Activities

Experience and competencies

6+ years experience in educational and research project management
6+ years experience in content writing, copyediting, and proofreading
In-depth knowledge and expertise in areas such as multilingualism, inclusion, localisation and translation: A BA in Languages and Contemporary European Studies (English and Spanish), MA credits in Conference Interpreting, MA and PhD in Multilingualism
Professional languages: English, Spanish (DELE: C1), Turkish & Cypriot Turkish (Native). Soon Greek (current level: B2.1)!
CELTA for teaching English as a foreign language to all learners

Publications and Research Projects

PhD Dissertation: Foreign academic researchers in the Basque Country with a focus on multilingualism: Language and intercultural competences, beliefs, and practices. Awarded: 24 February 2021. Passed with distinction. Cum Laude.
Project Coordinator of Daily Speaking Guide (2020), a self-learning tool, that has a selection of phrases useful in everyday communication, as well as grammar and exercises to facilitate the learning of Greek, Turkish, and their Cypriot varieties: https://kitap-kitapi.com/

Project Coordinator, Researcher and Co-Author of AHDR’s Policy paper on education for sustainable peace in Cyprus (2023).

Project Coordinator, Reviewer, Content and Language Editor of ‘Harmat, G., Kyritsi, T., Pashia, E., Plümer-Bardak, E., & Ulubatlı, D. (2023). A Space of Our Own: Monuments, gender and intersectional public spaces. AHDR’.

Project Coordinator, Researcher, Material Developer, and Editor of 'Charalambous, I., Ioannidou, E., Özoğul, Ö., Papadopoulou, A., & Kiourti, E., (2024). Our Multilingual World: Supplementary educational materials and teacher’s handbook for exploring past and present multilingualism in Cyprus. AHDR’.

Project Coordinator, Reviewer, Material Developer, and Editor of Days that Matter: A teacher’s resource to support social and emotional development in primary education (2024).

Translator of AHDR’s Policy Paper: Sustainable Peace in Cyprus. Available here.

Content and Language Editor of A Space of Our Own: Monuments, gender and intersectional public spaces (2023).
Reviewer, Editor, and Translation Editor of Our Multilingual World: Supplementary educational materials and teacher’s handbook for exploring past and present multilingualism in Cyprus (2024). Available here in English.
Translator of Days that Matter: A teacher’s resource to support social and emotional development in primary education (2024). Available here in Turkish.
Translator of People of Peace Education (2020). Available here in Turkish.
Poetry and literary translator.

“Foreign researchers’ multilingual practices and cultural experiences in urban academic workplaces”, to be presented at Languages in the City symposium, 7-8 April 2025, Utrecht.
”Learning from foreign researchers’ multilingualism in higher education”, presented at 2024 CEL/ELC Conference: Multilingualism in Higher Education: Current Perspectives and Emergent Issues, 27-28 November 2024, Cluj-Napoca.
“Pedagogical strategies for the promotion of multilingualism and inclusive education” presented at the 5th International Conference: “Literacy and Contemporary Society: Creativity, Equity, Social Action”, 5 December 2023, Nicosia.

“Representation of Conflict” presented at Nico Carpentier’s Mirror of Conflict 2 exhibition event. Speakers: Özge Özoğul, Aysu Arsoy, Takis Hadjidimitriou, Esra Plümer Bardak and Sami Özuslu. Home for Cooperation, Nicosia, 15 April 2022. Photos from the exhibition opening and seminar here: http://nicocarpentier.net/icontroversies2/opening.html
“Gender and Peace in intersectional public spaces” presented at book launch and seminar: Power and Memory, 22 November 2021, Nicosia.
Guest speaker at “Youth-inclusive peace processes” session of UN Torino Forum for Sustaining Peace - “Women and Youth at the Frontlines” on September 7-11 2020, online.
“Linking the Women Peace and Security (WPS) agenda with the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) agenda through education” presented at Strengthening Women’s Participation in Peace Processes: What roles and responsibilities for states? 3-4 December 2019, Rome, Italy, organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy and UN Women.
Speaker at the First International Symposium on Youth Participation in Peace Processes, 4–6 March 2019, Helsinki, Finland, organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland and the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth (OSGEY).