Dr. Sandy Jung is a Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean, Research, at MacEwan University .  She is an active researcher and educator who had published research on sexual and violent offenders, risk assessment, and criminal justice decision-making.  In addition to teaching introductory psychology and 2nd-year level social and personality psychology courses, she regularly teaches abnormal psychology, forensic psychology, and senior courses in clinical psychology and on forensic psychology topics. She actively provides supervision of honours students and individual study research by psychology majors at MacEwan. She was a recipient of the MacEwan Distinguished Teaching Award (see profile) and the MacEwan Distinguished Research Award (see profile), and was a Board of Governor Research Chair from 2018 to 2020 (see profile). More recently, she was awarded the CAFA Distinguished Academic Award.

Prior to her current academic position, she was employed as a forensic psychologist at an outpatient forensic clinic. Her clinical practice has been in the field of assessment, treatment, and risk management of violent and sexual offenders, where she has often provided expert testimony on cases related to sexual offending and criminal responsibility. She continues to practice in the field of forensic psychology and to be involved in program development and evaluation.  

In addition to supervision, teaching, and consulting/training work, she maintains an active research program and has numerous peer-reviewed publications in the field of forensic psychology, often co-authored with her students.  Her research has focused on the prevention of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and risk assessment. 

She is an Editorial Board Member for Sexual Offending: Theory, Research, and Prevention, Psychology of Violence, and Canadian Psychology.