Rate My Professor Jenny Batchelor

Jenny Batchelor, B.B.Sc.(Hons), M.Sc., PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychological Sciences within the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University. She serves as the Director of the Postgraduate Programs in Clinical Neuropsychology and is a registered psychologist with endorsement in Clinical Neuropsychology from the Psychology Board of Australia. Batchelor obtained her Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Honours) from La Trobe University in 1982, Master of Clinical Neuropsychology from the University of Melbourne in 1986, and PhD from Macquarie University in 1997, supervised by Emeritus Professor Max Coltheart. Her professional career encompasses roles as Clinical Neuropsychologist at Westmead Hospital from 1985 to 1995, Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University from 1995 to 2008, Senior Lecturer since 2009, and Director of Batchelor & Associates Medico-Legal Neuropsychological Consultancy.

Batchelor's academic interests center on neuropsychological assessment and outcomes following traumatic brain injury, with emphasis on litigating samples, medico-legal issues, mild traumatic brain injury, and duration of post-traumatic amnesia as a predictor of recovery. She investigates sports-related concussion, including reliability of neurocognitive measures and outcomes across severities and frequencies; efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation in alcohol and substance use disorders; delirium; and cognitive contributions to risky driving behaviour in young populations. She actively supervises PhD, Masters, Honours, and third-year students on related topics and convenes or lectures in key Master of Clinical Neuropsychology units such as Neuropsychological Disorders, Neuropsychological Practice, Advanced Neuropsychological Assessment II, Developmental Neuropsychology, and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation and Intervention, as well as undergraduate units PSY344 Neuropsychology in Clinical Practice and PSYC499 The Scientist Practitioner Model. Select publications comprise 'Neuropsychological deficits in disordered screen-use behaviours: a systematic review and meta-analysis' (2022), 'Diffusion tensor imaging in sport-related concussion: a systematic review' (2021), and 'Rates of false positive outcomes on the A-WPTAS picture items in a sample of non-concussed athletes' (2021). With 3,297 citations and an h-index of 31, her contributions have advanced clinical neuropsychology and rehabilitation practices. She participates in the Concussion and Repetitive Head Trauma Research Group.