By Dr Charlotte Rae Conference season is upon us, and this year lots of us will be attending virtual meetings instead of travelling to conferences in person. Although many of us are missing seeing our colleagues in person, online conferences…
Blog Archives
Junior Research Associate in the ChatLab
By Madeleine Weaver This summer I took part in the Junior Research Associates (JRA) scheme in the Children and Technology Lab (Chatlab) http://www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/chatlab/ with Professor Nicola Yuill. The JRA scheme is an 8 week programme designed for students who are considering post…
Tagged with: Autism, Conference, JRA, Research, Undergrad
Posted in Research, Undergraduate research
Posted in Research, Undergraduate research
Annual Kindness Symposium at Sussex 2018
By Jessica Cotney A few weeks ago, the University of Sussex hosted the third annual Sussex Kindness Symposium in order to celebrate World Kindness Day. The event was organised by Prof. Robin Banerjee from the School of Psychology, funded by…
Grouping by attainment in schools: can psychological interventions help turbo-charge poor students’ performance?
By Ian Hadden Last month I attended the impressive – and buzzy – sell-out researchED 2018 annual conference in London. The highlight for me was a fascinating piece of research presented by Becky Francis and Jeremy Hodgen of the UCL Institute…
Tagged with: Conference, Education, PhD students, Research, Social Psychology
Posted in PhD research, Research
Posted in PhD research, Research
An appetite for bringing research into practice at ResearchED
By Ian Hadden ResearchED is getting big. A ‘grassroots movement’ started by a former teacher, it aims to bridge the gap between research and practice in education. Since I’m researching how simple, well-timed social psychological interventions can help kids from low-income…
2017 ATSiP Conference: Technicians, VR and Qualtrics
By Martha Casey At the end of June I attended the ATSiP conference at UCD in Dublin. ATSiP stands for the Association of Technical Staff in Psychology, and is an organisation made up of people like me from universities across…
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
Feeling like an Academic Celebrity: Talks, workshops, and constant sunshine for a month in Australia
By Yasin Koc There are times I spent seven days a week in my office, working until late hours, trying to meet my self-induced deadlines to write another paper or do some more data analysis. Although I always say I…
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
Most popular posts coming soon