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Vivienne started her career as a research cell biologist with an MRC-funded PhD studentship at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a postdoctoral position at the MRC Radiobiology Unit at Harwell. She then spent 14 years at the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell (later AEA Technology plc), undertaking contract research on a range of cell biology projects, before moving away from the bench and into research administration.
From 2015 to 2026, Vivienne was Unit Administrator of the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford, where she played key roles in Unit strategy and governance, financial management and planning, assurance reporting, human resource administration, and public engagement and communications.