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Dr Victoria Timperley
(she/her)
Lecturer, Education
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am a Childhood and Youth researcher, my interests include neurodiversity, disabilities and digital gaming, gender and sexualities, relationships and sexualities education. I am interested in psycho-social approaches and projects that consider the affective dimensions of participants’ lives.
My expertise is in qualitative, creative and visual methods, and co-producing research with children and young people. I am committed to working ethically and ensuring that participants understand the research process and are happy to be involved in research projects; I developed The Case of Ethics as a tool to support ethical practice.
I am co-convener of the Childhood and Youth Research Group and the Mature Student's Coffee Club and I teach on modules in Education, Human and Social Sciences and Sociology.
My recent book Sandboxing in Practice: Qualitative Interviewing with Sand, Objects, and Figures will be published in the Policy Press series Creative Research Methods in Practice in 2025.
Publication
2025
- Mannay, D. and Timperley, V. 2025. Sandboxing in Practice: Qualitative Interviewing with Sand, Objects and Figures. Creative Research Methods in Practice. Bristol: Policy Press.
2024
- Renold, E. and Timperley, V. 2024. UnboXing relationships and sexuality education with a phEmaterialist arts-activist praxis. Gender and Education (10.1080/09540253.2024.2370271)
- Renold, E., Bragg, S., Ringrose, J., Milne, B., McGeeney, E. and Timperley, V. 2024. Attune, animate and amplify: Creating youth voice assemblages in pARTicipatory sexuality education research. Children & Society (10.1111/chso.12862)
- Timperley, V. 2024. The case of ethics: Materialising informed consent with children and young people. Presented at: International Creative Research Methods Conference, Manchester, UK, 9-10 September 2024.
2023
- Renold, E. J. and Timperley, V. 2023. Once upon a crush story: transforming relationships and sexuality education with a postqualitative art-ful praxis. Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning 23(3), pp. 304-314. (10.1080/14681811.2022.2090915)
2020
- Timperley, V. 2020. Making gender trouble: a creative and participatory research project with neurodiverse teen gamers. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
- Stroud, D., Timperley, V. and Weinel, M. 2020. Digitised drones in the steel industry: the social shaping of technology. Relations Industrielles/ Industrial Relations 75(4), pp. 730-750.
- Williams, A., Edwards, V., Doherty, E., Allnatt, G., Bayfield, H., Lyttleton-Smith, J. and Warner, N. 2020. Care-experienced young people and higher education. Project Report. [Online]. London: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WWCSC_Care-experienced-Young-People-and-Higher-Education_report_May_2020_3-1.pdf
2018
- Stanley, S., Edwards, V., Ibinarriaga-Soltero, B. and Krause, G. 2018. Awakening psychology: investigating everyday life with social mindfulness.. In: SAGE Research Methods Cases in Psychology. SAGE, (10.4135/9781526440853)
2017
- Mannay, D., Staples, E. and Edwards, V. 2017. Visual methodologies, sand and psychoanalysis: employing creative participatory techniques to explore the educational experiences of mature students and children in care. Visual Studies 32(4), pp. 345-358. (10.1080/1472586X.2017.1363636)
2015
- Stanley, S., Barker, M., Edwards, V. and McEwen, E. 2015. Swimming against the stream?: Mindfulness as a psychosocial research methodology. Qualitative Research in Psychology 12(1), pp. 61-76. (10.1080/14780887.2014.958394)
- Mannay, D. and Edwards, V. 2015. Visual methods and the World Technique: the importance of the elicitation interview in understanding non-traditional students’ journeys through university. [SAGE Research Methods Datasets]. SAGE Publications. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781473938076
- Mannay, D. and Edwards, V. 2015. Visual methodologies, sand and psychoanalysis: Exploring creative participatory techniques to engage with subjective experiences through ‘the world technique’. Presented at: 4th International Visual Methods Conference, Brighton, UK, 16-18 September 2015.
- Mannay, D. and Edwards, V. 2015. Sandboxes, psychoanalysis and participatory practice: Refiguring therapeutic techniques as ethical visual research methods. Presented at: British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Glasgow, UK, 15-17 April 2015.
2014
- Mannay, D. and Edwards, V. 2014. Sand, psychoanalysis and visual methodologies: Exploring creative techniques to engage with subjective experiences of marginalised students in Higher Education. Presented at: Visual Methodologies: A Postdiscipline of Inclusions?, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 19-21 June 2014.
- Mannay, D. and Edwards, V. 2014. Coffee, milk and a sprinkling of sand: an initiative to assist non-traditional, mature students form supportive networks in Higher Education. Presented at: 2014 FACE Annual Conference, Salford University, Salford, UK, 2 - 4 July 2014.
2013
- Mannay, D. and Edwards, V. 2013. It’s written in the sand: Employing sandboxing to explore the experiences of non-traditional, mature students in higher education. Presented at: Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Research Conference 2013, Celtic Manor, Newport, Wales, UK, 11-13 December 2013.
