Rate My Professor Stephanie Jensen

Stephanie Jensen is a Teaching Fellow in the Office of the Dean (DSM), Faculty of Medicine - Dunedin, Health Sciences Division, University of Otago. She received the Medical School Teaching Staff Award for Excellence in Administration at the Advanced Learning in Medicine (ALM) Teaching Awards ceremony on 8 August 2024 at the Barnett Lecture Theatre, Dunedin campus.

Stephanie Leigh Jensen completed a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Otago in 2024. Her thesis, 'Behavioural Sensitivity to Reward and Punishment in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder', was undertaken in the Department of Psychology. As a PhD student, she contributed to studies on behavioral sensitivity in ADHD, including collaborations with Brent Alsop, Paula Sowerby, Cara Moffat, and Gail Tripp. She presented joint research at the Eunethydis ADHD conference. Key publications are 'Behavioral sensitivity to changing reinforcement contingencies in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder' by Alsop, B., Sowerby, R., Jensen, S., Moffat, C., and Tripp, G., published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry in 2016, and 'Evidence for increased behavioral control by punishment in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder' by Furukawa, E., Bado, P., Jensen, S., and Tripp, G., published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry in 2017.