Posts in "Staff Stories"

“Can you turn right here? No, the other right.”

“Helen, I’m not sure you meant foot biases in this paper about vegetarian food.”

“Do you realise you’ve spelled lecturer wrong in your email signature?”

“Errr, people are meant to re-sit exams, not resist them.”

These – among many other comments…

As part of our series of posts in celebration of School of Psychology staff for International Women’s Day, we want to shine a spotlight on our brilliant Lecturer and Race Equality Officer Dr Eva Rubinova.

Eva joined the School of Psychology in 2022. Research in her lab (https://portfolio.evarubinova.com/) is focused…

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…

Towards the end of last year, I thought I was losing my mind. I was experiencing high levels of anxiety, and I was forgetting words (mid-lecture is not a good look!). I just felt unable to perform at work to the best of my ability which in turn knocked my…

Elizabeth D. Fraser

We commemorate the career of Elizabeth Fraser, known as Betty (1920–1995), the first female Head of the School of Psychology and the first female professor at Aberdeen University. She held the Anderson Chair of Psychology for twenty years.

Fraser had a remarkable career. She grew up in…

I know that most people are by now craving a bit of normality. Being able to do the things they loved doing before March, meeting up with people, going out for meals, travelling. And of course I do too – looking at photos from last year makes…

Educators around the world are thinking in earnest about online teaching. A global pedagogical experiment is about to begin. Except that there’s no control group. Everyone is doing it. And we’re all asking the same questions: how do we engage students if they’re not in our classroom? What is the…

I moved to Aberdeen in August so this my first spring here. When I imagined living in Scotland in spring, I thought about the wild beauty of the Grampian and Cairngorm mountains, the crisp sunshine of May, and the stunning, rolling Aberdeenshire countryside. I never imagined that, less than a…

I'm a frustrated swimmer. Suddenly, after 10 years, my daily training came to an abrupt halt 32 days ago when the pool shut. I'm counting the days and soon I will be counting the weeks, with a sad sigh of longing.

Of course whenever one complains about these things, there…

Brits are born with a special gene that enables them to form orderly queues. They are absolutely expert at it. On my former commute home (when “the commute” was still a thing) I would often walk past people waiting for the bus. No matter how many people there were, you…