Dr Victoria Wright

MSc PhD (Swansea)

Module Coordinator

• PS21820 - Cognitive Psychology
• PS32020 - The Psychology of Language
• PS34220 - Cognitive Psychology

Additional Lecturer

• PS31920 - The Psychology of Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring
• PS11320 - Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
• PS33140 - Psychology Research Project for Single Honours

Coordinator

• PS34220 - Cognitive Psychology
• PS21820 - Cognitive Psychology
• PS32020 - The Psychology of Language

Lecturer

• PS21820 - Cognitive Psychology
• PS32020 - The Psychology of Language
• PS34220 - Cognitive Psychology

Tutor

• PS34220 - Cognitive Psychology
• PS21820 - Cognitive Psychology
• PS32020 - The Psychology of Language

Blackboard Dept Admin

• PS20220 - Social Psychology
• PS31720 - 21st Century Self: Critical and Constructionist Approaches to Contemporary Personhood
• PS12120 - Foundations of Counselling: Skills & Theory 1
• PS21220 - Forensic Psychology
• PS21520 - Gender and the Media
• PS21720 - Issues in Clinical Psychology
• PS30820 - Drugs and Behaviour
• PS11110 - Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice in Counselling
• SC20620 - Seicoleg mewn gweithred
• BR37020 - Applied Sport & Exercise Psychology
• PS11710 - Personal Development and Organisational Behaviour
• PS21620 - Psychology of Humour
• PS11610 - Designing Psychological Research Projects
• PS21410 - Qualitative Research Methods
• PS31620 - The Social Psychology of Music
• PS21310 - Quantitative Research Methods
• PS20620 - Psychology in Practice
• PS34320 - Developmental Psychology and Individual Differences
• PS32120 - Behavioural Neuroscience
• PS20720 - Health Psychology
• PS11520 - Applications of Psychology

Attendance Dept Admin

• PS21020 - Evolutionary Psychology
• PS11220 - Brain, Behaviour and Cognition
• PS11820 - Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology

Course Viewer

• PS11420 - Introduction to core topics in Social and Individual Behaviour

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.

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).