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PhD candidate Callum Train GMBPsS

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, 500 credits) and psychology (MSc 2019-2022, 360 credits) with graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (GMBPsS) gained in 2023. Further to a sabbatical in 2024/25, Callum is undertaking a PhD in Clinical and Health Psychology & competing for PhD funding via UK sources such as the annual Scottish Graduate School of Social Science SGSSS Student-led Open Competitions

Research interests of the PhD candidate:

Related undergraduate work in a neuroscience, psychology and philosophy of mind dissertation (which applied a brand new insight from Callum 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 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."

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