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            <title><![CDATA[Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Internship: Esme Harrison]]></title>
            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 together a lot of the areas I am interested in, particularly psychology, education and supporting people with different learning needs. University teaching can be quite different depending on the course, lecturer or type of class, and something that works really well for one student might create a barrier for someone&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Henry Prize and BPS Undergraduate Award winner: Barbora Novotna]]></title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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&rsquo;s Undergraduate Award. With my graduation fast approaching and the intimidating world of graduate employment looming on the horizon, finding these email in my inbox was a pleasant reprieve.
I have enjoyed all of my four years at 51cg, but fourth year was made special by being able to work on my own project - my thesis on the relationship between autistic traits, ADHD traits, stress and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I found&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Discovering Research Internship: Kateryna Naichenko]]></title>
            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 of psychology over the course of my degree, I have become especially interested in how language is encoded and represented in memory, and how behavioural and neuroscience methods can be combined to study these processes.
This internship will enable me to work on a cognitive neuroscience project examining the production&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Alan B Milne Prize 2025-26: Marta Brzeska]]></title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 &ldquo;From Noise to Meaning&rdquo;, explored how autistic adults understand vocoded (degraded) speech. Specifically, it examined whether prior knowledge of (previously encountered) sentence content and/or familiarity with the speaker&rsquo;s voice helps listeners make sense of unclear speech. We found that participants with higher autistic traits used prior sentence content only when listening to a familiar speaker, but did not appear to use this information when the speaker changed. In other words, autistic traits appeared to&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Level 3 Anderson Prize Winner 2025-26: Kimberlee Fernandes]]></title>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I am honoured and grateful to have received the School of Psychology&rsquo;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 it also reminds me of the importance of stopping and celebrating my efforts and achievements.
Time seems to have flown by as it feels like yesterday that I attended my first-year induction at the School of Psychology. It has so far been both extremely daunting and exciting to study Psychology&#8230;]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;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 was surprising but deeply validating and I truly appreciate that my efforts have been recognized.
I have never doubted my decision to study psychology, and my experience studying in the School of Psychology here is one reason why. I&rsquo;m an international student and have lived in many countries, attending many&#8230;]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 nuclear industry.
My presentation focused on supporting and enhancing operational decision-making in the nuclear industry, with particular attention to safety-critical decisions are made and supported in the UK nuclear industry, when unexpected situations arise that fall outside existing procedures. The research explores the role of human and organisational factors in&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Anderson Prize Winner MSc Psychological Studies: Allison Gouskos]]></title>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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&rsquo;s existence, it was major validation I didn&rsquo;t know I needed&hellip; the need for which I should probably speak with my therapist. I digress. What made this achievement all the more rewarding was the hard work and dedication I saw from so many of my peers, some of whom were also navigating a new country, culture, educational system, and/or work. In short, the&#8230;]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 healthcare challenges by engaging and catering to a diverse population with differing needs. As part of my PhD project, I wanted to create a health comic from scratch, not only to experience leading and developing a comic from the initial stages through to the launch and distribution, but also be&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Internship: Janhvi Ghotey]]></title>
            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2025, I was fortunate to be offered my first research internship within the School of Psychology. My project, which lasted six weeks, focused on exploring the impact of generative AI on underrepresented groups in higher education. This internship caught my eye immediately, as being part of an underrepresented group myself, I was eager to explore how technology could promote more inclusivity. Everyone deserves the best chance at education, yet many students face challenges in their everyday lives that can hinder their potential for success. These challenges can range from, but are not limited to, physical disabilities,&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Internship: Grace Vickers]]></title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[
I did an Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion internship with the university over the summer of 2025. My internship topic was evaluating accessibility and inclusivity in teaching materials, supervised by Dr Zeshu Shao. This is something that I&rsquo;m passionate about because,&nbsp;being neurodivergent, I understand how important it is to access equal learning opportunities which take individual differences into consideration. Furthermore, it is also important to feel represented within teaching practices.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;


My first task was to create a Content Review Checklist which I could use to review materials. I decided to focus on the Level 2 and 3 methodology courses, as methodology&#8230;]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Caitlin McKenzie, a third-year Neuroscience and Psychology student, completed a summer internship project titled &ldquo;Do Autistic Women Experience Menopause Differently?"&nbsp;Caitlin carried out this project under the supervision of Linda Engles, CPsychol (School of Psychology) and Dr Shannon Babbie (School of Education). Find out about their findings below.
Introduction
Menopause is an important and inevitable life stage for most women, transgender men and non-binary people assigned female at birth; however, until recently, there was little research looking into how autistic women experience menopause. Do they experience it differently from neurotypical women? Do they have different symptoms, or do they have more&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Anderson Prize Winner MSc Psychology 2024-2025: Qi Chen]]></title>
            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Reflections on My MSc Journey in Psychology 
I&rsquo;m deeply honoured to have won the Anderson Prize for the highest performing student in MSc Psychological Studies in the 24-25 academic year. This recognition is both humbling and deeply meaningful to me&mdash;it reflects not only personal effort, but also the incredible support, inspiration, kindness, and encouragement I&rsquo;ve received from my peers and lecturers throughout the programme. Their kindness and guidance shaped my journey in ways I&rsquo;ll always be grateful for, and I truly wouldn&rsquo;t have reached this point without their unwavering support.
Studying in the School of Psychology has been an enriching&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Internship: Skye Duncan]]></title>
            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[My EDI internship in the School of Psychology, ran from June to August 2025, and involved conducting an evaluation of Aurora: Women&rsquo;s Leadership Development Programme which has been delivered at the 51cg since 2013 with over 100 delegates having particpated. The aim of the programme is to address women&rsquo;s underrepresentation in leadership roles in higher education. This was a piece of work following on from a quantitative analysis conducted within the school in 2024 by Abigail Flores, as part of her MSc thesis project. Abigail evaluated the programme by surveying participants. The results found that participants did not&#8230;]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I feel honoured to have been awarded both the John Shepherd Prize and the Anderson Prize for the best thesis and highest performance in the MRes Psychology 2024-2025.  My thesis, "Conditioned Delusions", examined predictive processing during naturalistic reading using eye-tracking. We explored how reading behaviour changes when the text doesn&rsquo;t match expectations, and how readers balance adapting their reading with updating their beliefs. It was a challenging but incredibly rewarding project, and I couldn&rsquo;t have done it alone. I owe so much to the support and encouragement of many brilliant people.  First, thank you to my amazing supervisors: Anastasia Klimovich-Gray,&#8230;]]></description>
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