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…

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…