Resources
Grants and Bursaries – show me the money!!!
Free Software – to make life easier!!!
Guides and Tutorials
Grants and Bursaries
- PsyPAG is a national organisation for all psychology postgraduates based at UK Institutions.
- Travel Grants, Research grants, Workshop grants
- Plus you get to write articles for the PsyPAG quarterly
- Download their handy postgraduate survival guide!
- Experimental Psychology Society
- Small Grants, Study Visit Grants, Research Workshops, Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Workshops, Grindley Grant, Undergraduate Research Bursary, EPS Carers Grant.
- Guarantors of Brain
- Travel Grants, fellowships, meeting/conference support
- Applied Vision Association - Awards for Vision Scientists
- Including the amazing Tom Troscianko Memorial Award
- and the AVA Travel Award which I proudly recieved in May 2018 to fund my VSS Conference
Software
- Roboform – Excellent password manager and form filler.
- free with a university / school/ college address for the first year, and half-price as long as you have an academic address after that
- Mendeley – Free reference and document manager
- Overleaf – Web-based LaTeX editor
- (a bit of a learning curve, but sooooo much better than word)
- Authorea –for collaborative writing
- Brave Browser – Blocks all ads!!!
Useful guides and tutorials
- VPixx Online Classroom And Library
- Dr Peter Scarfe’s Psychophysics Toolbox Tutorials
- Student Developer Pack from githubEducation - This amazing developer pack has excellent offers for students.. including:
- GitHub : unlimited private repositories for students!!! (normally $7/month)
- NameCheap : a free .me website
- Unreal Engine: Free complete suite for PC, console, mobile, web and VR
- Github guides