Oliver Bazeley has recently completed an MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews. The year (September 2025 - September 2026) was spent learning to gather, analyse and report psychological data, and he specialised in object-based priming in order to inform his studio practice.

His dissertation (Object-Based Priming and the Perceived Trustworthiness of Unfamiliar Faces: A Test of Home and Work Primes), tested whether incidental exposure to everyday objects influences interpersonal judgements, specifically the trustworthiness attributed to unfamiliar faces. The result was null and the study is reported as inconclusive. He intends to continue the work, with the longer aim of building an index of which categories of object bear on which interpersonal judgements, a resource he has not found established in the existing psychological literature. He also plans to build data-gathering methods into future exhibitions, so that the exhibition itself generates material for subsequent research.