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'''Anna Pavlina Charalambous''' has been with FWC since 2007. In 2006, after having completed her MSc degree she came to FWC as a visiting scientist from KMRC ([http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/ Knowledge Media Research Center]). During her 3-months visit to Cyprus together with her colleague [[Julia Wahl]] she worked on the [[Educational Hypermedia]] scientific project, e.g. preparation of theoretical background, coordination of translations, management of graphic designers, coordination of audio recordings.
'''Anna Pavlina Charalambous''' has joined FWC in September 2013. In 2006, after having completed her MSc degree she came to FWC as a visiting scientist from KMRC ([http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/ Knowledge Media Research Center]). During her 3-months visit to Cyprus together with her colleague [[Julia Wahl]] she worked on the [[Educational Hypermedia]] scientific project, e.g. preparation of theoretical background, coordination of translations, management of graphic designers, coordination of audio recordings.
Tatjana returned to FWC in February 2007 as the co-coordinator of the UNDP-funded project [[Civil Society Dialogue]], the coordinator of the research-based [[Educational Hypermedia]] project as well as a team member of the research project [[Mental Attributes Profiling System|MAPS]]. Between 2007 and 2009, she coordinated the 1001 Action of the Anna Lindh Foundation [[Dialogue through Sports: Play for Peace]] plus worked on several EU-funded projects related to the Internet: [[CyberEthics]], [[EU Kids Online]], [[SteLLLa]]. From 2009 on, she coordinated the EU-funded project [[MobLang]] besides working on newly funded projects such as [[SteLLLa2.0]], [[CARDIAC]], [[IdentifEYE: Children, Data & Emerging Identities|IdentifEYE]], [[eCom4s2p]]. Throughout the years, Tatjana has been involved in writing grant applications for the organization.
Pavlina returned to FWC in February 2007 as the co-coordinator of the UNDP-funded project [[Civil Society Dialogue]], the coordinator of the research-based [[Educational Hypermedia]] project as well as a team member of the research project [[Mental Attributes Profiling System|MAPS]]. Between 2007 and 2009, she coordinated the 1001 Action of the Anna Lindh Foundation [[Dialogue through Sports: Play for Peace]] plus worked on several EU-funded projects related to the Internet: [[CyberEthics]], [[EU Kids Online]], [[SteLLLa]]. From 2009 on, she coordinated the EU-funded project [[MobLang]] besides working on newly funded projects such as [[SteLLLa2.0]], [[CARDIAC]], [[IdentifEYE: Children, Data & Emerging Identities|IdentifEYE]], [[eCom4s2p]]. Throughout the years, Tatjana has been involved in writing grant applications for the organization.


==Biography==
==Biography==
Pavlina (PhD in Sensory and Cognitive Neuroscience, MSc in Psychological Research Methods, BSc in Psychology) is a psychologist who has gained teaching and research experience through her studies in the United Kingdom. After obtaining a Departmental Scholarship she has conducted her PhD research on how personality affects attention to emotional and natural scenes and whether personality can be recognised through the facial structure.
Pavlina (PhD in Sensory and Cognitive Neuroscience, MSc in Psychological Research Methods, BSc in Psychology) is a psychologist who has gained teaching and research experience through her studies in the United Kingdom. After obtaining a Departmental Scholarship she has conducted her PhD research on how personality affects attention to emotional and natural scenes and whether personality can be recognised through the facial structure.


