Anna Praskova

Anna Praskova is a Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator at the Australian College of Applied Professions (ACAP) and an Adjunct Lecturer at Southern Cross University (SCU). She holds a PhD in career developmental psychology from Griffith University.

• Education:
  • Bachelor of Psychology (Honors), Griffith University (2010)
  • PhD in Career Developmental Psychology, Griffith University (2014)

Her research focuses on career development, wellbeing, meaningful work, and career calling, integrating goal-setting, social cognitive, and self-regulation theories. She specializes in psychometric scale development and quantitative analysis using conditional process and structural equation modeling.

Her recent publications emphasize career distress models, cross-cultural scale validation, and wellbeing impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has co-authored studies on mental health services planning and metabolic monitoring in homeless populations.

• Professional Affiliations:
  • Consulting Editor, Journal of Career Assessment
  • Full member, Australian Psychological Society (MAPS)
  • Professional member, National Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (NAGCAS)
• Teaching:
  • Specializes in career development across the lifespan, psychological assessment, research methods, and statistics at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
  • Experienced in face-to-face, online, and blended learning environments.

She supervises psychology honours and postgraduate research projects related to career development and mental health, and has contributed significantly to scale development and psychometric validation in her field.