Dr Victoria Wright
MSc PhD (Swansea)
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Contact Details
- Email: viw8@aber.ac.uk
- Office: 0.12, Penbryn Building 5
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 628772
- Research Portal Profile
Please note: The Welsh version of this profile contains additional or more detailed information.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
Coordinator
Lecturer
- PS21820 - Cognitive Psychology
- PS21310 - Quantitative Research Methods
- PS34120 - Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours
- SC33240 - Prosiect Ymchwil Cwnsella
- SC33140 - Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer anrhydedd sengl
- PS33140 - Psychology Research Project for Single Honours
- PS33240 - Counselling Research Project
- SC34120 - Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer cyd-anrhydedd
- PS22120 - Foundations of Counselling II: Further Skills and Theory
- PS20620 - Psychology in Practice
- PS20420 - The Psychology of Language
- SC20720 - Seicoleg Iechyd
- SC21310 - Dulliau Ymchwil Meintiol
- PS21220 - Forensic Psychology
- PS21720 - Issues in Clinical Psychology
- PS20720 - Health Psychology
- PS21020 - Evolutionary Psychology
Moderator
- PS30820 - Drugs and Behaviour
- PS31920 - The Psychology of Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring
- PS32620 - Psychology of Humour
- PS31520 - Psychology Critical Review
- PS31820 - Child Language: Development and Assessment
- PS32320 - Sex and relationships in psychotherapeutic practice
- PS35120 - Psychological Wellbeing in the Workplace
- PS30620 - Psychology in Practice
- PS31720 - 21st Century Self: Critical and Constructionist Approaches to Contemporary Personhood
- PS34220 - Cognitive Psychology
- PS34320 - Developmental Psychology
- PSS0360 - Work Placement
- PS32120 - Behavioural Neuroscience
- PS21410 - Qualitative Research Methods
Grader
Victoria has experience of teaching and coordination across a range of core undergraduate modules including quantitative research methods, psychobiology and cognition. She also uses her research expertise to deliver a specialist option module in Psycholinguistics to final year undergraduates. Dr Wright also supervises undergraduate dissertations in the broad field of cognitive psychology utilising, a range of research methods, techniques and analyses.
Research
Victoria has wide-ranging experience in conducting psycholinguistic research that draws upon a range of cognitive neuroscience techniques to address key research questions. Work to date focuses on the performance of the cerebral hemispheres during written word recognition, the influence of psycholinguistic variables on reading performance in healthy readers and on the reading performance of brain-injured patients.
Victoria has both national and international research collaborators, including Dr Jeremy Tree (Swansea, UK), Dr Cristina Izura (Swansea, UK), Dr Rhian Worth (University of South Wales, UK), Professor Rhys Jones (Aberystwyth, UK), Dr Jona Sassenhagen (University of Frankfurt, Germany) and Dr Alexander Dröge (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany).Victoria is currently working on research funded by Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol that examines the memory performance of Welsh-speakers. In collaboration with Professor Rhys Jones at Aberystwyth, Victoria is also currently exploring how Welsh-English bilinguals make decisions about which language to use to initiate a conversation (funded by Aberystwyth University Research Fund).
Office Hours (Student Contact Times)
- Monday 13.15-14.45
- Tuesday 9.30-10.30