Literacy Expert Panel

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.
• Elizabeth Nonweiler: Chair, Reading Reform Foundation UK.
• Professor Dominic Wyse: Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education and Founding Director Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0 to 11), University College London.