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For a detailed curriculum vitae of Mrs.Deligianni click: [[Vitae/Efrosini Deligianni|Full CV]].


Ms. '''Efrosini Deligianni''' joined [[Future Worlds Center]] in September 2011, originally as an intern and between March and the summer of 2012 as member of the [[TeachMDGs]] project. During her stay as intern, she collaborated with [[Eleni Michail]] and [[Yiannis Laouris]] in drafting and securing funding for [[Reinventing democracy (YiA 1.3)]]
Ms. '''Efrosini Deligianni''' joined [[Future Worlds Center]] in September 2011, originally as an intern and between March and the summer of 2012 as member of the [[TeachMDGs]] project. During her stay as intern, she collaborated with [[Eleni Michail]] and [[Yiannis Laouris]] in drafting and securing funding for [[Reinventing democracy (YiA 1.3)]]
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==Biography==  
==Biography==  
Ms. Efrosini Deligianni has an extensive educational background on theoretical linguistics with a research interest on language change, discourse pragmatics and cognitive-linguistic processing. Her future research aspirations lie with a cognitive neuroscience of language.  
Ms. Efrosini Deligianni has an extensive educational background on theoretical linguistics with a research interest on language change, discourse pragmatics and cognitive-linguistic processing. Her future research aspirations lie with a cognitive neuroscience of language.  
She was first placed as an intern at the New Media Lab (NML) unit of FWC, which she joined with great enthousiasm since it combines the implementation of New Technologies in Language Learning, a fascinating and pioneering avenue of research, with an ultimate goal of imparting social change.  
She was first placed as an intern at the New Media Lab (NML) unit of FWC, which she joined with great enthousiasm since it combines the implementation of New Technologies in Language Learning, a fascinating and pioneering avenue of research, with an ultimate goal of imparting social change.  
She is currently involved in a Youth in Action (YiA) programme under Subaction 1.3 on Youth Democracy Projects entitled “Using democratic dialogue to reinvent democracy”. She is also a member of the TeachMDGs project team.
She is currently involved in a Youth in Action (YiA) programme under Subaction 1.3 on Youth Democracy Projects entitled “Using democratic dialogue to reinvent democracy”. She is also a member of the TeachMDGs project team.
==Education and Work Experience==
Ms. Deligianni has earned a BA in English Language and Linguistics (combined major) from Lancaster University (UK) and a European MA in Linguistics from the University of Manchester (UK) and Freie Universität (Germany). She has recently completed her PhD on Greek Historical Linguistics at Lancaster University (UK). Her work experience revolves around foreign language teaching (English; Ancient and Modern Greek) and translation (English to Modern Greek and vice versa).
==Skills, Interests and Achievements==
Due to her education and training, she possesses excellent research and writing skills, organizational and interpersonal aptitude (in the organizing committee of two postgraduate conferences in Linguistics), as well as linguistic competence in English and German.
Her general interests include dance (choreography/participation in dance performances), wine and gastronomy, black and white art photography, as well as cinema (short films and documentaries).
As a postgraduate student, she was awarded the Mont Follick Fund and an Erasmus grant from the University of Manchester.


==Publications (academic)==  
==Publications (academic)==  
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