Hi, my name is Claire, and my PhD research focused on how health comics can be used to communicate health information. There are many challenges of communicating complex health information to the population, and poorly communicated health information can create distrust, confusion and risky health behaviours. Comics can meet these…
In the summer of 2025, I was fortunate to be offered my first research internship within the School of Psychology. My project, which lasted six weeks, focused on exploring the impact of generative AI on underrepresented groups in higher education. This internship caught my eye immediately, as being part of…
I did an Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion internship with the university over the summer of 2025. My internship topic was evaluating accessibility and inclusivity in teaching materials, supervised by Dr Zeshu Shao. This is something that I’m passionate about because, being neurodivergent, I understand how important it is…
Caitlin McKenzie, a third-year Neuroscience and Psychology student, completed a summer internship project titled “Do Autistic Women Experience Menopause Differently?" Caitlin carried out this project under the supervision of Linda Engles, CPsychol (School of Psychology) and Dr Shannon Babbie (School of Education). Find out about their findings below.
Introduction
Menopause is…
Reflections on My MSc Journey in Psychology
I’m deeply honoured to have won the Anderson Prize for the highest performing student in MSc Psychological Studies in the 24-25 academic year. This recognition is both humbling and deeply meaningful to me—it reflects not only personal effort, but also the incredible…
My EDI internship in the School of Psychology, ran from June to August 2025, and involved conducting an evaluation of Aurora: Women’s Leadership Development Programme which has been delivered at the University of Aberdeen since 2013 with over 100 delegates having particpated. The aim of the programme is to address…
I feel honoured to have been awarded both the John Shepherd Prize and the Anderson Prize for the best thesis and highest performance in the MRes Psychology 2024-2025.
My thesis, "Conditioned Delusions", examined predictive processing during naturalistic reading using eye-tracking. We explored how reading behaviour changes when…
I am honoured to have been awarded the John Shepherd Prize for best MRes Psychology thesis in 2024-25, titled “Improving the Diagnostic Value of Person Descriptions”. This recognition means a great deal to me, as it marks the culmination of a challenging but rewarding year of study.
This award feels…
I was delighted to learn I had been selected as the joint winner of the School of Psychology's Postgraduate Prize for Outreach! I'm grateful to the prize panel for this recognition, and I was particularly touched that the panel commended my leadership in organising “Perceptio-Nite” at the European Conference on…
Winning the Postgraduate Prize for Outreach for my contributions to Illusion Night—part of the European Conference of Visual Perception (ECVP)—is truly an honour. ECVP was a tremendous success, not only for the School of Psychology and the University of Aberdeen, but for the city of Aberdeen as a whole.
Illusion…
