Posts by Yvonne Teoh
Life of an Intern – Active Vision Research
March 22, 2013
As one of the first year students, I was delighted to be given such a wonderful opportunity to join the 3-months summer internship on campus. The research – a collaboration between UNMC and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) – that I was working on, aimed to explore the anticipatory eye movements of children with clinical nystagmus …
Life of an Intern – Human Resources
March 15, 2013
Every year, a Careers Fair is held at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, where dozens of corporations offer internship and job opportunities to the students. In 2012, I dropped off a copy of my resume at the IBM booth, and was fortunate enough to receive a call from them roughly three weeks into the …
The Life of a Researcher – Data Collection
March 12, 2013
If you ask psychology students about the challenges they face when conducting a research, the most common response you will hear is probably data collection or the recruitment of participants. As the focus of my research is on older adults (individuals aged above 60), it was a relief, and surprise to learn that these adults …
A Degree in Psychology Should be Everyone’s No. 1 Choice.
March 5, 2013
For me, I think the obvious answer is yes, yes it is. I must admit when I meet (non-psychology) people for the first time I hate telling them what course I teach at University. I always say straight away no, I can’t read your mind, just relax! I do sometimes wish I could read people’s …