Rate My Professor Megan Spencer-Smith

Monash University

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Psychology Education Medicine Developmental Psychology Neuropsychology Cognitive Psychology

4.6

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5.08/20/2025

Creates a collaborative learning environment.

4.05/21/2025

Always clear, concise, and insightful.

5.03/31/2025

Always goes the extra mile for students.

4.02/27/2025

Makes learning a joyful experience.

5.02/7/2025

Always patient and encouraging to students.

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Dr. Megan Spencer-Smith is a Senior Lecturer in developmental psychology at the School of Psychological Sciences and the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University. She serves as Director of Undergraduate Education (on campus) in the School of Psychological Sciences. Spencer-Smith completed her undergraduate training in psychology at the University of Queensland in 2003 and earned her PhD in child neuropsychology at the University of Melbourne in 2008 under Professors Vicki Anderson and Peter Anderson. During her doctoral studies, she held a Harold Mitchell Research Fellowship for three months at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, with Professor Maureen Dennis. Her postdoctoral career included research positions at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute from 2008 to 2011 and the University of Melbourne in 2009, followed by a Swiss National Science Foundation Visiting Fellowship at Inselspital, Bern University Hospital in 2011 with Professor Regula Everts, and a Department of Neuroscience Research Fellowship at the Karolinska Institute from 2011 to 2013 with Professor Torkel Klingberg. She established her independent research group at Monash University in 2014 and holds an Honorary Senior Research Fellow position at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute since 2011.