Professor Manon Jones
Professor in Psychology / Director of Research
Links
- https://sites.google.com/view/the-reading-brain-lab/home?authuser=0
Lab web page: The Reading Brain lab (ReB) - http://www.rillresearch.org
Research with impact: Remote Instruction of Language and Literacy - http://www.dyslexia.bangor.ac.uk
Miles Dyslexia Centre - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manon-Jones-2
Researchgate profile
Contact info
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:
None
Overview
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.
Contact Info
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.
Contact Info
Competitive scholarship opportunities available:
None
Research outputs (40)
- Published
SUBTLEX-CY: A new word frequency database for Welsh
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Rational inattention: A new theory of neurodivergent information seeking
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Chinese Learners of English Are Conceptually Blind to Temporal Differences Conveyed by Tense: Conceptual Tense Blindness in Late Bilinguals
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Prof. activities and awards (7)
Bangor University Community Day - Psychology stall
Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
Citation in Curriculum for Wales Annual Report 2023
Activity: Other
Projects (5)
Welsh gov - full development and scale up of RILL
Project: Research