Articles
- Renold, E. and Timperley, V. 2024. UnboXing relationships and sexuality education with a phEmaterialist arts-activist praxis. Gender and Education (10.1080/09540253.2024.2370271)
- Renold, E., Bragg, S., Ringrose, J., Milne, B., McGeeney, E. and Timperley, V. 2024. Attune, animate and amplify: Creating youth voice assemblages in pARTicipatory sexuality education research. Children & Society (10.1111/chso.12862)
- Renold, E. J. and Timperley, V. 2023. Once upon a crush story: transforming relationships and sexuality education with a postqualitative art-ful praxis. Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning 23(3), pp. 304-314. (10.1080/14681811.2022.2090915)
- Stroud, D., Timperley, V. and Weinel, M. 2020. Digitised drones in the steel industry: the social shaping of technology. Relations Industrielles/ Industrial Relations 75(4), pp. 730-750.
- Mannay, D., Staples, E. and Edwards, V. 2017. Visual methodologies, sand and psychoanalysis: employing creative participatory techniques to explore the educational experiences of mature students and children in care. Visual Studies 32(4), pp. 345-358. (10.1080/1472586X.2017.1363636)
- Stanley, S., Barker, M., Edwards, V. and McEwen, E. 2015. Swimming against the stream?: Mindfulness as a psychosocial research methodology. Qualitative Research in Psychology 12(1), pp. 61-76. (10.1080/14780887.2014.958394)
Book sections
- Stanley, S., Edwards, V., Ibinarriaga-Soltero, B. and Krause, G. 2018. Awakening psychology: investigating everyday life with social mindfulness.. In: SAGE Research Methods Cases in Psychology. SAGE, (10.4135/9781526440853)
Books
- Mannay, D. and Timperley, V. 2025. Sandboxing in Practice: Qualitative Interviewing with Sand, Objects and Figures. Creative Research Methods in Practice. Bristol: Policy Press.
Conferences
- Timperley, V. 2024. The case of ethics: Materialising informed consent with children and young people. Presented at: International Creative Research Methods Conference, Manchester, UK, 9-10 September 2024.
- Mannay, D. and Edwards, V. 2015. Visual methodologies, sand and psychoanalysis: Exploring creative participatory techniques to engage with subjective experiences through ‘the world technique’. Presented at: 4th International Visual Methods Conference, Brighton, UK, 16-18 September 2015.
- Mannay, D. and Edwards, V. 2015. Sandboxes, psychoanalysis and participatory practice: Refiguring therapeutic techniques as ethical visual research methods. Presented at: British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Glasgow, UK, 15-17 April 2015.
- Mannay, D. and Edwards, V. 2014. Sand, psychoanalysis and visual methodologies: Exploring creative techniques to engage with subjective experiences of marginalised students in Higher Education. Presented at: Visual Methodologies: A Postdiscipline of Inclusions?, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 19-21 June 2014.
- Mannay, D. and Edwards, V. 2014. Coffee, milk and a sprinkling of sand: an initiative to assist non-traditional, mature students form supportive networks in Higher Education. Presented at: 2014 FACE Annual Conference, Salford University, Salford, UK, 2 - 4 July 2014.
- Mannay, D. and Edwards, V. 2013. It’s written in the sand: Employing sandboxing to explore the experiences of non-traditional, mature students in higher education. Presented at: Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Research Conference 2013, Celtic Manor, Newport, Wales, UK, 11-13 December 2013.
Datasets
- Mannay, D. and Edwards, V. 2015. Visual methods and the World Technique: the importance of the elicitation interview in understanding non-traditional students’ journeys through university. [SAGE Research Methods Datasets]. SAGE Publications. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781473938076
Monographs
- Williams, A., Edwards, V., Doherty, E., Allnatt, G., Bayfield, H., Lyttleton-Smith, J. and Warner, N. 2020. Care-experienced young people and higher education. Project Report. [Online]. London: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WWCSC_Care-experienced-Young-People-and-Higher-Education_report_May_2020_3-1.pdf
Thesis
- Timperley, V. 2020. Making gender trouble: a creative and participatory research project with neurodiverse teen gamers. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Teaching
I convene the Msc Education module, Psychological approaches to Teaching and Learning.
On the undergraduate Education programme I deliver lectures on Disability, Children and Gaming and Children and the politics of place.
For the Human and Social Science undergraduate programme I teach on the module Issues in Social and Cultural Psychology.
For the Sociology undergraduate programme I teach on the Live theory module (Sophie Lewis and family abolition) and the Monsters Myths and Legends module (Witches and feminism).
I have delivered guest lectures and workshops on research ethics (The Case of Ethics) at the University of the West of England (UWE) and Oulu University in Finland.
Biography
I returned to higher education as a mature student studying first with the Open University. My undergraduate degree in Social Science (BPS), Msc in Social Science Research Methods and PhD in neurodiverse teen's gendered gaming experiences were all at Cardiff.
My previous employment experience includes:
Civil Service, Senior Research Officer for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
The Open University (teaching on Childhood and Social Science modules)
Welsh Government, consultant informing the development of new curriculum for Wales
Community outreach drug and alcohol harm reduction for people involved in the criminal justice system
Prison drug and alcohol counsellor
Prison and probation service
Professional memberships
I am a graduate member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Speaking engagements
Timperley, V. (2024) The Case of Ethics. International Creative Research Methods conference.
Committees and reviewing
I am a member of the school's ethics committee (SREC)
Supervisions
I am interested in supervising students who use creative and participatory methods in co-produced research.
Current supervision
Huw Berry-Downs
Research student
Janak Howard
Research student
Andy Williams
Research student
Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- creative methods
- Gender
- Sexualities
- Special education and disability
- Neurodiversity
