Student stories

The thing I enjoy the most about my PhD is getting to really dive deeply into topics that interest me. I love having the freedom to choose what areas I research, and that there are always people around interested in discussing new discoveries with me.

From speaking with graduates, I knew Surrey had great facilities, support systems, and a super friendly and welcoming School of Psychology.

My research investigates the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of an online, two-week compassionate imagery intervention for veterinarian mental health.

My project looks at inequality in higher education, specifically how students interpret university rankings and how these can favour the support of a hierarchical society.

My research project uses quantitative and qualitative research methods to investigate the construct of weight bias, exploring whether national obesity prevalence rates, personal exposure to obesity and weight normalisation, can predict weight bias, and much more.

I’m researching the interplay between attachment dimensions (the processes used to assess attachment in children and adults) and nostalgia, with the aim of using nostalgia as a mechanism to boost attachment security.