==Trained Facilitator & Mediator==
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Tatjana is a trained Facilitator for the [[Structured Dialogic Design Process]] and has conducted co-laboratories using the SDD Process at a wide spectrum of topics ranging from peace reconciliation over possible risks to a project as well as technology transfer in accessible and assistive ICT products and services to cooperation between civil society and local authorities in many projects including [[Civil Society Dialogue]], [[CyberEthics]], [[MobLang]], [[CARDIAC]] and [[MeDevNet]].
<br>Tatjana is also a trained ''mediator'' enabling parties to a conflict to solve their conflict based on a win-win-solution. Moreover, she is in the process of being trained in ''NVC'' ([http://www.cnvc.org/ Non Violent Communication]).
'''List of SDDs facilitated and co-facilitated'''
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! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" align="left"| Type
! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" align="left"| Location
! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" align="left"| Participants
! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" align="left"| Project
! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" align="left"| Triggering Question
! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" align="left"| Title of SDDP Role(s)
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|2007/03/10-11
|Design
|Platres, Cyprus
|9 GCs & 12 TCs
|[[Civil Society Dialogue]]
|What goals, if achieved, would contribute significantly to bridging the gap between the two communities?
|Recorder, Workshop Coordinator, Report Writer
|-
|2007/07/03
|Design
|Lefkosia, Cyprus
|10 GCs & 11 TCs
|[[Civil Society Dialogue]]
|With the aim of economic integration, what are the benefits (opportunities) for Cyprus of free movement of goods and services within Cyprus and the EU?
|CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Workshop Coordinator, Report Writer
|-
|2007/07/10
|Diagnosis
|Lefkosa, Cyprus
|10 GCs & 11 TCs
|[[Civil Society Dialogue]]
|With the aim of economic integration; what are the obstacles including perceived threats in achieving free movement of goods and services within Cyprus and the EU?
|CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Workshop Coordinator, Report Writer
|-
|2007/07/27
|Action
|Nicosia (Fulbright Center), Cyprus
|10 GCs & 11 TCs
|[[Civil Society Dialogue]]
|With the aim of economic integration; what actions should be taken to overcome the obstacles and to reap the benefits in achieving free movement of goods and services?
|CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Workshop Coordinator, Report Writer
|-
|2007/09/17-19
|Diagnosis
|Limassol, Cyprus
|26 European country representatives
|[[Cyberethics: Cyprus Safer Internet Center|CyberEthics]]
|What are obstacles that prevent our current network of EU safer Internet Nodes from being optimal?
|Facilitator, CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Report Writer
|-
|2007/09/17-19
|Design
|Limassol, Cyprus
|26 European country representatives
|[[Cyberethics: Cyprus Safer Internet Center|CyberEthics]]
|What are descriptors of an ideal collaboration model between the Nodes and educators?
|Facilitator, CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Report Writer
|-
|2007/09/17-19
|Action
|Limassol, Cyprus
|26 European country representatives
|[[Cyberethics: Cyprus Safer Internet Center|CyberEthics]]
|What initiatives or actions can Nodes take in order to encourage the mobile industry to take desired actions?
|Facilitator, CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Report Writer
|-
|2007/11/10 & 20007/11/17
|Design
|Famagusta & Larnaka, Cyprus
|10 GCs & 11 TCs
|[[Civil Society Dialogue]]
|What are descriptors of an ideal model of Famagusta/Varosha, a place of interaction, communication and cooperation of Greek and Turkish Cypriot Famagustians to serve as an example for a future united Cyprus and to act as a catalyst for solving the Cyprus problem?
|CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Workshop Coordinator, Report Writer
|-
|2007/11/17 & 2007/12/04
|Diagnosis
|Larnaka & Nicosia (Fulbright Center), Cyprus
|8 GCs & 10 TCs
|[[Civil Society Dialogue]]
|What are obstacles that prevent us from achieving the ideal model of Famagusta/ Varosha?
|CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Workshop Coordinator, Report Writer
|-
|2007/12/03 & 2007/12/05
|Diagnosis
|Nicosia, Cyprus
|7 GCs & 12 TCs
|[[New Media Landscape Now!]]
|What factors inhibit the development and practice of effective journalistic ethics in Cyprus?
|CogniScope Operator, Recorder
|-
|2007/12/06
|Action
|Brussels, Belgium
|26 European country representatives
|[[Cyberethics: Cyprus Safer Internet Center|CyberEthics]]
|What actions can the current network of EU Safer Internet nodes take in order to reach the ideal and efficient network?
|Facilitator, CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Report Writer
|-
|2007/12/08
|Action
|Nicosia (Fulbright Center), Cyprus
|7 GCs & 8 TCs
|[[Civil Society Dialogue]]
|What are action options, which if we adopt and implement, we will overcome the obstacles and achieve the ideal image of Famagusta/Varosha?
|CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Workshop Coordinator, Report Writer
|-|CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Workshop Coordinator, Report Writer
|-
|2008/06/17
|Diagnosis
|Famagusta, Cyprus
|10 GCs & 10 TCs
|[[Civil Society Dialogue]]
|What are the obstacles that prevent us/Cypriots' Voice from reaching our ideal organisation and our objectives of the declaration and to fulfill our vision?
|Facilitator, CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Workshop Coordinator
|-
|2008/06/18
|Action
|Famagusta, Cyprus
|10 GCs & 10 TCs
|[[Civil Society Dialogue]]
|What specific action plan / action tools could the organisation / Cypriot's Voice adopt in order to overcome the diagnosed obstacles to fulfill its vision?
|Facilitator, CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Workshop Coordinator
|-
|2008/03/17-18
|Diagnosis
|Nicosia, Cyprus
|Representatives of Youth Organizations from 12 EU countries
|[[UCYVROK -- Uniting for Citizenship and Participation: Youth promoting Vulnerable Groups’ Rights, Opportunities and Knowledge]]
|What are the challenges faced within the European youth environment with respect to cultural diversity, discrimination and social exclusion, as well as active participation of less privileged youth?
|CogniScope Operator, Recorder
|-
|2008/05/10
|Design
|Nicosia (Fulbright Center), Cyprus
|13 members of PeacePlayers International: 5 GCs & 5 TCs & 3 internationals
|[[Dialogue through Play: Play for Peace]]
|How do you envision your team helping your community?
|Facilitator, CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Workshop Coordinator
|-
|2010/05/04
|Diagnosis
|San Sebastian, Basque Country
|Representatives of the MobLang consortium
|[[Intercultural Dialogue & Linguistic Diversity via MobLang|MobLang]]
|What are the obstacles that might prevent potential end-users for using Moblang?
|CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Report Writer
|-
|2010/10/28-30
|Design
|Pafos, Cyprus
|20 experts from 14 countries
|[[CARDIAC]]
|What mechanisms would ensure successful technology transfer in accessible and assistive ICT products and services?
|Facilitator, CogniScope Operator, Recorder
|-
|2011/03/10
|Diagnosis
|Nicosia, Cyprus
|Representatives of Non Governmental Development Organizations and Local Authorities
|[[Capacity and Synergy building among NGDOs and LAs in Greece, Cyprus and Malta for development|MeDevNet]]
|What obstacles prevent cooperation between Civil Society & Local Authorities in Cyprus towards achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)?
|Facilitator, CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Report Writer
|-
|2011/03/22-24
|Diagnosis
|St Julian, Malta
|16 Representatives of Non Governmental Development Organizations and Local Authorities
|[[Capacity and Synergy building among NGDOs and LAs in Greece, Cyprus and Malta for development|MeDevNet]]
|What obstacles prevent cooperation between Civil Society & Local Authorities in Malta towards achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)?
|Facilitator, CogniScope Operator, Recorder, Report Writer
|}
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==Presentations & Conferences ==
==Presentations & Conferences ==

