Dr Eva Tzschaschel is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University, where she teaches across the psychology curriculum with a particular focus on first-year experience and online learning. As an Education and Leadership academic, Eva brings both a passion for teaching and an active research agenda to her role.
Eva's research focuses on two areas: the social perception of body posture, exploring how observers extract social information from the way people hold and move their bodies, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Published in Royal Society Open Science, this work also informs her supervision of honours students. Within SoTL, Eva's interests include first-year transition, inclusive teaching, curriculum design, online and distance education, student wellbeing and success, and the integration of Indigenous knowledges into psychology curricula.
Before entering academia, Eva's career spanned several distinct chapters, including public relations and marketing communications across organisations of all sizes, independent consulting, and eventually running her own body therapy and wellness clinic. It was this hands-on work with the body that sparked her scientific curiosity about how bodies are perceived and what social information they convey, a question that became the foundation of her doctoral research.

Dr Eva Tzschaschel is a passionate and innovative educator committed to psychology education across face-to-face, online, and intensive learning contexts. Her teaching philosophy centres on critical thinking, student wellbeing and success, and making psychological science meaningful and accessible to all students.

Roles and Responsibilities
She co-convenes the first-year psychology units PSYU/X1101 and PSYU/X1102 at Macquarie University, and has contributed to PSYU/X1100, a foundations unit, and STAX1103, a first-year statistics unit for Open Universities Australia (OUA) students. She served as Course Co-Director for the Bachelor of Psychology through OUA, overseeing a program of 668 enrolled students. Eva has also convened PSYU3336, a third-year personality disorders unit delivered as a five-week intensive, and supervises honours students in her research area.

Achievements and Recognition
Eva holds a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and has received a Students' Choice Teaching Award. She has pioneered curriculum innovation by integrating Indigenous Kin & Country frameworks into the psychology curriculum and has implemented peer leader programs and flipped-classroom pedagogy in her units.

Dr Eva Tzschaschel has two distinct areas of research interest: the social perception of body posture and movement, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Her SoTL interests include:

• First-year transition and student success in higher education
• Inclusive teaching practices
• Online and distance education
• Curriculum design and innovation
• Integration of Indigenous knowledges in psychology education