Staff profile

Responsibilities

Victoria is the Senior Digital Development and Communications Manager in Durham's Institute for Medical Humanities and Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.

She is responsible for devising and overseeing the delivery of the digital development and communications strategy for both the Platform and the Institute.

Background

Victoria was the Communications, Impact and Engagement Lead for Hearing the Voice – a 10-year interdisciplinary research project on voice-hearing funded by the Wellcome Trust (2012–2022).

She has a BPhil and a DPhil in philosophy from the University of Oxford and has expertise in digital health interventions at postgraduate level. 

Journal Article

• Dudley, R., Dodgson, G., Common, S., O'Grady, L., Watson, F., Gibbs, C., Arnott, B., Fernyhough, C., Alderson-Day, B., Ogundimu, E., Kharatikoopaei, E., Patton, V., & Aynsworth, C. (2022). Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences in People with First-Episode Psychosis (MUSE FEP): a study protocol for a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled feasibility trial. BMJ Open, 12(5), Article e061827. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061827
• Dodgson, G., Aynsworth, C., Mitrenga, K. J., Gibbs, C., Patton, V., Fernyhough, C., Dudley, R., Ewels, C., Leach, L., Alderson‐Day, B., & Common, S. (2021). Managing unusual sensory experiences: A feasibility trial in an At Risk Mental States for psychosis group. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 94(3), 481 - 503. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12323