Overview
Dr Nia Williams is a lecturer and researcher at the Collaborative Institute for Education Research, Evidence and Impact (CIEREI), School of Education and Human Development, 麻豆网.听After the completion of her PhD which investigated how children鈥檚 Welsh television programmes can support Welsh acquisition among L2 English children in schools and at home, 听Dr Williams began to expand her research interests to explore various aspects of child development. She worked collaboratively with practitioners in various settings on a range of projects relating to child psychology, child development, children's education, language development and bilingualism. Such projects include working with GL Assessment evaluating the Baseline Assessment Tool; the new standardised online software designed to measure mathematical, language and communication skills as well as phonological awareness in 4-5 year old children. She was the lead researcher for the Premier League Reading Stars Cymru reading programme and for The Family Learning Signature, a family-based programme helping education authorities to improve attainment, attendance and behaviour, particularly with hard to reach families and disengaged learners. In addition, she has been involved in investigating Welsh-English educational provision in North Wales, exploring the implications for language policies and researching various language development programmes provided by Welsh councils supporting 3-16 year olds. She worked with Public Health Wales promoting parent-child interaction in the first 1000 days. She is also a named collaborator for the National Centre for Population, Health and Wellbeing Research. Nia was one of the lead psychologist in the award winning 鈥�Hen Blant Bach鈥� and 鈥�The Toddlers Who Took on Dementia鈥� intergenerational research projects and television programmes for Darlun TV, S4C, Sony Pictures and BBC Wales. These projects gained international recognition and won Best Documentary at the Celtic Media Film Festival and won the silver medal at the New York TV & Film Awards. She听continues to make regular contributions to TV and radio programmes as an expert informant.
Today, her main interest lies in child forensic psychology and psychopathy. What makes a serial killer? What drives children to kill? What鈥檚 the psychology behind torturing children? These are just some topics that she discusses in her lectures. As you can see, Nia thoroughly enjoys the dark side of psychology!
Additional Contact Information
Dr Nia Williams
107 Trefenai
Normal Site
麻豆网
E-mail: nia.williams@bangor.ac.uk
Phone: (01248) 383026
Teaching and Supervision
Nia is a lecturer at the School of Education and Human Development. Over the years Nia has contributed to several undergraduate and postgraduate modules on various courses. She has written several new modules that have proved popular with students such as 鈥楳ental Health in Children and Adolescents鈥� and 鈥楩orensic psychology鈥� and ensures the provision for both Welsh and English speakers. Nia is passionate about students experience and development especially in terms of presentation skills and is currently preparing the BOPS module that will be offered to students on the course for the first time this year. Additionally, she鈥檚 actively involved in the supervision of research students as well as pastoral care work.
Roles and Responsibilities
Head of Year Two: Childhood and Youth Studies Course responsible for the 2nd year鈥� students studying on the course.
Deputy Chair School of Education Ethics Committee
Member of the COHABS and School of Education Marketing committees
School of Education Website Editor: Responsible for updating the website
School of Education and Human Development International Exchange Officer: Responsible for students and staff who participate in exchange programmes to study abroad.
External reviewer for Health and Care Research Wales Health Research Fellowship Awards.
Modules
Year 1: BOPS (麻豆网 Oral Presentation Skills)
Year 2: Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents
Year 2: Seicopatholeg Ymhlith Plant a鈥檙 Ifanc
Year 3: Psychology of Childhood and Crime听
Year 3: Seicoleg Plentyndod a Throseddu
Year 2 & 3 Dissertation Supervisor
Research Supervision
Supervision of Postgraduate EdD & PhD projects in Education at 麻豆网.
Supervision of听Postgraduate MRes Dissertations听in听贰诲耻肠补迟颈辞苍听at 麻豆网.
Supervision of听Postgraduate MA Dissertations听in听贰诲耻肠补迟颈辞苍听at 麻豆网.
Supervision of听Undergraduate BA Dissertations听颈苍听Childhood & Young Studies at 麻豆网.
