Rate My Professor Anna Praskova

Dr. Anna Praskova is an Adjunct Lecturer and Teaching Associate in the Faculty of Health at Southern Cross University (SCU), located at the Gold Coast campus. She completed her Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) at Griffith University in 2010 and obtained her PhD in career developmental psychology from Griffith University in 2014. Throughout her career, she has held positions such as Principal Research Fellow at Metro North Mental Health, Career Development Practitioner and Lecturer at both SCU and the University of Southern Queensland, and Lecturer of Psychology at SCU Gold Coast, where she played a key role in establishing the psychology degree program in 2019. Presently, while serving in her adjunct capacity at SCU, she is also a Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator at the Australian College of Applied Professions in Sydney.

Her academic interests center on career development, wellbeing across the lifespan, scale development, employability, goal setting, career calling, meaningful work, and the self-regulation of motivation. Praskova utilizes quantitative methodologies, including conditional process analysis and structural equation modeling. She has supervised psychology honours and postgraduate projects in career development and mental health, and is registered as a Higher Degree by Research (HDR) supervisor at SCU. Her teaching experience spans units like career development across the lifespan, psychological assessment, research methods, and statistics, offered in face-to-face, online, and blended modes. Key publications include "The development and initial validation of a career calling scale for emerging adults" (2015), "Testing a calling model of psychological career success in Australian young adults: A longitudinal study" (2014), "Career calling as a personal resource moderator between environmental demands and burnout in Australian junior doctors" (2014), "The Career Distress Scale: using Rasch Measurement Theory to evaluate a brief measure of career distress" (2016), and "Parent and adolescent perceptions of adolescent career development tasks and vocational identity" (2018). Additionally, she serves as a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Career Assessment and is a full member of the Australian Psychological Society (MAPS) and the National Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (NAGCAS).