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• Professional: Assessment Practising Certificate (APC)
  2021
• Associate Membership of the British Dyslexia Association (AMBDA)
  2021
• MPhil: Welsh Second Language Teaching Methods
  Aberystwyth University, 1997
• BEd: Primary Education (7-11)
  Trinity College Carmarthen, 1986–1990

2023

• 50 minute Welsh seminar to delegates on the RILL project.

  The National Education Show is the leading education event in Wales providing opportunities and new ways to improve and raise standards, enhance learning experiences and support learners.

  6 Oct 2023

  Links:

  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

• RILL Blog on Geran Hughes' experience as RILL Research Officer and Project Manager

  12 Jul 2023

  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

• 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)

• MABEL is a highly innovative, multi-lingual battery for assessing early literacy and literacy-related skills in both monolingual, bilingual and second language learners. It was created by an international team of researchers as one output of a European Initial Training Network project. Validated by research, MABEL is a web-based resource intended for use by educational psychologists, speech and language therapists, and special educational needs teachers. MABEL exemplifies how the results of a psycho-educational research project can serve to ameliorate the work of language and literacy specialists, and bring educational benefits to learners in numerous countries.

  17 May 2023

  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Contributor)

• MABEL is a highly innovative, multi-lingual battery for assessing early literacy and literacy-related skills in both monolingual, bilingual and second language learners. It was created by an international team of researchers as one output of a European Initial Training Network project. Validated by research, MABEL is a web-based resource intended for use by educational psychologists, speech and language therapists, and special educational needs teachers. MABEL exemplifies how the results of a psycho-educational research project can serve to ameliorate the work of language and literacy specialists, and bring educational benefits to learners in numerous countries.

  17 May 2023

  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Contributor)

• The event was be held on Saturday May 13, 2023 at the Archimedes Centre, Cambrian House, Wrexham. It was held through the medium of English. The children participated in a circus skills and arts activity whilst using literacy and language. The parents/guardians attended a workshop on how to support their child with Literacy, Language and Technology. The morning session started at 10am and finished at 12noon.

  Morning session - 2 children/2 adults

  Total attendance - 2 children/2adults

  13 May 2023

  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Contributor)

• Datblygwych eich gwybodaeth am anawsterau llythrennedd a’r defnydd o dechnoleg i gefnogi dysgwyr.

  Develop your knowledge of literacy difficulties and using technology to support learners.

  3 May 2023

  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Contributor)

• Develop your knowledge of literacy difficulties and using technology to support learners.

  3 May 2023

  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Contributor)

• Reading is central to modern life, yet some people will struggle to read for various reasons. In this lecture the focus was on three neurodiverse groups, and how reading is impacted in each group, and how best to support neurodiverse learners with reading.

  • Overview of the main theories of reading development.

  • Outlined the primary features of: dyslexia, ADHD, & autism.

  • Description on how literacy is impacted in each of these groups.

  • Named 1-2 ways in which we can support reading for each of these groups.

  19 Apr 2023

  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Contributor)

2022

• 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 Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ Innovation and Impact Award (Research Wales Innovation Funding). Value = £44,379

  4 May 2022 – 30 Apr 2023

  Activity: Other (Contributor)