Rate My Professor Joel Howell

Dr Joel Howell serves as an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Psychology within the Curtin School of Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. He earned a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) and a Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology from Curtin University between 2012 and 2017. In his academic role, Howell delivers teaching across various psychology topics, provides guest lectures, and supervises final-year honours and postgraduate research students. His research interests include perfectionism, cognitive biases such as biased attention and interpretation, repetitive negative thinking, emotion regulation, self-compassion, eating disorders, non-suicidal self-injury, psychological wellbeing, and learning analytics in higher education. Howell collaborates on projects like ethical learning analytics and has affiliations with the Centre for Clinical Interventions, where he applies clinical psychology expertise.

Howell's publication record spans clinical and educational psychology. Key works in learning analytics include 'Give me a customizable dashboard: Personalized learning analytics dashboards in higher education' (2017, Technology, Knowledge and Learning), 'Student Attitudes toward Learning Analytics in Higher Education: “The Fitbit Version of the Learning World”' (2016, Frontiers in Psychology), 'Are We on Our Way to Becoming a “Helicopter University”? Academics’ Views on Learning Analytics' (2018, Technology, Knowledge and Learning), and 'Learning analytics messages: Impact of grade, sender, comparative information and message style on student affect and academic resilience' (2018, Computers in Human Behavior). In clinical domains, notable publications are 'Is perfectionism associated with academic burnout through repetitive negative thinking?' (2018, PeerJ), 'One factor? Two factor? Bi-factor? A psychometric evaluation of the Frost Multidimensional Scale and the Clinical Perfectionism Questionnaire' (2020, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy), 'The effects of left DLPFC tDCS on emotion regulation, biased attention, and emotional reactivity to negative content' (2020, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience), 'Modeling pathways to non-suicidal self-injury: The roles of perfectionism, negative affect, rumination and attention control' (2022, Journal of Clinical Psychology), 'Self-compassion and clinical eating disorder symptoms: a systematic review' (2023), and 'Understanding eating disorder symptoms in adolescents: testing a cognitive-behavioural model of eating disorders in a community sample' (2024). He has been recognized with a teaching excellence and innovation award from the Faculty of Health Sciences.