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I’m so grateful and honored to receive The British Psychological Society Undergraduate Award for achieving the highest overall score in a BPS accredited degree program.

I was (and still am) stunned to hear I’ve received this award, especially knowing how hard my peers have worked over the years. This achievement…

When I first moved from Germany to Aberdeen, it felt impossible to navigate living alone in a new country, making friends, and studying at university with ADHD. However, with time and my best friend by my side, everything started to fall into place. I tried new things, like joining the…

I am probably meant to play it cool on receiving an award such as the Henry Prize, but I am absolutely blown away. When I returned to education four years ago, after a break of nearly thirty years, I could never have imagined receiving such an honour or imagined what…

I am incredibly honoured to receive the Alan Berkeley Milne Prize for the best undergraduate psychology thesis. First and foremost, I wish to acknowledge Dr Alan Milne and his achievements and offer my gratitude to his family. My thesis focused on an associative learning phenomenon using the Stroop and flanker…

“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…

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.…