Victoria Johnston

Master’s in Developmental and Educational Psychology, with experience in psychoeducation, research, and clinical settings, I am excited to begin my career in AI training and psychology.

I have a strong passion for child development, linguistics, and statistics. I speak three languages (English and French—native proficiency, Italian—C1 level) and have experience teaching psychoeducational content to children from diverse cultural backgrounds.

I am comfortable with digital tools, familiar with data analysis (RStudio), and motivated to learn new technologies to apply my psychological knowledge to the development of artificial intelligence.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Laurea Magistrale in Psicologia dello Sviluppo e dell'Educazione, con esperienza in psicoeducazione, ricerca e ambienti clinici. Sono entusiasta all'idea di iniziare la mia carriera nel campo della formazione sull’intelligenza artificiale e della psicologia.

Ho una forte passione per lo sviluppo infantile, la linguistica e la statistica. Parlo tre lingue ( inglese e francese- nativo, italiano - C1) e ho esperienza nell’insegnamento di contenuti psicoeducativi a bambini provenienti da diverse culture.

Sono a mio agio con strumenti digitali, ho familiarità con l’analisi dei dati (RStudio) e sono motivata ad apprendere nuove tecnologie per applicare le mie conoscenze psicologiche allo sviluppo dell’intelligenza artificiale.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

English Teacher: Preply                                                              Nov 2024 – Present

Remote / Online

Teaching English as a second language to students ranging from levels A2 to C2, inclusive of those who are just starting out, to those who would like to further improve their professional English for career-like purposes.

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE:

Clinical Internship: ReachAut SRL                                       Dec 2024 – June 2025

Vicenza, Italy

Working in the field of psychoeducation, in partnership with H-Farm: an international school in Vicenza, creating curriculums to best provide children of different age groups and cultural backgrounds with tools and strategies to help with emotion regulation, sexuality as well as mathematical and scientific abilities.

Observation of standardised diagnostic and cognitive testing on children as well as observational methods used in family therapy.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

Research Internship: Psycholinguistics                                Apr 2024 – Jul 2025 

University of Padova, Italy

Research project on linguistic pattern recognition in infants using Rule Learning stimuli. This offers me research experience and knowledge on the topic of psycholinguistics through the use of EEGS, and FNIRs as well as experience with infant patients and meta-analyses. 

Video and audio analysis (using transcription software ELAN) of a research experiment involving infants and body movements during musical stimuli with moments of silence. 

Research: Cognitive Psychology                                            Jan 2023 – Apr 2023

University of Ottawa, Canada

Research replication project: “Capacity and duration of iconic memory from partial reporting of brief stimuli: A replication of Sperling’s experiment (1960)” published by TQMP in October of 2023.

International Internship: Villa delle Ginestre                       Aug 2021 – Dec 2021

Naples,Italy                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Multiple research projects using Augmented Psychology, such as Virtual Reality (VR) and robotics through a rehabilitation centre for diverse-abled children and adults.

• Research project 1 focused on using VR technologies to enhances one’s well-being through immersive meditation. We brought these technologies to the streets of Naples for people to benefit from this experience.
• Research project 2 focused on using program “MyHero” on Virtual Reality as a treatment method for children with ADHD. Using digital as well as paper-and-pencil versions of the “Trail making Test” with numbers from 1 – 25.

Masters of Developmental and Educational Psychology                                                                           2023 - 2025

University of Padova, Italy

Honours Bachelor of Psychology                                                                                                                  2020 - 2023

University of Ottawa, Canada

Study Abroad Experience:                                                                                                           

John Cabot University- Rome, Italy                                                                                                                 2022 – 2023

Sant ’Anna Institute- Sorrento, Italy                                                                                                                 2021 – 2022

Certificate in Pre-Health Sciences                                                                                                                2018 – 2019

Algonquin College- Ottawa, Canada