Dr. Judy Hutchings has worked in North Wales for the last 30 years. She is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with the North West Wales NHS Trust and works with children with significant behavioural difficulties in both specialist and primary care service providers and other educators concerned with children and their families. She is also Director of a research team based in the University of Wales, Bangor where she has worked since 1988 and undertakes research with referred children and their families and in early preventive work. She has held a number of grants and is the principal grant holder for the Health Foundation Grant researching the efficacy of the Webster-Stratton Incredible Years BASIC parenting programme for ‘high risk’ children in Sure Start services across North Wales. She has published extensively and established the Incredible Years Wales, Centre to research and train people to deliver the Webster-Stratton parent, child and teacher programmes.




Dr. Tracey Bywater came to Bangor in 1995 to study for a B.Sc. in Psychology. After graduating in 1999 she became a research assistant working with infants in the field of language acquisition. This prompted her to undertake a Ph.D. at Bangor investigating the link between infant speech perception and phonological short-term memory. Tracey has taught at the University of Wales, Bangor, in both the psychology and criminology departments. She retained her interest in children at risk of criminality and was appointed as research officer on the project evaluating the Incredible Years BASIC Parenting Programme in 2004. Since that time she has managed the project, including the successful negotiation of an extension grant from the Health Foundation and successful publication of the short-term findings. She is currently writing up further findings for publication and has just received her first grant as lead applicant piloting the IY Parent Programme with foster carers in Wales.




Karen Jones graduated in Psychology with a First Class Honours degree at the University of Wales, Bangor. She worked part-time at the Centre as a Research Assistant whilst also undertaking a M.Sc. in Psychological Research. Karen is the Centre’s main coder in the Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction Coding System (DPICS). In October 2004 Karen began her Ph.D. on the evaluation of the Incredible Years parenting programme, and its effectiveness with children diagnosed as ADHD, who receive the programme as a stand-alone intervention. She remains an integral part of the Centre, maintaining supervision and ensuring reliability within the DPICS team.








Pam Martin read Psychology and Health Psychology at Bangor. After graduating in 1999 she was employed as a Research Assistant, for the Professor of Developmental Psychology, researching how babies learn to talk and the role of bilingualism. She joined the Incredible Years team as a trainee DPICS coder in the spring of 2004, and enrolled for an M.Sc. in October 2004 which she completed last Autumn. For her M.Sc. she developed a classroom observation measure (the Teacher-Pupil Observation Tool: TeaPOT). She is currently studying for a Ph.D., which is jointly funded by the ESRC and Gwynedd Council Education Department, in which she will evaluate the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Programme in Gwynedd Primary Schools.







Catrin Eames graduated in Psychology at the University of Wales, Cardiff. She worked part-time as a Research Assistant for the Centre whilst also undertaking a M.Sc. in Psychological Research. She is a trained DPICS coder. Catrin is the Centre’s web page author. Catrin began her Ph.D. in October 2004, investigating the link between Implementation Fidelity of the Incredible Years parenting programme and child behaviour outcome. Her Ph.D. is jointly funded by the University, via Objective One funds and Incredible Years Wales.










Nia Griffith is an M.Sc. student with a 1+3 studentship funded by the University of Wales’ centre for developing teaching through the medium of Welsh. Nia graduated in Psychology from the University of Wales, Bangor in 2003. Nia spent the last three years working as part of the management team of the Snowdonia Design and Enterprise Centre, a community project aimed at providing affordable business premises and support for businesses operating in rural areas.
Nia's M.Sc. project will be replicating a study looking at the validity of observational techniques and their validity. Following the M.Sc, Nia will join the team researching the Incredible Years Programme. The research will be centred around the new Incredible Years infant programme.







Nikki Davies is a third year Psychology student at Bangor University. She works as a part time administrative assistant at the centre. She has been an invaluable help to Dilys in preparing for the newsletter and the conference.














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 annual Incredible Years Wales conference. The Centre's annual Newsletter is another of Dilys' tasks.


Carly Martin is a first year Psychology student at Bangor University. She joined the team in March 2007 and works as a part time administrative assistant at the centre.


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, University of Wales, Bangor.