Simon Dymond, PhD, BCBA-D, is a reader in psychology at Swansea University. He received his undergraduate training and PhD (in 1996) from University College Cork, where he studied under Dermot Barnes-Holmes. He has published over seventy empirical research articles on derived relational responding, avoidance, and gambling, and currently sits on several editorial boards of publications, including the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and The Psychological Record.