Vicky currently works as a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Work Related Studies at the University of Chester, where she specialises in the development of resilience, applied coaching skills and reflective practice, supporting students to study for under-graduate and post-graduate degrees using an integrated work-based approach to their studies. She is particularly interested in developing tools and techniques to support people work with the internal challenges - such as fear, doubt, overwhelm, overdrive and confusion - that often seem to come when people are making or experiencing a significant change, even when they have chosen that change for themselves. She is currently carrying out research into the development of resilience by people who are self-employed.