Jiesi Guo
Professor, Namibia University of Science and Technology
Introduction
Dr. Jiesi Guo is an associate professor in the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, at Australian Catholic University, which was recently ranked in Top 10 most productive institutions in educational psychology in the world. His current research focuses on (1) how multiple ecological systems on the cultural, social, motivational, and behavioural development of youth shape their major and career choices, particularly in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics); (2) the impact of student social-emotional skills on academic and life outcomes, (3) improve the effectiveness of different prevention programs to enhance children’s and adolescents’ psychological well-being. As a first author, his research outcomes have been published in leading journals in Multidiscipline (The Lancet and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A.), education (e.g., Learning and Instruction, American Educational Research Journal), psychology (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Educational Psychology), and statistical methods (e.g., Structural Equation Modelling).
