It has been a busy term for the Ingenious Bar. Our team have spent 40 hours in the recently refurbished School Office talking to students and staff alike, and we can confirm that the new armchairs are very comfy! Since…
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Tips for prospective conversion course students
By Emily Rayfield Conversion courses, such the MSc in Experimental Psychology at Sussex, are unique experiences, and in lots of ways unlike both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. This is because you are covering diverse UG modules at lightning speed. Before…
Tagged with: Academic Writing, Advice, Conversion course, Experimental Psychology, Masters, Postgrad
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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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What is the role of shared identities in the aftermath of floods?
By Evangelos Ntontis As a PhD student at the School of Psychology of Sussex University, I recently had the honour of winning the 2016 PhD poster conference. Of course winning is accompanied with writing a blog for the School’s website,…
Tagged with: Academic Writing, Award, International Student, PhD students, Poster Presentations, Research, Social Psychology, Student Experience
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My experience studying Psychology at Sussex
By Ruihan Wu For the past three years I have been studying a BSc Psychology with Cognitive Science at Sussex. For the next two years, I will be doing a master programme in the area of neurodevelopment disorders, first at…
Tagged with: Academic Advising, Academic Writing, International Student, Student Experience, Third Year, Undergrad
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Behavioural Genetics for Education
by Darya Gaysina I am a co-editor (with Yulia Kovas and Sergei Malykh) of the book ‘Behavioural Genetics for Education’, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan last month (http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137437310). This book is dedicated to the role of nature (genetics) and…
My first paper
By Jennifer Mankin This spring, my first paper on synaesthesia and language appears in an upcoming edition of Cognition. While I know that getting a paper published is always a rigorous and difficult process – as indeed it should be…
Tagged with: Academic Writing, PhD students, Postgrad, Psycholinguistics, Research, Synaesthesia
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The Bird Lab in the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting
By Christiane Oedekoven In the Episodic Memory Group (also known as the Bird lab, http://www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/memory), we are interested in how people remember events and how that is reflected in underlying brain functions. During our recent visit to the annual meeting…
Tagged with: Academic Writing, Conference, Memory, Neuroscience, PhD students, Research, Student Experience
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