what is you PHD about ? – Psychology Zone

Sophie Callis answered on 18 Mar 2022:

I didn’t do a PhD, but I did a PsychD which is also a 3-year postgraduate course. Half my time was spent working in mental health services, and the other half was at university, split between learning about being a Clinical Psychologist and doing my own piece of research.

My research looked at people with type 2 diabetes, whether they drank alcohol, and how well they looked after their diabetes (e.g. ate healthy foods, exercised, took medication and tested their blood sugars).

Hannah Howman answered on 18 Mar 2022:

My PhD is looking into why people engage in cyberaggression behaviours. I’m interested to know whether it’s something to do with their personalities, their motivations, or whether they just see these behaviours as being acceptable to engage in.

I’ve also been lucky and had to chance to be involved in other research during my PhD. My supervisor has let me help out with research into emojis which has also been really fun!

Keri Wong answered on 18 Mar 2022:

My PhD was on how young children (ageds 8 – 14 years) develop trust in others and how this affects their mental health. I went into 15 schools in the UK and another 18 schools in Hong Kong to survey children on their thoughts. I found that majority of the children were trusting and had good mental health. However, a small minority of children who were distrustful of others – feared that others were threatening – where more likely to report poorer mental health such as higher levels of anxiety, aggressive behavious, lower self esteem. This finding was true of UK and Hong Kong children – which makes the finding more reliable! These results have implications on how school teachers and parents may wish to support young children in schools so they are become more mentally healthy.

Michelle Newman answered on 18 Mar 2022:

My PhD looks at how we assess the long term cognitive impact of a concussion – so whether things like memory or concentration have been effected. Currently the assessment tools we have are not sensitive to pick this up fully, which can impact how well we can put together a rehab programme for them.

Jamie Chan answered on 18 Mar 2022:

My PhD looks at social class and body image. I want to understand how women with different social class backgrounds understand, think and feel about their appearance and how that affects the things they do (eg. dieting, putting on make-up, etc.).

Larissa Ferguson answered on 18 Mar 2022:

My PhD work looked at how memories are able to last for long periods of time. When we learn something new, our brain cells change in how they communicate with one another, and this change in communication is what stores the memory. I was looking at how these changes are maintained over time by investigating the molecules within individual brain cells. Since it’s hard to do this in humans, I looked at the brain cells of sea slugs!

Reece Bush-Evans answered on 18 Mar 2022:

My PhD was based on narcissism in team settings. So I looked at narcissistic individuals (those who think they are better than others, who are super confident in their abilities etc.) in escape room settings, as well as within organisations. It was super exciting research.

Laura Joyner answered on 18 Mar 2022:

I’m looking at why people interact with false/misleading content on social media. My research falls into ‘social cognitive’, so I’m mostly interested in how social contexts influence how we process information (and whether that impacts behaviour)

Currently, I do online studies to try and capture how likely someone would be to interact with a piece of content (usually a meme) and ask questions to help try and understand how they make evaluations about it. I also find out other things about them, such as who they would vote for in an election or what their beliefs are about an issue. I’ve carried out 3 of my 5 studies so far!

Fay Sweeting answered on 18 Mar 2022:

My PhD looked at sexual misconduct in police officers – specifically how they behaved prior to being caught and who did they target

Nadine Mirza answered on 22 Mar 2022:

For my PhD I’m looking into why people from different cultures and different background languages struggle to get help for dementia and have such a troublesome time getting into the services that exist for dementia. I mostly focus on South Asians in the UK but I also look at other groups too since a lof of different groups face the same issues. I find out about the struggles and problems people face by interviewing them mostly.

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