Hywel has been a teacher for over thirty years. Hywel is as at home in front of hundreds of Headteachers on the conference circuit as he is when working with EAL children on the carpets of their classrooms. Hywel contributes to the national conversation around education at school and university level. He is an experienced teacher in Special, Primary and Secondary settings, nationally and internationally. He is also a well- respected author and contributes regularly to a variety of publications.

Hywel contributed to BBC Bitesize acting as a content provider and script doctor during the Pandemic in 2020.

Major publications include his award-winning book ‘Oops! Getting Children to Learn Accidentally’, ‘Uncharted Territories’ (written with Dr Debra Kidd) and, most recently, ‘Botheredness’. He has also contributed fiction to a prison-based literacy reading programme developed by The Shannon Trust. Hywel is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Charted College of Teaching.

Hywel part owns a commercial cask ale brewery with some pals, but that’s another story.

He was recently described as ‘..a world leader in enthusiasm’.