Dr Victoria Williams
About
Biography
Vickie is a research fellow working on the Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Project: NIHR161818 - Investigating the conditions in which women GPs thrive in General Practice: What works, for whom, how and in what circumstances? Led by Dr Ruth Abrams.
Vickie is particularly interested in embodiment, temporality and interventions that support women’s health and wellbeing at work. Her doctoral thesis explores the experience of working with endometriosis and the influence of menstrual policy. Her research has so far advised parliamentary debates on supporting endometriosis in the workplace as well as the Women and Work APPG on menstrual wellbeing, and formed the basis of her TEDx talk ‘End-o, not the end of a career’. Vickie also sits on the Menstruation Friendly Independent Panel of experts accrediting organisations who support menstrual health at work.