Jocelyn Brewer | Teacher and Psychologist, Creator of Digital Nutrition
Cyberpsychology Researcher

Jocelyn is a Sydney-based registered psychologist with a special interest in the psychology of technology
and staying human in a digital age.

Jocelyn has 16 years’ experience in public education both as a teacher of high school social sciences and
as a School Counsellor/psychologist. Her 2009 psychology thesis explored the impacts of increasing
access to Internet enabled laptops on a cohort of grade 10 boys and the emerging area of Problematic
Internet Use (PIU), colloquially known as ‘Internet Addiction’.

Jocelyn created Digital Nutrition™ – a framework to guide parents and technology users understand the
virtual nutritional values of the online media content we consume via apps and games on tablets and
screen technology. Digital Nutrition™ was awarded the NSW Premier’s Teacher Scholarship for Health
Education in 2014, and Jocelyn travelled to the USA in 2015 to further explore the issues relating to
healthy technology habits and digital citizenship.

Jocelyn is a part of the Cyberpsychology Research Group at Sydney University, where she completing her
Masters of Applied Science (Cyberpsychology) exploring the role of self-control and parenting factors in
the prevention of Problematic Smartphone Use. This exploratory research surveyed over 500 Year 7
students in metropolitan Sydney and will be completed in 2021.