Rate My Professor Simon Dymond

Professor Simon Dymond is Professor of Psychology and Behaviour Analysis in the School of Psychology at Swansea University, a position he has held since joining the institution in 2005. He earned his BA (Hons) in Applied Psychology and PhD in Applied Psychology from University College Cork, Ireland. Prior to Swansea, Dymond held academic appointments at Bangor University and Anglia Ruskin University, where he joined the Psychology Department in 1998. As Director of the Gambling Research, Education and Treatment (GREAT) Centre, Director of the Centre for Military Gambling Research (MilGAM), and Co-Director of the Experimental Psychopathology Lab, he oversees translational neurobehavioral research addressing gambling disorders, particularly among UK armed forces veterans and personnel. His leadership through the GREAT Network Wales advances research, education, treatment, and consultancy services for gambling-related harms affecting individuals, families, and communities.

Dymond's research specializations encompass gambling disorder, learning processes, experimental psychopathology, and clinical behaviour analysis. Key areas of expertise include learning and behaviour analysis, anxiety disorders, relational frame theory, avoidance learning, and interventions for problematic gambling. He has produced an extensive body of peer-reviewed publications, including 'Qualitative exploration of gambling harm among UK veterans: normalisation, stigma and postservice escalation' (BMJ Open, 2025), 'Gambling, suicide and mental health treatment utilisation in Wales: case–control, whole-population-based study' (BJPsych Open, 2025), 'Smartphone app-delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for post-traumatic stress disorder and gambling harm in veterans: A pilot feasibility study' (Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 2025), 'A scoping review of routinely collected linked data in research on gambling harm' (npj Digital Medicine, 2025), and 'Dark patterns in online gambling: A scoping review and classification of deceptive design practices' (Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 2025). These contributions have informed policy discussions, screening tools, and treatment strategies, underscoring his impact on understanding and mitigating gambling harms in clinical and public health contexts.