Stories

The School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen has launched a new student story video featuring MSc Psychological Studies with Mental Health student, Neetika Sharma, who shares her inspiring journey from India to Scotland and the experiences that helped shape her postgraduate studies.

Moving overseas to pursue further education…

Shaobo Xu was awarded the Anderson Prize for Best Overall Performance on the MSc Psychological Studies programme and is the joint winner of the Elizabeth Fraser Prize for Outstanding Thesis. Below, Shaobo shares some of their experiences of studying on the MSc Psychological Studues programme.

How would you describe your…

The research I conducted for my MSc Psychological Studies with Organisational Psychology thesis was the icing on the cake of a fantastic year with the School of Psychology. I have enjoyed being part of a brilliant cohort of Masters students with their impressive cognitive plasticity. Having access to the latest…

I am deeply honoured to receive the Best Overall MSc Performance award for the MSc Psychology of Mental Health 2025-2026 programme. This award represents not only the hard work and commitment I put in, but also the encouragement and support I received from my lecturers, friends, and family.

I am…

I am honoured to have received the School of Psychology’s Anderson Prize for the highest performing student in MRes and the John Shepherd Prize for the joint outstanding MRes thesis in the 2025-26 academic year.

Having completed my undergraduate degree at Aberdeen, I wanted to continue the research I had…

During the summer of 2026, I had the opportunity to undertake an EDI research internship within the School of Psychology, investigating whether generative AI can be used to promote feedback literacy in higher education, with a particular focus on metacognition and on supporting students from underrepresented backgrounds, including neurodivergent students…

This summer, I completed an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) research internship at the University of Aberdeen, looking at how neurodivergent students experience learning in higher education and what could be done to make teaching and the curriculum more inclusive.

I was really interested in this project because it brings…

I am honoured to have received the Henry Prize for highest marks in the Final Honours examination for the School of Psychology, and the British Psychological Society’s Undergraduate Award. With my graduation fast approaching and the intimidating world of graduate employment looming on the horizon, finding these email in my…

I am delighted to be undertaking a Discovering Research Internship within the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen. Over the course of my degree, my interest in psychology has increasingly grown towards cognitive neuroscience, particularly related to language processing and memory. As I have engaged with different areas…

I am incredibly honoured to have received the Alan Berkeley Milne Prize for the best undergraduate psychology thesis in the 2025-2026 academic year!

My thesis, titled “From Noise to Meaning”, explored how autistic adults understand vocoded (degraded) speech. Specifically, it examined whether prior knowledge of (previously encountered) sentence content and/or…