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Research Interests
Nia has a range of interest relating to child development with child forensic psychology and psychopathy at the forefront. She has a particular interest in what causes children to develop criminal behaviour, what factors are associated within a child鈥檚 life that leads them to commit terrible crimes in the future or even, what are the implications of having a parent behind bars on children鈥檚 development?听 Alongside these, she is passionate about children鈥檚 mental health and wellbeing and is interested in various projects that help support or prevent children from developing mental health problems. 听听听听听
Publications
2024
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Underwood, C., Thomas, E., Smith, A.-M., Williams, N., Kyffin, F. & Young, N., 31 Jul 2024, In: Wales Journal of Education. 26, 1, 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
2022
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Davies, M., Roushan, G., Williams, N. & Clayton, S., 7 Jun 2022, p. 58-58.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper 鈥� peer-review
2021
- Published
Davies, M., Clayton, S., Roushan, G. & Williams, N., 7 Jul 2021, p. x.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper 鈥� peer-review
2019
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Woods, R., Hamer, L., Jones, C. & Williams, N., Jan 2019, In: FPOP Bulletin. 145, p. 33-37
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
2017
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Williams, N. & Thomas, E., Jul 2017, In: Applied Psycholinguistics. 38, 4, p. 855-880
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
Activities
2020
3 Mar 2020
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)20 Feb 2020
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
2019
16 Dec 2019
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)29 Nov 2019
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)26 Nov 2019
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)31 Oct 2019
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)19 Sep 2019
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)18 Sep 2019
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)2 Aug 2019
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)2 Aug 2019
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)29 Jul 2019
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Wellbeing & Resilience Workshop
2 Jul 2019
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)13 Jun 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)22 May 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)16 May 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)13 May 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Topic: Children & Screen Time
25 Apr 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Memory Blanks after Trauma
25 Apr 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Connecting Generations -Celebrating and Learning
11 Apr 2019
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)Topic: Nice People!
3 Apr 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Topic: Suicide and Mental Health
19 Mar 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Topic: Adrenalin
26 Feb 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Topic: Socially Awkward
30 Jan 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Contributing psychologist to the TV programme: Help! We're Having a Baby
10 Jan 2019
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Contributing psychologist to the TV programme: Help! We're Having a Baby
9 Jan 2019
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Psychopathy
8 Jan 2019
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Contributing Psychologist to the TV Programme: Help! We're Having a Baby. Episode 2
8 Jan 2019
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Contributing psychologist on the BBC Wales Programme: Help! We're having a baby
7 Jan 2019
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2018
Our Social Experiment
23 Dec 2018
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Dyslexia and Achievement
26 Nov 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Child Pornography
22 Nov 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Stress
8 Nov 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Why do Serial Killers Kill?
16 Oct 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Participant)The Real You is a Myth
21 Sep 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Enrichlaunch
13 Sep 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)12 Sep 2018
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Children and memories
27 Jul 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Why we smile?
27 Jun 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)The association between smells and memories
23 May 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)TV Interview based on our television programme: The Toddlers Who Took on Dementia
23 May 2018
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Our Inter-generational Social Experiment
23 May 2018
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Night Owls and Psychopaths: The Dark Triad of Personality
15 May 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Participant)12 Apr 2018
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)11 Apr 2018
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Topic: Developing Habits
1 Feb 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Dementia and Children
18 Jan 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Children & Arts, poems & stories
15 Jan 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)2018
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2018
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2017
Our Inter-generational social experiment
24 Dec 2017
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Our Inter-generational Social Experiment
17 Dec 2017
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16 Dec 2017
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16 Dec 2017
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14 Dec 2017
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Our Inter-generational Social experiment- Episode 1
10 Dec 2017
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9 Dec 2017
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The Psychology of the Colour Red
5 Dec 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Invited to talk about the Hen Blant Bach Research and TV experiment
2 Dec 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Radio Interview- Topic- Stress
22 Nov 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Radio Interview- Psychology of Horror Films
2 Sep 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)24 Aug 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)Aug 2017 鈥� Jan 2018
Activity: Consultancy (Consultant)30 Jul 2017
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16 Jun 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)10 Mar 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)6 Feb 2017
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BBC Radio interview - The importance of having a purpose in life
16 Jan 2017
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16 Jan 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
2016
Television Programme S4C: Hen Blant Bach Social Experiment
Where children and older people shared their day care enviroment.
28 Dec 2016
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)A televisin programme based on our Intergenerational Experiment
27 Dec 2016
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)20 Dec 2016
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17 Dec 2016
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10 Dec 2016
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9 Dec 2016
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2015
Erasmus + Supporting Social and Emotional Competences of Pre-school children from Disadvantaged or Culturally Different Environments.
2015 鈫�
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)Erasmus + 麻豆网, Prague, Slovakia: Supporting Social and Emotional Competences of Pre-school children from Disadvantaged or Culturally Different Environments.
2015 鈫�
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)Erasmus +: Supporting Social and Emotional Competences of Pre-school children from Disadvantaged or Culturally Different Environments.
2015
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)
2014
2014
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)2014 鈫�
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
2013
Body Dysphoria
19 May 2013
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
2012
May 2012 鈫�
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Mar 2012 鈫�
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
Projects
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01/07/2021 鈥� 31/03/2024 (Finished)