Amendment: helping out at a specific stage of the research also helps. I helped out briefly in a project with recruitment, and that was great insight.

The CURE plan should span at least both semesters, if not a year or two. It's the long-term big projects that helped me learn the best and most. Seeing a "real" project from inception to dissemination.

Basically, I'm trying to say that from personal experience, I think it takes multiple projects with varying levels of "guardrails", training in ethics, data management and GDPR, and involvement with "real" research for students to build their confidence in a CURE project worth its salt.

And now my dissertation, where I get more of a guided experience of a long-term project.

That experience helped me get an internship doing a community engagement project (lots of interviews & focus groups), where I was the PI and was doing research in the "wild", without any guardrails like the University provides.

From there, my involvement with a project funded by a Staff & Student Partnership Scheme, where I was encouraged to muck-in with the ethics process, Qualtrics, etc. (the mentorship was invaluable with building my confidence as a novice researcher), was the next step.

Oooh interesting
Reminds me of the Quantitative Report lab run by @bartlettje.bsky.social. We did a replication study as a class. It was an interesting way to look at existing open-access data, and critically examine the methods, and what direction to take. A nice soft launch into "real" research

This is the 2026 version of the mug :D (Yes, I've joined C25K again)
I had to take a break from running, and let me tell you, IT IS SO GOOD TO BE BACK

This is the 2025 mug the C25K runners got gifted last year, to mark the halfway point in the training programme :)

To clarify, this is an old photo of the Kingfisher, before the graffiti.

They also graffitied over the black and white spongebob next to the Kingfisher :(

Here are some of my other favourite murals that I've managed to take a photo of.

Here's the Kingfisher in question.

Ahaha yeah
Recruitment is an entire beast in itself!
Me and my other fellow comrades (read: also 4th year students) have been trying to help each other out exactly because of this

Thank you also so much!! 😊
Out of curiosity, what is a CURE plan? Google isn't giving me any insight

Thank you!! 🙏

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Level 1 Psychology students at University of Glasgow (to earn 2 Credits on SONA):
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Everyone else:
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I can feel myself unwind; By Chance has such a relaxing and comfortable atmosphere.

The process of "what am I supposed to be doing?" -> "gaining confidence as you gain traction in the task" ->"feeling of stifling claustrophobia as you near the deadline" -> "mad MasterChef dash of final touches to the dish" -> "relieved celebration of a job done"