Contact

• workRoom B87 Medical School QMC
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Jessica.Hodgson@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Jessica is a Professor of Medical Education and Director of Quality and Governance for the School of Medicine. She is a Chartered Psychologist specialising in developmental cognitive neuropsychology. Jessica is also the Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education and Student Experience in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Expertise Summary

Jessica's research focuses on cognition of language and motor functions, within typical and atypical development. She has worked with various neuroimaging techniques, including fMRI and functional Transcranial Doppler (fTCD) ultrasonography and has experience in administering neuropsychological assessments to children and adults.

Selected Publications

• JESSICA HODGSON, JOSEPH MAHON, YVONNE MBAKI and DEBORAH MERRICK, 2023. Using experience from supporting medical students to develop effective near-peer mentoring in Higher Education IMPact - University of Lincoln. 6(2), 1-18
• JACK H. GRANT, ADAM J. PARKER, JESSICA C. HODGSON, JOHN HUDSON and DOROTHY VM BISHOP, 2023. Testing the relationship between lateralization on sequence-based motor tasks and language laterality using an online battery Laterality. 28(1), 1-23
• JESSICA IYAMU, JESSICA C. HODGSON and RACHAEL SHARPE, 2022. A narrative review of the late effects of paediatric cancer treatment within an educational setting: Existing evidence and where do we go from here? Chronic Illness. 18(3), 458-468
• AIDAN BARON, JESSICA HODGSON, GERRIE BEIRNE, ANN QUINTON and JASON BENDALL, 2022. The Sonographic Ooda Loop: Proposing a Beginner's Model for Learning Point-Of-Care Ultrasound Australasian Journal of Paramedicine.

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• ASHLEY AJIBADE, VICTORIA STORRY, CHARLOTTE SEWED and JESSICA HODGSON, 2024. A mixed methods investigation into GP attitudes and experiences of using social prescribing in their practice Journal of Public Health.
• JESSICA HODGSON, JOSEPH MAHON, YVONNE MBAKI and DEBORAH MERRICK, 2023. Using experience from supporting medical students to develop effective near-peer mentoring in Higher Education IMPact - University of Lincoln. 6(2), 1-18
• JACK H. GRANT, ADAM J. PARKER, JESSICA C. HODGSON, JOHN HUDSON and DOROTHY VM BISHOP, 2023. Testing the relationship between lateralization on sequence-based motor tasks and language laterality using an online battery Laterality. 28(1), 1-23
• JESSICA IYAMU, JESSICA C. HODGSON and RACHAEL SHARPE, 2022. A narrative review of the late effects of paediatric cancer treatment within an educational setting: Existing evidence and where do we go from here? Chronic Illness. 18(3), 458-468
• AIDAN BARON, JESSICA HODGSON, GERRIE BEIRNE, ANN QUINTON and JASON BENDALL, 2022. The Sonographic Ooda Loop: Proposing a Beginner's Model for Learning Point-Of-Care Ultrasound Australasian Journal of Paramedicine.
• ADAM PARKER, ZOE WOODHEAD, DAVID CAREY, MARGRIET GROEN, EVA GUTIERREZ-SIGUT, JESSICA HODGSON, JOHN HUDSON, EMMA M. KARLSSON, MAIRÉAD MACSWEENEY, HEATHER PAYNE, NUALA SIMPSON, PAUL THOMPSON, KATE WATKINS, CIARA EGAN, JACK GRANT, SOPHIE HARTE, SOPHIE HARTE and DOROTHY BISHOP, 2022. Inconsistent language lateralisation – Testing the dissociable language laterality hypothesis using behaviour and lateralised cerebral blood flow Cortex. 154, 105-134
• RACHAEL J. LAWRENCE, IAN M. WIGGINS, JESSICA C. HODGSON and DOUGLAS E.H. HARTLEY, 2021. Evaluating cortical responses to speech in children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study Hearing Research. 401, 108155
• DEBORAH MERRICK, JESSICA HODGSON, PAMELA HAGAN and YVONNE MBAKI, 2021. Virtual peer mentoring: A partnership between two UK Medical Schools Impact e-Journal. 4(1),
• JESSICA C. HODGSON, DANIEL RICHARDSON and JOHN HUDSON, 2021. The relationship between lateralization patterns from sequence based motor tasks and hemispheric speech dominance Neuropsychology. 35(2), 157-171
• JESSICA C. HODGSON and ROGER BRETHERTON, 2021. Twelve tips for novice academic staff supporting medical students in distress Medical Teacher. 43(7), 839-844
• JESSICA HODGSON and PAMELA HAGAN, 2020. Medical education adaptations during a pandemic: transitioning to virtual student support Medical Education. 54(7),
• JESSICA C. HODGSON, RACHEL TREMLIN and JOHN HUDSON, 2019. Disrupting the speech motor network: Exploring hemispheric specialization for verbal and manual sequencing using a dual-task approach Neuropsychology. 33(8),
• JESSICA HODGSON and JOHN HUDSON, 2018. Speech lateralization and motor control Progress in Brain Research. 238, 145-178
• JESSICA C. HODGSON and JOHN HUDSON, 2017. Measurement reliability of atypical language lateralisation assessed using functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound Biological Psychology. 125, 173-176
• HODGSON, J. C. and HUDSON, J. M., 2016. Atypical speech lateralization in adults with developmental coordination disorder demonstrated using functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound. Journal of Neuropsychology.
• HUDSON, J. M. and HODGSON, J. C., 2016. Is digit ratio (2D:4D) a reliable pointer to speech laterality? Behavioural Brain Research. 301, 258–261
• J C HODGSON, REBECCA J HIRST and JOHN M HUDSON, 2016. Hemispheric speech lateralisation in the developing brain is related to motor praxis ability Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
• J C HODGSON and J M HUDSON, 2015. Speech and motor lateralisation in adults with Developmental Coordination Disorder: a functional Transcranial Doppler imaging study Journal of Comorbidity. 5(2), 54
• HODGSON, JESSICA C., BENATTAYALLAH, ABDELMALEK and HODGSON, TIMOTHY L., 2014. The role of the dominant versus the non-dominant hemisphere: An fMRI study of Aphasia recovery following stroke APHASIOLOGY. 28(12), 1426-1447