"14008140"; candidate's name redacted for required anonymity while competing for PhD funding from the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science Student-led Open Competitions

A 'generation X' mature student with a background of 20+ years in global client relations (retail, HNW & corporate), the PhD candidate recently gained degrees via the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) in philosophy, politics & economics (PPE (HONS) 1st Class Distinction 2014-2018) and psychology (MSc 2019-2022) with graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (GMBPsS) gained in 2023. Following a sabbatical, 14008140 is undertaking a PhD in Clinical and Health Psychology & competing for PhD funding via the annual Scottish Graduate School of Social Science SGSSS Student-led Open Competitions

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Related undergraduate work in a neuroscience, psychology and philosophy of mind dissertation (which applied a brand new insight from 14008140 into how mental imagery factors into our decision making processes) proved it's veracity with a unique visual solution to "The Gettier Problem" that gained a 1st class distinction and which has not since been refuted; published on Academia.edu in 2018, the work also garnered acknowledgment from the likes of Oxford luminary Anthony Grayling CBE

Related postgraduate work in psychology, linguistics and pragmatics (inspired by Wittgenstein's 'picture theory of language') focused on types of perception and specifically "spatial deixis". Identified by UHI as "highly ambitious", the research interviewed foreign language teachers across Scotland and sought to find out how the psychological component of spatial deixis manifests in the classroom/teaching space–compared with how the same psychological component manifests as experience-taking aka perspective-taking during full immersion contexts associated with CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning) and computer gaming. Awarded GMBPsS as a result (graduate membership of the British Psychological Society), UHI described this MSc dissertation as a fascinating area of research whose author "is to be highly commended for identifying a unique question with real practical implications for language teaching." [watch this space! surveillez cet espace! behalten sie diesen bereich im auge!](references available)