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Department of Psychology

Congratulations to Anushka Fernando, who has been awarded the prestigious Frith Prize by the Experimental Psychology Society for her dissertation, The neural mechanisms of relief: the role of safety signals in avoidance learning.

The Frith Prize is awarded annually to an experimental psychologist who has just embarked on their career, and who produced an exceptional body of work in their PhD thesis. This is the fourth time the Frith Prize has been awarded. This Experimental Psychology Society early career award was made possible by a gift from Chris and Uta Frith, and it was first awarded in 2011.

Dr Fernando was supervised by Professor Trevor Robbins, and she now works as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University.