Stories

As we celebrate International Women’s Day 2024, as well as being a time to celebrate women and their achievements, it is also a time to reflect on progress and what comes next.

Here at the University of Aberdeen, our staff menopause network is going from strength to strength. I became…

I am so grateful to receive the Anderson Prize for best overall performance and best thesis for the 2023-2024 academic year. 

Before beginning the psychology conversion course, I spent a year and a half as a nanny. Getting to see two bright, funny, and kind children experience new things, develop new…

It is a great honour to receive the Anderson prize for coursework and for best thesis for the Master of Research in psychology course.

I am especially surprised to be bestowed this award given the outstanding level of work and insight shown by my peers throughout the course. Speaking of…

This summer, I had the amazing opportunity to conduct a research internship surrounding maternity/parental leave at the School of Psychology with Dr Clare Sutherland. This internship was a part of the Athena Swan Program (https://www.advance-he.ac.uk) which is a program that helps promote intersectional gender equality at universities and other institutions.…

During the summer, I had the amazing opportunity to work on a two-month research internship at the School of Psychology as part oftheir commitments towards the Athena Swan Charter, which promotes the values of inclusion and equality in universities all over the country. The study I conducted, with the…