By Kate Arnold The VIVA… two syllables that fill any PhD student with a whole cocktail of emotions. This was the recipe for mine: Ingredients: 1/2 teaspoon of excitement Juice of 3-5 years of tears A generous dash of imposter…
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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…
My first year as a psychology student!
When I was asked to write this blog for the School of Psychology initially I was overwhelmed; not because I didn’t have anything to say, but because I probably have too much. In the short 9 months that I have…
Horses read human facial expressions of emotion – Sussex Research
By Amy Smith Undeniably, horses have funny faces. Long nose, eyes on the sides of the head, wiggly ears…morphologically they look very different to humans, yet it turns out they are pretty good at looking across the species barrier to…
Dan Goodwin: Junior Research Assistant
Before applying for the JRA award I knew that becoming a researcher in Psychology was what I wanted to do, but deciding what I wanted to study seemed almost impossible given the sheer number of options available. When I saw…
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My Placement at West Sussex Eating Disorders Service
By Amy Howes As soon as I saw that the School of Psychology was offering clinical placement years I knew that it was something I would be interested in. Despite having to hand in assignments most weeks during term two…
Tagged with: Eating disorders, Employability, Life after psychology, Placements, Student Experience, Transferable skills, Undergrad
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“What I wish I knew before starting my PG course…”
Zoe Hopkins: “I did the Experimental Psychology (EP) MSc, since my undergraduate degree was not in psychology. My year as an EP MSc student was very demanding – I never felt like I’d manage all the work I needed to…
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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My placement year at GlaxoSmithKline
By Lauren Maddock I did not begin my degree with the intention to complete a Placement year but decided during my second year that it would be a great development opportunity whilst also trialling a career area I was…
Tagged with: Employability, Human resources, Life after psychology, Placements, Student Experience, Transferable skills, Undergrad
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Clara Wilson’s JRA experience
Even before I was aware of the JRA scheme I was keen to help out on projects done by the Mammal Vocal Communication and Cognition Research Group at Sussex. The work I was most interested in concerned the cognitive abilities…
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