Ever since I was young I have been completely fascinated by human behaviour. It wasn’t until I got older that I realised there was a subject that I could study which encompassed everything I found interesting: that subject was psychology. I went on to complete A-level psychology and chose to study psychology with sociology at Nottingham Trent University.
When lectures started after freshers’ week, there was one thing I couldn’t help but notice: hardly anyone in the lecture hall looked like me. The prejudice that I feel as a black female studying psychology is not from the lecturers, it’s from my peers. When I walk into a lecture room I can feel it. It’s a feeling that I can’t really describe because it is insidious and covert but I can say is that it is often conveyed through micro-aggression.
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