Professor Judy Hutchings has worked in North Wales since 1973, for many years as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, working with children with significant behavioural difficulties. Since her retirement from the NHS in 2010 she retains an honorary NHS contract. She is Director of the Centre for Evidence Based Early Intervention (CEBEI) research team at Bangor University where she has worked part-time since 1988. She undertakes research with referred children and their families and early preventive work with parents, children and teachers.   She has held grants totaling over £1.5 million, has published extensively and, since 2006, has worked with the Welsh Assembly Government providing training and consultation to services across Wales.

She has provided evidence on effective early intervention to government departments in England and Wales and been an expert witness to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in their determination on conduct disorder. She has lectured and taught internationally including in Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Australia, Poland and Portugal.

In 2004 she was Welsh Woman Educator of the year and in 2010 received the Institute for Welsh Affairs Inspire Wales Educator Award. The Centre for Evidence Based Early Intervention (CEBEI) was launched by the then Deputy Minister for Children, Huw Lewis of the Welsh Assembly Government at our 2011 conference building on the earlier work of the Incredible Years Wales Centre.

Eleanor Lane is the Part-time Research Officer, employed by Bangor Universuity, to lead the research in the Lottery funded project to improve the social and emotional wellbeing of children attending schools in Gwynedd and Powys. She graduated from Bangor University in 1998 with a degree in Psychology. Since graduating she has been involved in several research projects evaluating interventions for children with conduct problems and ways of supporting parents.

Nia Griffith studied Psychology at Bangor University and graduated in 2003. Following her graduation she spent three years working for a community project, promoting small-medium sized enterprises. In September 2006, Nia returned to the University to follow the MSc course in Psychological Research. Following which she began work on her PhD focusing on an RCT evaluation of the new Incredible Years Toddler Parenting programme throughout Wales. Nia’s PhD was funded by the Welsh Teaching Development Centre, and as a result, for the last three years she has provided teaching support through the medium of Welsh for the School of Psychology at Bangor University. Nia is now a full-time teaching associate in the School of Psychology, and will have submitted her PhD by December 2011.

Kirstie Cooper graduated in Psychology at the University of Liverpool in 2008 and then returned home to Wales to study an MSc in Foundations of Clinical Psychology at Bangor University.  In 2009, Kirstie joined the Incredible Years team as a Research Assistant and was awarded a 125th anniversary bursary to study a Ph.D. at Bangor University, part funded by Incredible Years Cymru charity. The aim of her PhD is to evaluate the new four-session Incredible Years School Readiness Parenting programme, aimed at enhancing children’s school readiness. She is now in the second year of her Ph.D. and is currently collecting and analysing data.

Catrin Hedd Jones completed her first degree at Bangor University and a Masters in Edinburgh University before working within further education and the Welsh Assembly Government. She completed her post-graduate conversion diploma in Psychology with the Open University in 2009 before starting her PhD at Bangor. Catrin is evaluating the Incredible Years Infant Programme with 36 intervention and 26 control families throughout North and Mid Wales. 12 month follow up visit will be completed in February 2012. The PhD is funded by the European Knowledge transfer fund and the Children’s Early Intervention Trust (formrly Incredible Years Cymru).

Margiad Elen Williams read Psychology at Cardiff University and graduated in 2009. In October 2009, she began work on an MRes (Masters in Research) at Bangor University comparing two measures of child developmental abilities. This project was completed in September 2010 and she is now working as a Research Project Support Officer on the Lottery project at the Centre for Evidence Based Early Intervention (CEBEI.

Nicole Gridley read psychology at Bangor University, graduating in 2007 and has recently completed her Masters degree in the Foundations of Clinical Psychology also at Bangor. She was awarded a 12-week GoWales placement in 2009 to assist in the pilot study of the evaluation of the Dina School Programme. Following this she was given an extended contract to assist in the data collection of the evaluation of the Toddler Programme with Nia Griffith. Nicole has recently been awarded a three-year part-funded PhD with the School of Psychology and the Children’s Early Intervention Trust (formrly Incredible Years Cymru). to develop an observational tool that will assess emerging language in Toddlers aged 1-3 years old. Nicole intends, following completion of her PhD, to continue working in the area of child development.

Laura Parry graduated from Bangor University in 2009 with a degree in Psychology. She returned to Bangor to complete a Master's degree in Applied Behaviour Analysis. In the summer of 2010, she worked at the Centre on a GoWales placement assisting on the lottery project. She is currently in the first year of her PhD, which runs alongside the Lottery funded grant. The basis of her PhD project involves the development of an observational tool to assess peer interactions in schools delivering three Incredible Years programmes to promote social and emotional competence; Small Group Therapeutic Dina Programme, Classroom Dina, and the Teacher Classroom Management programme. The PhD is part funded by the School of Psychology and the Children’s Early Intervention Trust (formrly Incredible Years Cymru). 

Ceri Evans completed her degree in Psychology with Child and Language Development at Bangor University in 2010. As part of her undergraduate research project she examined the effect of a Welsh phonics based direct instruction programme on children's reading ability. She is currently working as a project research support officer at the Centre for Evidence Based Early Intervention (CEBEI) for the Lottery project evaluating the Incredible Years Small Group Dina Programme in Gwynedd. She has recently completed her first year of a masters degree in applied behaviour analysis.

Nia Williams was seconded to a post as a part-time Flying Start Liaison teacher in 2007 after eighteen years of classroom teaching with 4 – 8 year olds.  Her work includes supporting Rhiain Gwyn in introducing “Cwricwlwm Caleb” into child-care settings based on IY methods and principles. She also helps with refresher courses following these training sessions.

In September 2010 she started a two-year secondment for two days a week to the IY research team. Her work involves supporting teachers and school staff, that are taking part in the Lottery funded IY Small Group Therapeutic Dina School programme research project. For the remainder of the week she continues as the Flying Start Liaison Teacher.

Dilys Williams is the Centre's Administrator and has worked for the Centre since March 2001. Her responsibilities include the creating and maintaining of all administrative files pertaining to the Centre; the organising of training courses, and the organising of the two annual conferences. The Centre's annual Newsletter is another of Dilys' tasks.

Kath Chitty joined the Centre in February 2006 and is providing part-time clerical support to the team in general and Dilys in particular, covering many aspects of the work of the Centre. Prior to retirement from full-time employment in August 2005, Kath worked for fourteen years in the busy administrative team in the School of Psychology, Bangor University.

Gwen Owen has come to the Children’s Early Intervention Trust (formrly Incredible Years Cymru) from a building society background and will work on the Lottery project for two days a week as the Administrator, and as the Centre's Information Officer for one day a week.Gwen has been in the post since April 2010 and, amongst other tasks, maintains the school contact database, and has received training in bookkeeping to enable her to handle the finances.

Stephanie Watts completed her first degree in Psychology at the University of Bath. As part of her undergraduate degree Stephanie worked as a Research Assistant at a Clinical Research Unit in New Zealand. In September 2011 she joined the Centre for Evidenced Based Early Intervention (CBEBI) as a part-time Project Research Support Officer. She is part of the Lottery Funded project evaluating the Incredible Years Therapeutic small group Dinosaur Curriculum in Gwynedd. Stephanie has also begun a part-time MSc in Foundations of Clinical Psychology at Bangor University.

Karen Jones graduated with a BSc in Psychology with the Open University in 2010. She has worked for several years for Birmingham City Council with vulnerable children and young people, most recently as a Children's Rights Advocate and Participation Officer. She is working as a research support officer for the Lottery funded project evaluating the Incredible years Small Group Dina programme. She is also studying for a MSc in Foundations of Clinical Psychology at Bangor University.