Jennifer Day

Background

Dr Jennifer Day is a Learning Facilitator in Psychology at Torrens University Australia. Her expertise spans agency and control, stress and trauma, peripersonal and interpersonal space, mindfulness-based stress reduction, multisensory processing and the use of AI in education. Jennifer teaches subjects at the intersection of psychology and neuroscience, including Brain and Behaviour and Biological and Learning Psychology. Her research interests include wellbeing, mindfulness, stress, threat and space representation, as well as emerging applications of AI in psychology education. Her previous research with Frontline Yoga examined how mindfulness-based stress reduction and yoga can support frontline workers managing stress and trauma. Jennifer’s doctoral research investigated how threat alters the representation of space around the body and how a sense of agency can mitigate these effects. She holds a PhD and a Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours I).