Chloe Fielding

We’ve reached the end of the PGR Conference! We’ve had a great day of hearing about the amazing research being conducted by our PGRs! Thank you to all of our presenters and attendees, and everyone who helped with organising the conference! @durhampsych.bsky.social

The winner of Best Long Talk is Emerald Grimshaw! @emeraldgrimshaw.bsky.social

The winner of Best Short Talk is Fran Cavanagh!

The winner of Best Poster is Artie Graham!

And an excellent talk to finish the conference from Emerald Grimshaw, who discussed how the multisensory and interactive capabilities of educational VR affect its success @durhampsych.bsky.social

A great first talk of the final session by Aliya Edwards, who presented their work on using a new method to assess concurrent pitch and rhythm imagery @durhampsych.bsky.social

We’ve reached our last session of the day, where we’ll be hearing from Emerald and Aliya about their fascinating research! @durhampsych.bsky.social

We’ll now be hearing from our keynote speaker, Professor Victoria Simms, who has joined us from Ulster University. Vic’s talk will discuss the importance of public engagement for researchers! @durhampsych.bsky.social

We’re now moving onto the second of our poster sessions! We’ve got excellent posters from Lucy Edgar, Eleonora Apolo de Azevedo, Xiangyu Deng, Xueqing Li, Wenjing Zheng, Rui Su, and Halo Gao

Oscar Sill gave an amazing talk to end our short talk session, where he discussed the development of accurate own-body maps from childhood to adulthood! @durhampsych.bsky.social

Another great talk in our short talk session from Rai Bari, who presented his work on feature vs object-based attentional templates during feature, conjunction, and object search @durhampsych.bsky.social

Fran Cavanagh gave a fascinating talk on using machine learning to analyse large online text datasets @durhampsych.bsky.social

An insightful talk from Gloria Roden-Lui on the views of service users, staff, and carers on the use of restraint in secure psychiatric services @durhampsych.bsky.social

Giulia D’Avino gave a great talk on the effects of tiredness on word learning during infancy @durhampsych.bsky.social

An interesting talk from James Mcleod to start our short talk session! He presented his research on the perspectives of autistic adults about the factors influencing their PE access and engagement during secondary school @durhampsych.bsky.social

We’re now moving onto our short talk session, where we’ll be hearing from James, Giulia, Gloria, Fran, Rai, and Oscar about their research! @durhampsych.bsky.social

Now we have our first poster session! We have amazing posters from Artie Graham, Jack Thompson, Sarah White, Yuewen Wu, Maria Ciocan, Liang Wu, Charlie Greenall, and Mohsen Khoddami @durhampsych.bsky.social

We ended the first long talk session with another great talk from Courtney Turner, who presented her research on the stability of individual working memory capacity. @durhampsych.bsky.social

Bhakti gave a great first talk of the day, discussing the pathways to constructive and destructive behavioural responses. @durhampsych.bsky.social

We are starting the day with our first long talk session, where we’ll be hearing from Bhakti and Courtney @durhampsych.bsky.social

Today is the 19th Annual Psychology PGR Conference! Stay tuned for updates throughout the day, where we will hear from PGRs about their exciting research! We are also welcoming Professor Victoria Simms from Ulster University, who will be giving a keynote talk on public engagement for researchers.