Rate My Professor Kyle Jones

Dr. Kyle Jones is a Lecturer in Psychology at Swansea University’s School of Psychology, part of the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences. He earned his BSc in Psychology from the University of South Wales, MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and Research Methods from Swansea University, and PhD in Psychology from Swansea University. In his roles as Head of Welsh provision in the Psychology department and Director of Communications for the Swansea University Dementia Research Group, he develops Welsh-medium learning materials to support Welsh-speaking students and promotes dementia research outreach. Fluent in Welsh, Jones teaches modules on academic skills, statistics, research methods, and professional development, including Welsh-language versions such as PSA100W, PSY100W, PSY101W, PSY237W, and PSY238W.

Jones’s research expertise lies in dementia and cognitive psychology, focusing on mitigating cognitive decline from pathology and aging, enhancing cognition in healthy adults, and investigating cognitive reserve and bilingualism’s protective effects. His studies examine behavioral factors influencing cognitive functioning, the efficacy of machine learning in complex cognitive analyses, and mental health impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Key publications include co-authorship of “Can Machines Find the Bilingual Advantage? Machine Learning Algorithms Find No Evidence to Differentiate Between Lifelong Bilingual and Monolingual Cognitive Profiles” (2021) and “A case for the use of deep learning algorithms for individual and population level assessments of mental health disorders: Predicting depression among China's elderly” (2024). He has presented at international conferences, such as the 48th Poznan Linguistic Meeting (2018) on cognitive reserve in Alzheimer’s disease, Changing Lives-Changing Worlds Conference (2017) on bilingual cognitive functions in older adults, and Cynhadledd Ymchwil Gregynog (2016). Awards include the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol PhD Scholarship (2015), first place for contributions to Welsh academia (2019), and a £105,000 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Stimulus Grant (2019-2020) for bilingualism and dementia research. Through the Dragon Research Partnership, he builds a Welsh-speaking volunteer network for interdisciplinary bilingual studies on language processing and cultural perceptions, enhancing community engagement and Wales’s bilingual research profile.