Professor Mark Mon-Williams (MMW) is Chair in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Leeds, Professor of Psychology at Bradford Institute of Health Research, Professor of Vision Science at The Norwegian Centre for Vision, and a Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute (the UK’s National data analytics and AI Centre).
He is Deputy Chair of the Department for Education’s Science Advisory Council and Chair of the Ministry of Justice’s ‘preventative analytics’ academic taskforce.
MMW is Director of the Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research, Impact Director for Medicine and Health at Leeds, Executive Member of the Born in Bradford (BiB) longitudinal birth cohort programme, Child Health Outcome Research At Leeds (CHORAL), and the N8’s Child of The North partnership.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and leads the BiB Centre of Applied Education Research and NHS Yorkshire Applied Research Collaboration ‘Data Analytics, AI and Visualisation’ group.
His research is funded by UKRI councils including the ESRC (e.g., Vulnerabilities and Policing Futures centre). He led the ‘Healthy Learning’ theme within the UK’s ‘ActEarly’ Prevention Research Programme and leads a team investigating the interactions between environmental and genetic risk factors for physical and mental health multimorbidity within the Medical Research Council LINC programme.
MMW is a Founder Member of the Priestley Academy Trust (a multiple academy trust that includes the first school known to provide free meals to children and measure the impact on children’s health).
