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