Professor Mark Mon-Williams (MMW) is Chair in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Leeds, Professor of Psychology at the Bradford Institute of Health Research, Professor of Vision Science at The Norwegian Centre for Vision, and a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute (the UK’s National data analytics and AI Centre).

MMW is the University Academic Director for the Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research, honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, leads the NHS Applied Research Collaboration Yorkshire ‘Data Analytics, AI and Visualisation’ group, and is an executive member of the Born in Bradford project (a longitudinal birth cohort following the lifelong development of 13,500+ children) and the N8’s Child of The North partnership.

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. He is West Yorkshire academic lead for the Yorkshire and Humber Secure Data Environment.

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), and sits on the Bradford Priority Education Investment Area partnership board. He has several advisory roles including being a Play Commissioner and Deputy Chair of the Department for Education’s Science Advisory Council supporting the government’s Opportunity Mission.