Victoria Bourne

Victoria Bourne is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her academic focus combines teaching methodology with neuropsychological research. She specializes in statistical pedagogy, addressing student anxiety around quantitative methods, and has authored a textbook for psychology undergraduates. Her research explores face processing mechanisms, brain lateralization differences, and the influence of hormones and mood on emotion perception.

Education: PhD from University of Sussex, followed by roles at Aberdeen and Dundee Universities before joining Royal Holloway in 2011.

Research Interests: Pedagogical innovations to reduce statistics anxiety, neuropsychological processing of emotional faces, and sex differences in brain lateralization. Current work examines individual differences in emotional face processing linked to prenatal testosterone exposure and personality traits.

Awards: National Teaching Fellow (2017) and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2017). Holds roles in British Psychological Society committees including the Division of Academics, Researchers and Teachers in Psychology and the Mathematical, Statistical and Computing Section.

Projects include studies on postnatal mood's impact on brain function and hormonal influences on interhemispheric transfer. Recent work evaluates online interventions for statistics anxiety.

Labs/Teams: Collaborates across UK universities on pedagogical initiatives and maintains active research programs in cognitive neuroscience and educational psychology.