Key details
Areas of expertise
- Cognitive Psychology
- Executive function
- Psychological assessment
- Statistics
- Cognitive neuropsychology
Available to supervise research students
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About Jessica Scarfo
Dr Jessica Scarfo is a psychology lecturer and research academic with the College of Health & Biomedicine and the Institute for Health & Sport.
Jessica is passionate about teaching and has extensive lecturing and convening experience in the discipline of psychology across the undergraduate program. Jessica also supervises honours and co-supervises PhD students in completing their research theses in psychology. Jessica has completed her Bachelor of Psychological Studies (Honours) and her PhD in the areas of cognition and psychological assessment, both degrees here at VU. She is proud to be a successful product of the place where she now works, and feels this gives her a valuable insight into the experience of VU students.
Before pursuing her academic career Jessica worked in aged care, which has fostered her passion to further enhance her studies within the field of psychology.
Qualifications
- PhD Psychology, Victoria University, Australia, 2019
Research funding for the past 5 years
Supervision of research students at VU
Available to supervise research students
Not available for media queries
Other supervision of research students
Teaching activities & experience
Jessica is the unit convenor of the following units APP2013 Psychology 2a and APS2040 Quantitative Social Research Methods.
