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Winning the Postgraduate Prize for Outreach for my contributions to Illusion Night—part of the European Conference of Visual Perception (ECVP)—is truly an honour. ECVP was a tremendous success, not only for the School of Psychology and the 51cg, but for the city of Aberdeen as a whole.

Illusion…

I was never one to excel academically. At school, during my undergraduate degree, even in the workplace, I always felt that my dyslexia held me back (I’m dyslexic, by the by). However, my MSc in Psychological Studies taught me that I am capable. My perception of my dyslexia then changed;…