Student Life

A research project looking at how children with Asperger syndrome regulate their emotions is one of more than 20 from Plymouth University to receive funding through a global education initiative.

Post-doctoral psychology student Belen Lopez Perez will be funded to look at the link between empathy and emotion regulation thanks to the Santander Universities Scholarship programme, which...

From a sustainable grass roots project in South East Asia to working with psychiatric patients in Sri Lanka, more than a dozen students at Plymouth University have been offered life-changing opportunities through an awards fund.

Thirteen undergraduates have been chosen to receive this year’s Roland Levinsky Memorial Fund, which means they can use up to £1,500 to undertake personal...

A group of 12 Plymouth students got to spend the day with staff at one of Plymouth’s biggest motor dealerships, Vospers. The family run business spent time helping the students learn all about the motor industry as part of city’s Skills Aid Plymouth scheme.

Skills Aid Plymouth (SAP) was launched earlier this year to give some of Plymouth’s young people extra support. The students got...

Stefania Guiu, a second year Nutrition, Exercise and Health student from the School of Biomedical and Healthcare Sciences at Plymouth University, has received a highly commended prize from a prestigious essay-writing award.

Stefania received her award from the Henry Kitchener Prize 2015, for her essay “How has the modern diet contributed to the increase in mental ill-health?” Her...