Harriet was awarded a First Class Degree in Applied Psychology from Heriot-Watt in 2009 and also won the Watt Club Medal for exceptional distinction. She is currently working as a paid RA for the lab. She is particularly interested in cognitive and developmental psychology, but she enjoys fencing and climbing in her spare time. Harriet previously won a Carnegie Scholarship and spent a summer as an undergraduate Intern at the Biobehavioral Family Studies Center at Harvard Medical School (USA) where she worked under the direction of Prof Karlen Lyons-Ruth.