s Expert Panel on Research and Development, Welsh Assembly Government. He is a Director of the ''Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol'' (the National College for Welsh Medium Learning in Higher Education) (2011). He spoke at the Hay Festival, 2011. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, the Royal Historical Society, and the Royal Asiatic Society.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aled Gruffydd Jones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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