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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.…

During the summer, I had the amazing opportunity to work on a two-month research internship at the School of Psychology as part oftheir commitments towards the Athena Swan Charter, which promotes the values of inclusion and equality in universities all over the country. The study I conducted, with the…

This summer I had the opportunity to complete an 8-week internship as part of the School of Psychology’s Silver Athena Swan commitments, supervised by Dr Clare Sutherland. The motivation behind my internship was to investigate the shift in psychology from a majority male field in its first hundred years to…

I feel incredibly honoured to have been awarded the Alan Berkeley Milne Memorial Prize for the best undergraduate psychology thesis. This news came as quite the surprise after seeing all the fantastic work my peers have completed over the year. To say I feel grateful to have been honoured with…

After spontaneously deciding to study Psychology in Aberdeen last summer, it was a huge surprise to have received the Anderson Prize. I am honoured and grateful to the School of Psychology for this award. 

Starting university in second year was nerve-wracking, to say the least. I felt that…

The transition from secondary education to university is always a learning curve; however, the welcoming staff at Aberdeen made this change much easier for me. As an international student from Czech Republic, I especially appreciated the diverse environment of the university — and as a painfully awkward 20 years…

My start in Aberdeen was unconventional – I became one of the first and few students who were allowed direct entry to the second year of the programme. I transferred from a Welsh to a Scottish institution, which took some adjusting, both academically and personally. However, I had already overcome…

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…