J. Carl Hughes
Dr. Carl Hughes, BCBA-D, is senior lecturer and consultant behavior analyst at the School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales. He is director of the MSc in applied behavior analysis and deputy director of the Wales Centre for Behaviour Change. He studied for his BSc in psychology in 1993 and obtained his Ph.D. in behavior analysis and verbal behavior in 2000, following which he took a teaching fellowship at the School of Psychology teaching behavior analysis to psychology students. In 2003, he and colleagues started the first BCBA accredited MSc in applied behavior analysis program in Europe. The program currently has more than 100 master’s degree students enrolled. In 1998, Dr. Hughes took over the organization of the Experimental Analysis of Behaviour Group, UK and Europe (EABG), the longest standing organization devoted to behavior analysis in Europe. He is a founder and an active member of the European Association of Behaviour Analysis (established 2001), an organization that aims to promote the dissemination and training in behavior analysis across Europe. Dr. Hughes has 29 peer-reviewed publications in several journals including the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (JEAB), European Journal of Behavior Analysis (EJOBA), the American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Behavior Modification, and the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Dr. Hughes is an elected adviser for the Cambridge Centre for Behavioral Studies, an international organization devoted to the dissemination and promotion of the uses of behavioral psychology to the improvement of people’s lives. Dr. Hughes has a number of research interests, including effective teaching methods, behavioral measurement, early behavioral intervention programs, reading instruction, and verbal behavior.
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