Revision as of 07:41, 23 September 2013


Anna Pavlina Charalambous
Anna Pavlina Charalambous
With FWC since September 2013
Title Project Coordinator & Research Associate
Key Project(s) Civil Society Dialogue
Educational Hypermedia
MAPS
EU Kids Online
SteLLLa
MobLang
CARDIAC
IdentifEYE
Degree(s) BSc, MSc, PhD
Filed(s) of study Psychology (major): Research Methods in Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical and Social Psychology, Cognition and Emotion, Cognitive Therapies, Personality, Attention and Attention Training, Education.
University(ies) University of Kent, UK
Nottingham University, UK
University of Essex, UK
Specialization(s) Project Management
SDD Facilitation
Mediation
Notable Achievements Departmental Scholarship



Anna Pavlina Charalambous has joined FWC in September 2013. In 2006, after having completed her MSc degree she came to FWC as a visiting scientist from KMRC (Knowledge Media Research Center). During her 3-months visit to Cyprus together with her colleague Julia Wahl she worked on the Educational Hypermedia scientific project, e.g. preparation of theoretical background, coordination of translations, management of graphic designers, coordination of audio recordings. Pavlina returned to FWC in February 2007 as the co-coordinator of the UNDP-funded project Civil Society Dialogue, the coordinator of the research-based Educational Hypermedia project as well as a team member of the research project MAPS. Between 2007 and 2009, she coordinated the 1001 Action of the Anna Lindh Foundation Dialogue through Sports: Play for Peace plus worked on several EU-funded projects related to the Internet: CyberEthics, EU Kids Online, SteLLLa. From 2009 on, she coordinated the EU-funded project MobLang besides working on newly funded projects such as SteLLLa2.0, CARDIAC, IdentifEYE, eCom4s2p. Throughout the years, Tatjana has been involved in writing grant applications for the organization.

Biography

Pavlina (PhD in Sensory and Cognitive Neuroscience, MSc in Psychological Research Methods, BSc in Psychology) is a psychologist who has gained teaching and research experience through her studies in the United Kingdom. After obtaining a Departmental Scholarship she has conducted her PhD research on how personality affects attention to emotional and natural scenes and whether personality can be recognised through the facial structure.


Presentations & Conferences

Presentations:
- 2012 (February).University of Essex. Departmental Talk: Can we predict how anxious someone is by their facial structure?
-2011 (May). University of Essex. Postgraduate Conference presentation: Prolonged viewing of emotional scenes reveals attention biases
- 2010 (May). University of Essex. Postgraduate Conference presentation: The time course of attentional bias to negative pictures in anxiety
-2008 (November). Nottingham University. Presentation for the training course “Presentation skills for Researchers”: Anxiety and the Attentional bias.
- 2008 (October). Nottingham University.Presentation for the Module “Psychological Research in Context (Dissertation)”: Attention and Anxiety Disorders.
-2007 (November). University of Kent. Presentation for the Module “Cognition and Emotion”: Implicit and Explicit Memory Bias in Anxiety.

Conferences and Awards:
- 2012 (August). Geneva, Switzerland. European Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT Conference). Talk: Understanding the nature of attention biases to emotional information.
- 2011 (September). Boston, USA. Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR conference). Poster: The time course of eye-gaze towards affective stimuli over intervals of up to 12 seconds. Travel Award received by SPR organization
- 2011 (July). Bangor, Wales. PsyPaG Conference. Talk: Individual differences and the attention bias to the face and body.
- 2011 (January). Ghent, Belgium. Expert Meeting on Emotional Attention. Poster: Prolonged viewing of emotional scenes reveals attention biases in anxiety. Grindley Grant received by the Experimental Psychological Society (EPS).
- 2010 (July). Sheffield, United Kingdom. PsyPaG conference. Talk: The time course of attentional bias to negative pictures.


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