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Professor Taeko Wydell
Emeritus Professor

Membership and affiliation

        MEMBERSHIPS OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

  • British Psychological Society (BPS): Chartered Psychologist & Associate Fellow
  • Experimental Psychology Society (EPS): Elected Full Member
  • British Neuropsychology Society (BNS): Elected Full Member
  • British Neuroscience Association (BNA): Local Representative/Full Member
  • Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR): Elected Voting Member
  • Japanese Cognitive Neuropsychology Society (JCNS): Executive Board Member
  • Japanese Dyslexia Research Association (JDRA): Executive Consultant
  • Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA): A Founder Member

     

    EDITORSHIP

    2014-2018: Current Developmental Disorders Reports (Springer, USA) – Section Editor

    2023-2026: Dyslexia – A member of the Editorial Board

    REF

  • 2014-REF: My Impact Case Study on having developed Japan’s first standardised literacy skills attainment test and screening test for dyslexia for the Japanese children aged 8 to 18 was awarded a 4-Star.

  • 20th January 2022 On-line event on Demonstrating Research Impact: Insights from the UK’s Research Excellence Framework organised by Research England, Universities UK International, & Japan Association of National Universities as an Invited Speaker (following on my 4-star 2014-REF Impact Case Study)

Media interests

MEDIA EXPOSURE

1996 Daily Telegraph (19/1/96), and Independent (18/1/96) – Newspaper Articles on my research (A case study of bilingual with monolingual dyslexia) based on an article published in New Scientist (1996)

Followed by interviews on radio with BBC-Greater London (18/1/96); Leicester (22/1/96); Greater Manchester (22/1/96); Cable T.V. “EBN European Business News” (20/1/96); BBC World Service・BBC (11/96) and Live-Interview CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation) Michael Enright Show (11/96).

6th & 13th October 2020 BBC World Service – “Dyslexia : Language and Childhood”. Toby Withers interviews dyslexic individuals including AS (Alex) as well as dyslexia researchers, i.e., Professors Maggie Snowling (University of Oxford); Bruce Pennington (Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Denver University, USA); Wai Ting Shiok (University of Hong Kong) and Taeko Wydell (Brunel University London). 

10th March 2023 Sophie Hardach, BBC Journalist, wrote an article, entitled “How dyslexia changes in other languages - Writing in English can be a challenge – even if it's your mother tongue” for BBC-Future based on her interviews with Alex (an English-Japanese bilingual with monolingual dyslexia in English) and myself.