Stephanie is an education-focussed senior lecturer and the Director of Teaching for Psychology's undergraduate programs at UNSW. She is program director of the School's Graduate Certificate in Child Development and Graduate Diploma of Advanced Psychology, in addition to convening and teaching a range of psychology courses. Historically, her research interests involved examination of the neurochemical underpinnings of learned behaviours relevant to the study of addiction and other motivational and emotional disorders. More recently, her research has moved to encompass the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, focussing on emotional and motivational correlates of academic performance in online vs. face-to-face learning contexts.