Stories

Networking is an important part of your university time, be it making new connections through friendships, school projects, volunteering, internships, or going to networking events where you get to connect with what potentially could be a future employer. Networking can open your eyes to new career pathways you…

The poster session is a great experience to go through (even if it does not feel like it when you’re slaving away trying to make your poster just right) and gives you invaluable feedback on your experiment.

Between stressing about the thesis itself and presenting it to a member of…

Like most psychology students, I really wanted to do an internship over the summer. Unlike perhaps a lot of students, I wasn’t looking to do research. My goal for the summer was to figure out what I wanted to do after graduation. I have always wanted to be in on…

If I had to describe my experience in Valencia with one word, it would be hectic. Not hectic in the way it is used in the western culture, but hectic like my South African friend taught me: An amazing, unforgettable, unique and extreme experience that profoundly changed something in me.…

This summer I was very lucky to be offered a summer internship in the Customer Insight and User Research team of HMCTS (Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service). Although I was initially surprised to be offered the role with almost no experience of how our justice system works, the research…

This year sees the fifth anniversary of the annual Psychology networking event.  This is an event which started in the Linklater rooms with 30 professionals and less than 100 students and has now grown into an event that takes over Elphinstone hall with more than 50 professionals and 200 students…