Victoria Ruby-Granger
Victoria completed her PhD in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University and is currently Senior Lecturer in Psychology at DMU. She currently leads the third-year module Well-being and Positive Psychology and teaches on the MSc in Mental Health and Wellbeing with a focus on qualitative methodologies, contemporary wellbeing theories and nature connectedness.
Her current research projects include an exploration of wellbeing and character strength in Shotokan karate practitioners; my primary research area is hoarding and hoarding behaviours although she is interested in a number of topics related to wellbeing, nature connectedness and applied research which aims to support and improve the lives of various groups including people with hoarding difficulties and victim-survivors of domestic abuse
Academic publications
Cena, E., Brooks, J., Day, W., Goodman, S., Rousaki, A., Ruby-Granger, V., & Seymour-Smith, S. (2024). Quality Criteria: General and Specific Guidelines for Qualitative Approaches in Psychology Research. A Concise Guide for Novice Researchers and Reviewers. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241282843
Ruby-Granger, V., Wilde, D., Seymour-Smith, S., & Zysk, E. (2023). Struggling to manage: A constructivist grounded theory of hoarding behaviours. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 33(5), 1280-1296 https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2721
Victoria’s writing has also feature in The Conversation: