Dr Victoria Wright
MSc PhD (Swansea)

Lecturer in Psychology
Contact Details
- Email: viw8@aber.ac.uk
- Office: 0.12, Penbryn Building 5
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 628772
- Twitter: @victoriapsych
- Research Portal Profile
Please note: The Welsh version of this profile contains additional or more detailed information.
Teaching
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- PS31920 - The Psychology of Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring
- PSS0300 - Work Placement
- BR37020 - Applied Sport & Exercise Psychology
- PS11520 - Applications of Psychology
- PS22120 - Foundations of Counselling II: Further Skills and Theory
- PS34220 - Cognitive Psychology
- PSS0360 - Work Placement
- SC34100 - Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer cyd-anrhydedd
- PS11110 - Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice in Counselling
- PS11320 - Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
- PS21410 - Qualitative Research Methods
- PS21720 - Issues in Clinical Psychology
- PS22100 - Foundations of Counselling II: Further Skills and Theory
- PS31720 - 21st Century Self: Critical and Constructionist Approaches to Contemporary Personhood
- PS32120 - Behavioural Neuroscience
- PS33100 - Psychology Research Project for Single Honours
- SC34120 - Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer cyd-anrhydedd
- PS11220 - Brain, Behaviour and Cognition
- PS11610 - Designing Psychological Research Projects
- PS11710 - Personal Development and Organisational Behaviour
- PS20220 - Social Psychology
- PS33140 - Psychology Research Project for Single Honours
- PSS0200 - Work Placement
- SC33100 - Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer anrhydedd sengl
- PS21020 - Evolutionary Psychology
- PS33200 - Counselling Research Project
- SC11320 - Cyflwyniad i ddulliau ymchwil mewn seicoleg
- PS11300 - Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
- PS12120 - Foundations of Counselling: Skills & Theory 1
- PS21620 - Psychology of Humour
- PS31520 - Psychology Critical Review
- PS31620 - The Social Psychology of Music
- PS32020 - The Psychology of Language
- PS11820 - Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
- PS21220 - Forensic Psychology
- PS21820 - Cognitive Psychology
- PS33240 - Counselling Research Project
- PS34100 - Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours
- PS34120 - Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours
- PS34320 - Developmental Psychology
- PSS0260 - Work Placement
- SC11300 - Cyflwyniad i ddulliau ymchwil mewn seicoleg
- SC33140 - Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer anrhydedd sengl
- PS11420 - Introduction to core topics in Social and Individual Behaviour
- PS20720 - Health Psychology
- PS21310 - Quantitative Research Methods
- PS21520 - Gender and the Media
- PS30820 - Drugs and Behaviour
Course Viewer
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 13.00-15.00
- Tuesday 9.30-10.30