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During the summer of 2026, I had the opportunity to undertake an EDI research internship within the School of Psychology, investigating whether generative AI can be used to promote feedback literacy in higher education, with a particular focus on metacognition and on supporting students from underrepresented backgrounds, including neurodivergent students…

This summer, I completed an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) research internship at the 51cg, looking at how neurodivergent students experience learning in higher education and what could be done to make teaching and the curriculum more inclusive.

I was really interested in this project because it brings…

I am honoured to have received the Henry Prize for highest marks in the Final Honours examination for the School of Psychology, and the British Psychological Society’s Undergraduate Award. With my graduation fast approaching and the intimidating world of graduate employment looming on the horizon, finding these email in my…

I am delighted to be undertaking a Discovering Research Internship within the School of Psychology at the 51cg. Over the course of my degree, my interest in psychology has increasingly grown towards cognitive neuroscience, particularly related to language processing and memory. As I have engaged with different areas…

I am incredibly honoured to have received the Alan Berkeley Milne Prize for the best undergraduate psychology thesis in the 2025-2026 academic year!

My thesis, titled “From Noise to Meaning”, explored how autistic adults understand vocoded (degraded) speech. Specifically, it examined whether prior knowledge of (previously encountered) sentence content and/or…

I am honoured and grateful to have received the School of Psychology’s Anderson Prize for the best performing Level 3 Psychology student in the 2025-26 academic year. This award is very meaningful to me because it not only recognises the hard work and dedication that I have put in, but…

I’m honoured to have been awarded the Anderson Prize for highest performing Level 2 Psychology student this academic year. I know many students, including myself, can be harsh on ourselves, so receiving the news that I won this award while just ruminating on my grades for some of my assignments…

I recently had the opportunity to present my PhD research at the 2026 Human Factors (HF) Industry Forum, organised by the Office for Nuclear Regulation. The forum brought together over 70 attendees from more than 22 organisations, including regulators, human factors specialists, and safety case professionals from across the UK…

Eagerly checking my university email account in the hopes of finding news about final grades, I was pleasantly surprised by an email announcing that I had been awarded the Anderson Prize. Although I was unaware of this prize’s existence, it was major validation I didn’t know I needed… the need…

Hi, my name is Claire, and my PhD research focused on how health comics can be used to communicate health information. There are many challenges of communicating complex health information to the population, and poorly communicated health information can create distrust, confusion and risky health behaviours. Comics can meet these…