Honours, Awards and Scholarships
Overview
Fellowships & Professional Recognition
Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) – Advance HE, 2024- National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) – Advance HE, 2024
UKRI-ESRC INTERACT Peer Review College Member, 2023–present
COST Organisation (EU) Management Committee Member & Research Grant Evaluator, 2022–present
British Academy of Management (BAM) Peer Review College Member, 2023–present
Advance HE Athena Swan Observer, 2022–present
National & International Awards
Globally Top Scholar (Top 0.5% worldwide) in Undergraduate Education, ScholarGPS, 2024
Top 100 Women in Tech, UK – Barclays, 2024 (Digital Pedagogy & AI Leadership)
Champion of Gender Equity – Chartered Management Institute (CMI), 2023
Rising Star (Champion) Award – Royal Bank of Canada, 2023
Shortlisted – British Council International Assessment Award, 2023- Shortlisted – British Council E-Assessment Award, 2024
- Winner, Best Project Presentation – Future Global Leader Forum, QMUL, 2020
Technology & Pedagogical Innovation
- Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, 2023–2025
- Microsoft Advanced Educator, 2022
Apple Educator, 2023- LMU University Teaching Fellowship – Advancing EDI in Teaching, Learning & Assessment, 2022
Institutional Awards
- Best Educator Award – GSBL Student Union, LMU, 2023
- Contribution to EDI Award – GSBL Student Union, LMU, 2022 & 2023
- Researcher of the Year – GSBL, LMU, 2022
- Shortlisted – Best Educator Award, GSBL Student Union, 2022
- Shortlisted – Best New Member of Staff, LSBU, 2020
Project & Research Excellence
- European Commission Seal of Excellence – CULTEXP Project (AI for Cultural Expertise), Horizon Europe, 2025
- Erasmus+ Good Practice Badge – ENRICH Project (Inclusive Multilingual Classrooms), 2023
- British Council Innovation in Assessment Award – TALE Project, 2019
- Award for Exceptional Performance – Erasmus+ Coordination, Ministry of Education, Cyprus, 2004
- Second Best Roundtable Presentation – JURE-EARLI Conference, Cyprus, 2015
Champion for Gender Equality Award
Education Practice 2022 Award
Apple Educator
London Metropolitan University Teaching Fellow in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in Learning, Teaching and Assessment 2022
Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
London Met Student Union Award for my Contribution to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion 2022 & 2023
London Met Student Union Award for the most Outstanding Academic Member of Staff (Teaching) at GSBL 2023, (shortlisted in 2022)
Shortlisted LSBU Best New member of Staff 2020
We Are The City's Rising Star Champion Award 2023
Personal Research Budget Grant
Travel & Research Funding,
University of Cyprus
The University of Cyprus has supported my research and provided funding to present my work at various conferences (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017)
Best PhD Student Award,
University of Cyprus
Full three-year Outstanding PhD Student scholarship (full tuition and research stipend)
Shortlisted Best JURE roundtable Award
Second Best JURE Roundtable Presentation, JURE (Junior Researchers of EARLI’) Conference 2015, Cyprus
Scholarship for my MA in Applied Linguistics,
Greek Ministry of Education and Culture
Full three-year scholarship (including tuition fees and maintenance expenses) awarded by the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs for my MA in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Scholarship allowance for my MA in Linguistics, University of Cyprus
A stipend granted from the University of Cyprus to support me while studying to complete my MA in Linguistics
Erasmus+-related Awards, Mobility Grants, Partnerships and School Exchanges
- ERASMUS School Education Mobility Grant (1 week) (London) (2007)
- ERASMUS+ project Coordination award (2004)
- ERASMUS School Education Mobility Grant (1 week) (Oxford) (2004)
- ERASMUS Strategic Partnership for School Education Project Co-ordination Mobility Grant (2003)
- ERASMUS Strategic Partnership for School Education Project Co-ordination Mobility Grant (2003)
- ERASMUS School Exchange Partnership Grant (1 week) (2003)
Award for the Passport to IFP Project:
Online orientation course for International Foundation Programme students to help them with the transition to life at Queen Mary and facilitate networking between students
Future Global Leader Forum
Queen Mary University of London, UK
