She received her Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln under the guidance of Dr. John A. Glover and Dr. Roger H. Bruning. Dr. Corkill's research interests include working memory, intelligence, interference, and metacognition. Dr. Corkill is the Associate Editor of Educational Psychology Review and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Educational Psychology and Learning and Individual Differences. Her work has been published in the above journals as well as in other distinguished journals such as Acta Psychologica.