Victoria Lister

Victoria is a Research Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the School of Psychology.

Working Thesis Title

Investigating the Pathways of Men who Engage in Voyeurism. 

• Understanding sexual offending from a social cognitive approach
• Indirect measurement of sexual interest
• The development of paraphilia
• Risk assessment and treatment needs of sexual offenders

In her PhD, Victoria aims to explore the paraphilia and sexual offence, voyeurism. Using a bottom-up approach, the development of voyeurism and how this manifests as a sexual offence will be investigated. Further, an exploration into understanding the social and cognitive factors attributed with committing a voyeuristic offence will be undertaken. Following this, the development of appropriate direct and indirect measures of voyeurism will be created and validated.

Selected publications

Publications

• Bartels, R., Lister, V. P. M., Imhoff, R., & Banse, R. (2018). Tracking mouse trajectories related to decisions about sexual interest. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Conference presentations

• 2019, November. V. Lister & R. Bartels. Using Mousetracker to assess age-specific sexual interest. Poster presentation at the 38th Annual Research and Treatment Conference for the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. 2-3rd May 2018. Atlanta, Georgia.
• 2018, May. V. Lister & R. Bartels. Using Mousetracker to assess age-specific sexual interest. Talk given at the University of Lincoln Student Conference. 2-3rd May 2018. Lincoln, England.
• 2018, April. V. Lister & R. Bartels. Using Mousetracker to assess age-specific sexual interest. Talk given at the British Conference for Undergraduate Research. 16-17th April 2018. Sheffield, England.
• 2018, January. V. Lister & R. Bartels. Using Mousetracker to assess age-specific sexual interest. Poster presented at the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity annual conference. 27th January 2018. London, England.
• 2017, November. R. Bromnick & V. Lister. Presentation Anxiety in Psychology students: A factor analytic study. Talk to the PROF group at the University of Lincoln. 10th November 2017. Lincoln, England.
• 2017, September. R. Bromnick & V. Lister. Presentation Anxiety in Psychology students: A factor analytic study. Talk given at the University of Lincoln Higher Education Research Institute conference. 13th September 2017. Lincoln, England.
• 2017, May. V. Lister & R. Bartels. Mousetracker as an indirect measure of sexual interest in children in the general population. Talk given to the Forensic and Clinical Research Group at the University of Lincoln. 17th May 2017. Lincoln, England.
• 2017, May. V. Lister & R. Bartels. Mousetracker as an indirect measure of sexual interest in children in the general population. Talk given, and poster presented at the University of Lincoln student conference. 3-4th May 2017. Lincoln, England.

Supervisory team

• Professor Theresa Gannon (1st supervisor)
• Dr Caoilte Ó Ciardha (2nd supervisor)
  

Funding

GTA studentship   

Current roles

• Research Assistant to Prof Theresa Gannon (Nov 2019 – Present)
• Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent (Sept 2018 – Present)
• Trained Circles Volunteer (Nov 2018 – Present)
• Lincolnshire Action Trust Sessional Support Worker (Aug 2018 – Present)

Previous experience

• Research Assistant to Dr Ross Bartels (Jan 2016 – Oct 2018)
• Research Assistant to Dr Patrick Hylton (May 2017 – Oct 2018)
• Student Researcher (April 2018 – Sept 2018)

Awards

• Marnie Rice Student Poster Award at the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers 38th Annual Research and Treatment Conference
• School of Psychology Achievement Award at the University of Lincoln (2017)
• The Lincoln Award at the University of Lincoln (2017)
• Gold Volunteering Award at the University of Lincoln (2016, 2017)
• Psychology at Work Award at the University of Lincoln (2016)

Professional membership

• Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group (PsyPAG)