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            <title><![CDATA[International Student's Journey on MSc Psychological Studies at the 黑料网]]></title>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The School of Psychology at the 黑料网 has launched a new student story video featuring MSc Psychological Studies with Mental Health student, Neetika Sharma, who shares her inspiring journey from India to Scotland and the experiences that helped shape her postgraduate studies.
Moving overseas to pursue further education is a life-changing decision, and for Neetika, travelling from India to Aberdeen marked the beginning of an exciting new chapter. Arriving during a period of severe winter disruption, she faced the challenges that many international students encounter when starting life in a new country. However, through the support of staff,&#8230;]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Shaobo Xu was awarded the Anderson Prize for Best Overall Performance on the MSc Psychological Studies programme and is the joint winner of the Elizabeth Fraser Prize for Outstanding Thesis. Below, Shaobo shares some of their experiences of studying on the MSc Psychological Studues programme.
How would you describe your experience of the programme?
I would describe my experience in two main ways. First, the support was excellent. The lecturers explained the material in detail, and the course resources were extensive and easy to access. This made it comfortable both to follow the course and to do extra reading on&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Elizabeth Fraser Prize for MSc Psychological Studies 2025/26: Nicola Robb]]></title>
            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The research I conducted for my MSc Psychological Studies with Organisational Psychology thesis was the icing on the cake of a fantastic year with the School of Psychology. I have enjoyed being part of a brilliant cohort of Masters students with their impressive cognitive plasticity. Having access to the latest thinking and research in psychology, and hearing directly from leading researchers in the field in lectures and through participating in and supporting various studies, has exceeded my expectations of what the year would bring. A fun bonus has been taking part in public events the school held as part of&#8230;]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I am deeply honoured to receive the Best Overall MSc Performance award for the MSc Psychology of Mental Health 2025-2026 programme. This award represents not only the hard work and commitment I put in, but also the encouragement and support I received from my lecturers, friends, and family.
I am very grateful to my supervisor, Dr. Amy Irwin, for believing in me and for playing a central role in helping shape my dissertation, titled "Staff Wellbeing in Special Education: A Mixed-Methods Study of Resilience, Workplace Challenges, Coping and Organisational Support." This project grew out of Aberdeen's partnerships with community organisations,&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[John Shepherd Prize and Anderson Prize Winner MRes Psychology 2025/26: Caroline Riley]]></title>
            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I am honoured to have received the School of Psychology&rsquo;s Anderson Prize for the highest performing student in MRes and the John Shepherd Prize for the joint outstanding MRes thesis in the 2025-26 academic year.
Having completed my undergraduate degree at Aberdeen, I wanted to continue the research I had started in my final year with my supervisor, Dr. Agnieszka Konopka, while developing my understanding of the research process and becoming a more confident and independent researcher. The MRes was very hands-on course, with small-group teaching throughout the year, which gave me plenty of opportunities to engage with staff and&#8230;]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 and those for whom English is an additional language.
I came to this project as someone who has sat on the receiving end of feedback that left me none the wiser about what to actually do next. That experience, which is far from unique, made the research feel personal. Feedback&#8230;]]></description>
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            <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 黑料网, 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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            <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 黑料网, 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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            <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 黑料网. 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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            <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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            <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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