Research Project

Jessica Amos
Current Appointments
Postdoctoral Research FellowKey Research Areas
Dr Jess Amos is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Trial Manager working across several projects focused on dementia prevention and digital health promotion. She joined the Cognitive Ageing and Resilience Lab in 2019 and has contributed to multiple clinical trials focused on dementia and dementia risk reduction. In 2025, she completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales. Her PhD was embedded within the NeuRA-supported MyCOACH trial, which explored the benefits of a digitally delivered intervention to support behaviour change older adults with subjective cognitive decline or mild cognitive impairment. Her research focused on goal setting and examined patterns of engagement and the impact of both self-directed and practitioner-supported approaches in promoting lifestyle changes linked to dementia risk reduction.
Jess currently manages the CogCoach-Health dementia risk reduction trial, applying her expertise in digital intervention development and evaluation. She is particularly interested in how technology can be used to support older adults to initiate and sustain healthy lifestyle changes through tools that are inclusive, scalable, and grounded in behavioral science.
Publications
2024, 09 Jan
A Scoping Survey to Inform Design of Digital Dementia Risk Reduction Interventions for Adults Concerned about their Cognitive Health
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.3233/ADR-230160
2023 Oct
MyCOACH (COnnected Advice for Cognitive Health): a digitally delivered multidomain intervention for cognitive decline and risk of dementia in adults with mild cognitive impairment or subjective cognitive decline–study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075015
2022 Aug
Social Cognition and Social Functioning in MCI and Dementia in an Epidemiological Sample
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355617721000898
2020 Dec
Self-management and HeAlth Promotion in Early-stage dementia with e-learning for carers (SHAPE): study protocol for a multi-centre randomised controlled trial
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09590-9