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Agata Dymarska

My CV

  • Education:

    I went to school in Poland, but when I was 16 I started studying in English (IB programme), and then I came to the UK for university.

  • Qualifications:

    I have an International Baccalaureate Diploma in 6 subjects (Polish, English, French, maths, biology, psychology)
    I have an undergraduate degree in Psychology, Masters degree in Language Sciences,  a PhD in Cognitive Psychology.

  • Work History:

    I’ve worked as a shelver in the university library – my favourite job ever! I’ve also worked in stadium bars at rugby matches, served sandwiches in Subway and invigilated GCSE exams – all the things you do as a student to make some money.

  • About Me:

    I’m Agata, I’m a cognitive psychology researcher.

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    I live in Lancaster and love to hike in the Lake District, read books and play the piano. I grew up in Poland, and moved to the UK after finishing school. Last year I traveled outside of Europe for the first time – to Canada, and then India, and now I can’t wait to see more of the world.

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    We learn about the world in a lot of ways. Some of the ones I consider important are:

    experience with language (talking to others, reading, watching films etc.)

    sensory information (such as seeing objects, touching different surfaces and textures, hearing your dog bark or the plane take off, tasting or smelling food)

    motor information (lifting, throwing or kicking a ball, moving your head to see things behind you, using your arms to embrace a loved one).

    In my research, I look at which types of experience influence, for example, our memory, or our ability to read and understand words, and in what way. For example, are things easier to remember when we have strong sensory experience with it (e.g. food items which we frequently see, touch, taste and smell), compared to something that we don’t experience first hand (such as planets)? And are things that we can see easier to remember than things we can hear? How can we understand words for things can’t see and touch, such as “justice” or “knowledge”?

  • My Typical Day:

    Every day is a bit different, but my typical tasks would be running experiments, attending meetings and lectures with other researchers and reading articles to learn more about my field and come up with new experiments. After work, I like to go climbing or do yoga at home. In the evening I call my family or read a book.

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    I’m not an early bird, and I always start with a cup of coffee when I come to the office (even if that means my desk at home). I analyse data from different experiments for example where participants have to remember words, or distinguish between real words, like “apple” and non-words, like “fomler”

    Sometimes I meet with other students and researchers to discuss their experiments, which can also be fun – in my lab we build lego models and take pictures of animals to prepare the experiment. We also meet to discuss new scientific articles or learn new things about statistics or computer programmes together.

    I try to stay active and go to the gym regularly, but when a new episode of Grey’s Anatomy is on, nothing can stop me from rushing home to catch it 🙂

     

  • My Interview

    • What did you want to be after you left school?

      I wanted to be an actress or a teacher

      What's your favourite food?

      Chocolate!

      Tell us a joke.

       Why did the student eat his homework?Because his teacher told him it was a piece of cake!

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