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Marketa Caravolas is an Associate Professor in Psychology at Bangor University, Wales, UK. She earned her PhD in Psychology from McGill University (1996) after initial training as a teacher and clinician in Montreal, focusing on children with learning disorders. Since 1997, she has led academic and research efforts at Bangor, directing the Miles Dyslexia Centre (2008–2014). Her work spans literacy development, dyslexia, cross-linguistic studies, bilingualism, and phonological/spelling development.
Key Research Areas:
- Literacy development in typical and atypical populations
- Cross-linguistic investigations of language-general vs. language-specific factors
- Creation of standardized test batteries for Czech, Slovak, English, Spanish, and Welsh literacy
- Development of MABEL: Multilanguage Assessment Battery for Early Literacy
- Neurodevelopmental disorders impacting literacy (dyslexia, DCD, language delay)
Academic Contributions: She supervises PhD and undergraduate students, teaches modules on Disorders of Literacy and Bilingualism: Research and Methods, and leads externally funded international projects. Her publications address orthographic consistency, phoneme awareness, and handwriting-legibility correlations in dyslexia.
Notable Projects: MABEL tool development (2021–2024), remote literacy programs (2020–2025), and ELDEL (2008–2022) for European literacy enhancement.
