Victoria Goodyear is an Associate Professor in Pedagogy in Sport, Physical Activity and Health in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences and The Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham, UK. She is the Training Director for CENTRE-UB. Victoria is a behavioural researcher in school-based qualitative and mixed method research in youth health and wellbeing, with a focus on pedagogy.
A key focus of her research has been on social media and digital technologies, specifically relating to how smartphones and social media inform young people’s mental health and wellbeing, physical activity behaviours and their learning. Her work has been published in high ranking education and public health journals as lead or senior author (e.g., BMJ, Teaching and Teacher Education), with articles and impacts from research returned in the REF. Victoria’s research has been funded by research councils, trusts/charities and industry (e.g., NIHR, ESRC, Wellcome Trust and Google) and she has a sustained track record, both in working collaboratively with national partners (e.g., ukactive, Football Association), stakeholders (e.g., young people, schoolteachers, school leaders) and government (e.g., UK Chief Medical Officer UK Physical Activity Committee, Online Harms Bill), and in working to provide expert advice to these respective parties.
Her public engagement activities involve communications with public and professional audiences about research, including talks at public engagement events (e.g. British Science Festival, Being Human Festival), the development of online professional development courses (with FutureLearn, Wiley and Google), presentations in practice and industry facing conferences (e.g., Elevate), the delivery of workshops (e.g., Child and Adolescents Psychiatrists Committee), and the publication of articles/reports intended for professional audiences (e.g., Guidelines, The Conversation).
She has also worked with national broadcast media (e.g., BBC, Sky News) across TV, Radio, Print, and Podcast mediums, to engage with broad and diverse audiences.