
Qualifications
- 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
Activities
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:
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 psychologis