Professor Manon Jones

Professor in Psychology / Director of Research

manon.jones@bangor.ac.uk

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Professor Manon Jones

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Manon's research and activities focus on reading and language, including dyslexia and bilingualism. She is the director of the Miles Dyslexia Centre, which is a centre of research excellence and provides an assessment and teaching service to the public as well as CPD for practitioners (www.dyslexia.bangor.ac.uk). She is also the Principle Investigator of the RILL project (www.rillresearch.org), which is a literacy with language programme for primary aged children. The programme is available in English and in Welsh and is currently being trialled across the whole of Wales. We are funded by UKRI, the Nuffield Foundation and the Welsh Government.

Self-funded (including agency-funded projects:

Manon welcomes informal enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in projects related to the cognitive and neurocognitive underpinnings of reading, dyslexia, language production and bilingualism. Please submit a draft research proposal (1-2 pages) to the above email address.

Competitive scholarship opportunities available:

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2015

  • PublishedLanguage and Culture modulate online Semantic Processing
    Ellis, C. A., Kuipers, J. R., Thierry, G., Lovett, V., Turnbull, O. H. & Jones, M. W., Oct 2015, In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 10, 10, p. 1392-1396
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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2025

2023

  • Bangor University Community Day - Psychology stall

    Bangor University Community Day was an event that welcomed the local community to explore the University and learn about its significant contributions to the social, economic, environmental, and cultural life of North Wales and beyond. The event showcased a range of activities. Our department of Psychology participated with a stall, offering various engaging activities for attendees, highlighting some of the department's work.

    14 Oct 2023

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)
  • Citation in Curriculum for Wales Annual Report 2023

    The Research on the Instruction of Literacy with Language was directly cited in the 2023 Curriculum for Wales annual report on page 32, as a tool supporting cross-curricular skills: "the Research on the Instruction of Literacy with Language project is focusing on a bespoke Welsh-language programme which builds Welsh vocabulary and literacy skills"

    28 Jun 2023

    Activity: Other (Contributor)

2022

  • BU-IIA Funded Project: Accelerating the impact of the Remote Instruction of Language and Literacy (RILL) programme via “the RILL community hub”: A Welsh-focused UK hub to co-ordinate and strengthen RILL implementation in Wales and England.

    Our mission is to ensure that children can continue to receive the best possible literacy tuition during school closures, and to rapidly regain and improve literacy skills now that schools have reopened. RILL has already received significant funding from the ESRC and Welsh Government, and RILL is being used in 55 North Wales schools. We are now on the cusp of two large scale randomised control trial evaluations (Sept 2022 – April 2024) funded by the Welsh Government (RILL-Cymraeg; Welsh medium) and the Nuffield Foundation (RILL-English; English medium). The next step (from 2024 onwards) is to scale it up into a national resource for use in all primary schools, across the UK, with help from the Education Endowment Fund (EEF).

    Funding awarded through the Bangor University Innovation and Impact Award (Research Wales Innovation Funding). Value = £44,379

    4 May 2022 – 30 Apr 2023

    Activity: Other (Contributor)
  • BU-IIA Funded Project: Towards a comprehensive BU service for neurocognitive developmental disorders: Developing a screener for social-behavioural difficulties as a route to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) assessment

    We seek to (1) develop a bilingual screening tool to quickly and accurately identify children with complex needs who are referred to the Miles Dyslexia Centre, allowing them to be immediately referred to an appropriate practitioner for a full assessment; (2) scope the current situation and measure waiting times for local children with social difficulties with a level of precision, taking a look at the impact of the pandemic on both waiting times and how assessments are carried out (e.g., remote assessment, bilingual assessment); (3) build and coordinate a group of researchers, educational practitioners, and clinical practitioners with the aim of moving towards an integrated assessment and care system for children with learning difficulties and ASD. Including clinical practitioners is essential, since a complete assessment would need to be a team effort between community, educational, and clinical (NHS) services. Our longer-term aim is to establish a BU Neurodevelopmental Centre that would not only push forward cutting edge translational neurodevelopmental research, but would also service the needs of children locally and nationally (via remote assessment and intervention) and which we hope will serve as a blueprint for excellence in provision within both “remote” rural areas and bilingual contexts.

    Funding awarded through the Bangor University Innovation and Impact Award (Research Wales Innovation Funding). Value = £46,582

    4 May 2022 – 30 Apr 2023

    Activity: Other (Contributor)

2021

2017

  • Scientific Studies of Reading (Journal)

    Gangl, M., Moll, K., Jones, M. W., Banfi, C., Schulte-Körne, G., & Landerl, K. (2017). Lexical reading in dysfluent readers of German. Scientific Studies of Reading, 1-17.

    22 May 2017

    Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member)

2010

  • ESRC Peer Review College

    Grant reviewer

    1 Sep 2010 – 1 Sep 2030

    Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Member)