Anna Pavlina Charalambous

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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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