By Tamara Albaja How did I discover my inner passion for working with children? Two words, ‘Social Detectives’. What is Social Detectives? Social Detectives is a structured yet flexible curriculum and teaching process that focuses on social skills development using…
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Surviving or Thriving? Lifelong mental health in children with chronic physical illness
By Ekin Secinti Chronic physical illness affects large numbers of children and families. Worldwide, 1 in 5 children has a chronic physical illness, including arthritis, asthma, cancer, chronic renal failure, congenital heart disease, cystic fibrosis, type-1 diabetes, and epilepsy. With…
King Lab goes to Westminster
By Dr Sarah King Last Tuesday was Posters in Parliament, a day organised by the British Conference of Undergraduate Research, to allow students to visit Westminster and present their research to Members of Parliament. Robert Tempelaar, who spent the summer working…
A Student Voice
Watch the second episode of the psychology vlog to find out how Psychology faculty listen to the Student Voice. Prof Robin Banerjee (Deputy Head of School), Alison Pike (Director of Teaching and Learning), and Dr Richard De Visser (Director of Student…
Tagged with: Academic Advising, Evaluations, Module, Student Experience, Undergrad, Vlog
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Life as a postdoc – 10 things to consider
By Dr Christiane Oedekoven I am currently working as a postdoc in Chris Bird’s Episodic Memory Lab after doing my first postdoc in Tuebingen, in a more clinical setting. Of course, every lab is different, and obviously not everyone…
Thesis Boot Camp
By Molly Berenhaus Right before the holiday season, I decided to attend the doctoral school’s Thesis Boot Camp and was pleasantly surprised by how much I accomplished and learned. One limitation was that the writing workshops mostly catered to the…
Final Year Student Retreat in January 2017
We are organising a retreat for our final year students between 23rd and 25th January 2017 with all sort of activities. The retreat is free of charge and includes 2 days and 1 night in the lovely YHA South Downs near…
Tagged with: Academic Advising, Academic Writing, Employability, Life after psychology, Student Experience, Third Year, Transferable skills, Undergrad
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JRA Memories
By George Britton Once I found out that I got the JRA award, I found myself explaining what the scheme is, and what I was going to do, to countless people. The reality of the project is only sinking in…
Tagged with: Academic Writing, JRA, Research, Student Experience, Transferable skills, Undergrad
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Assessment & Feedback FAQs
We start a new audiovisual section to answer some of the most frequently asked questions. The Director of Teaching and Learning of Psychology, Dr Alison Pike, and two of our undergraduate students, Leila Davis and Judith Luxmoore, explain the assessment…
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How storybook illustrations impact word learning
By Zoe Flack My research area is developmental psychology. In particular, I am investigating how different aspects of storybook reading with preschool children can help (or hinder!) word learning. Luckily, children like hearing stories, and adults enjoy reading them. But…
Tagged with: Award, Conference, PhD students, Psycholinguistics, Research, WORD Lab, word learning
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