Past research & working experience.

How capitalisation affects sarcasm comprehension in online communication

Independent dissertation on whether capitalisation helps sarcasm comprehension. Designed and implemented an online experiment using PCIbex (JavaScript), collected 113 participants; analysis suggests capitalisation functions as a pragmatic salience marker rather than a sarcasm-specific cue.

- Talk presented at BPS Scotland Undergraduate Conference 2026 at the University of Strathclyde Glasgow, United Kingdom

- Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2026 at Saarland University, Germany

Motivation vs. personality: what drives belonging for international students?

Investigated how motivation to engage and personality (e.g. extraversion) shape international students' sense of belonging, using a Qualtrics survey and mixed methods (thematic analysis + mediation analysis). Findings suggest extraversion, not motivation, significantly predicts belongingness.

- Presented at The EAP Student: Identity, Community, and Belonging Conference, Edinburgh.

Direct vs. indirect quotation in written sarcasm comprehension

Pre-registered self-paced reading study (PCIbex) on whether sarcasm is easier to recover from direct than reported speech. Designed and implemented an online experiment using PCIbex (JavaScript), created stimuli, prepared materials, analysed data, with write-up in plan.

- Initial results suggest readers comprehend sarcasm faster in direct quotations, though the effect is not statistically significant.

Real-life café vs. virtual café noise effects on creative work performance

Compared creative-work performance between participants working in actual coffee shops or libraries and participants listening to virtual café / library white noise. Designed and implemented the study independently using Qualtrics and the Remote Associates Test; analysed data from 30 participants. Real-environment groups achieved significantly higher creative scores than virtual-noise groups.

- Presented as a poster at the ESRA Annual Conference.

Research Assistant at HollyMartin Lab

Supported an ESRC-funded multi-site project (with the University of Nottingham) on prediction in language comprehension under cognitive load, etc. Recruited Edinburgh participants, ran in-person eye-tracking experiments, and managed participant data.

- Contribution is acknowledged in the preprint at doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qphfc_v1.

Research Assistant at Neurodiversity & Mental Health Lab

Supported a collaborative project (Edinburgh / KCL / LSE) on psychological correlates of online risk and resilience in late adolescence and early adulthood. Completed ethics applications, recruited participants and collected data via SONA.

Summer Research Intern at Overcome (NGO)

Conducted a four-person narrative synthesis of internet-based interventions for PMS using PubMed and Embase. Co-managed reference lists, organised papers, and contributed to the manuscript.

Research Assistant at Key Laboratory of Modern Teaching Technology of Ministry of Education

Project on cognitive and neural mechanisms of creativity in bilinguals. Recruited and scheduled participants, trained new undergraduate research assistants, led the team through experimental procedures, and produced project documentation.

BPS Student Ambassador

Represented student membership across UK psychology programmes; supported students' enquiries and held relevant events.

BALEAP Student Ambassador

Student ambassador for BALEAP's student-facing initiatives. Helped to run the conference while not presenting.

Volunteer Organiser at AMLaP 2024

On-site organising volunteer for the international psycholinguistics conference.

Undergraduate Psychology Programme Representative

Represented psychology students across multiple cohorts by collecting student feedback, referring it to supervisors, directing students to the correct contacts, and organising events to address student concerns.

Student Advisor for Curriculum Transformation

Collaborated with the Open Learning Centre on their international foundation programme’s curriculum transformation.

- This work contributed to the EAP Student conference presentation and the BALEAP student ambassador role.

Volunteer Journal Writer at EUPM

Writing popular-science psychology articles for a general student audience.

Media Content Writer & Manager at CPSA

Wrote and managed bilingual content across the association's media channels.

Intern Writer of Psychology Related Contents

Researched and wrote for KnowYourself, China's largest psychology popular-science account across WeChat, Zhihu, and Toutiao (100,000+ reads per post), including contributions to Yuexiaotu, its research-summary platform.

Teaching Assistant, Oral English