Membership

Members of the panel have been drawn from across Wales and the UK, representing a range of expertise and knowledge on the teaching and learning of literacy. 

The members of the literacy expert panel:

• Dr Angella Cooze: Programme Director: Post Graduate Certificate in Education, Swansea University
• Dr Cameron Downing: Lecturer in Psychology in Education, University of York
• Professor Usha Goswami: Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience and Director, Centre for Neuroscience in Education, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge
• Professor J. Carl Hughes: Professor of Educational and Behavioural Research and Executive Director, CIEREI Institute of Education Research, Bangor University
• Professor Manon Jones: Professor in Psychology and Director of Research, School of Human and Behavioural Sciences, Bangor University
• Dr James Mannion: Director, Rethinking Education
• Dr Sharon McMurray: Principal Lecturer, Head of SEN Literacy Unit, Stranmillis University College, Belfast
• Professor Dominic Wyse: Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education and Founding Director Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0 to 11), University College London