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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…

I am honoured and grateful to have received the School of Psychology’s Anderson Prize for the best performing Level 3 Psychology student in the 2025-26 academic year. This award is very meaningful to me because it not only recognises the hard work and dedication that I have put in, but…

I’m honoured to have been awarded the Anderson Prize for highest performing Level 2 Psychology student this academic year. I know many students, including myself, can be harsh on ourselves, so receiving the news that I won this award while just ruminating on my grades for some of my assignments…

I recently had the opportunity to present my PhD research at the 2026 Human Factors (HF) Industry Forum, organised by the Office for Nuclear Regulation. The forum brought together over 70 attendees from more than 22 organisations, including regulators, human factors specialists, and safety case professionals from across the UK…

Eagerly checking my university email account in the hopes of finding news about final grades, I was pleasantly surprised by an email announcing that I had been awarded the Anderson Prize. Although I was unaware of this prize’s existence, it was major validation I didn’t know I needed… the need…

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…