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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…

I am honoured to have received the Alan B. Milne Prize for the highest-rated psychology bachelor’s thesis at the University of Aberdeen, the Henry Prize for achieving the top course grades among psychology students, and to be currently nominated for an undergraduate award from the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS). I…

I’m incredibly honoured to receive the School of Psychology’s Anderson Prize for the best performing Level 3 Psychology student in the 2024–25 academic year. This award means a great deal to me, especially as it reflects the dedication and growth I’ve experienced throughout my degree so far.

One of the…

Dr Eva Rubínová and Thomas Alexander from the School of Psychology recently completed the Principles of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PLTHE) course run by the University’s Centre for Academic Development. Eva teaches classes on L4 Investigative Interviewing (Forensic Psychology) and L2 Applications of Research in Individual Differences, in…

Since Davina McColl put the subject of menopause firmly on the map, it has been great to see and hear how this has progressed to being a much less taboo subject. Have you, however, thought about the impact that menopause symptoms have on women (including transgender and non-binary*) in their…