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• PhD in Psychology - Brunel University London
• PGCert in Teaching and Learning in HE - Brunel University London (HEA Accredited)
• MPhil in English and Applied Linguistics - Cambridge University
• BA (Hons) English Language Studies - University of Central Lancashire

• Deaf Awareness Qualification, ‘Working & Communicating Well with Deaf People’, DCAL UCL
• Fellow with HEA, Accreditation
• ERP Certificate of Attendance, ERP Summer School, Bangor University
• B-Innovative Entrepreneurship 10-week (CPD/Consultancy) Course, ÑÇÉ«ÊÓƵ
• Linear Models in R (CPD Course), University of Kent
• Counseling I, UCLAN

• BSc Psychology Course Leader
• Teaching UG/PG students
• Unit Co-ordinator
• Supervising UG/PG student research projects
• Personal Academic Tutor
• Neuropsychology Lab coordinator (EEG & Eye-Tracking)
• Student Research Assistant Scheme coordinator
• Junior Research Institute, Co-director

• Neural plasticity
• Typical and atypical cognitive development
• Language acquisition
• Speech perception
• Reading development and reading interventions
• Brain plasticity in first and second language learning
• High variability perceptual training (HVPT)
• Design, development and evaluation of language learning computer training tools and smartphone applications
• Psychology of Ageing (healthy and pathological ageing)
• EEG /neuroimaging techniques

• British Psychological Society (BPS) – Chartered Psychologist, Division of Neuropsychology (CPsychol, DoN)
• Fellow, Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• British Dyslexia Association (BDA)
• American Association for Psychological Science (APS)
• Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR)
• External Examiner, University of East London
• Research Journal & Book Reviewer (PLOS, OUP, Journal of Phonetics, JSLHR, PeerJ, and more)

• ‘Exploring the effect of rhythm on cognitive function and reading in children with varied reading ability (typical and dyslexic readers)’, in collaboration with the University of California San Francisco, USA.
• ‘Smart Reading - Developing Reading Skills using a game-based App in children, ‘Luppakorva’ Reading Dog Project’, in collaboration with OutLoud Labs (Finland) and University of Wolverhampton, Birmingham City University, Liverpool John Moores University.

• Research England Fund, January 2024 – present
• Research Centre for Applied Psychology Fund, December 2023 – present

• Wilsdon, L., Uther, M., Chadwick, D., Giannakopoulou, A. (2023). Smart Reading: Developing Reading Skills using a game-based App in children. Oral Presentation. 16^th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Seville, Spain, 13-15 November 2023. ISBN: 978-84-09-55942-8. DOI: 10.21125/iceri.2023.
• Zanto, T., Giannakopoulou, A., Gallen, C., Ostrand, A., Younger, J., Anguera-Singla, R., Anguera, J. and Gazzaley, A. (2023). Effects of digital rhythm training on cognitive abilities in children and older adults. ICMPC17-APSCOM7 (Joint Conference of the 17^th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) and the 7^th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (APSCOM), Nihon University, Japan, 24-28 August 2023.
• Wilsdon, L., Uther, M., Chadwick, D., Giannakopoulou, A. (2023). Smart reading: Developing reading skills using a game-based app in children. Poster Presentation. 25^th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Copenhagen, Denmark, 23-28 July 2023,
• Giannakopoulou, A., Zanto, T., Gallen, C., Ostrand, A., Younger, J., Anguera-Singla, R., Anguera, J. and Gazzaley, A. (2023). , Oral Presentation. Palma, Majorca, Spain. 3-5 July 2023.
• Giannakopoulou, A., Zanto, T., Gallen, C., Ostrand, A., Younger, J., Anguera-Singla, R., Anguera, J. and Gazzaley, A. (2023). . 4-10 June 2023, Rhodes Island, Greece
• Wilsdon, L., Uther, M., Chadwick, D. Giannakopoulou, A. (2023). Smart reading: Developing reading skills using a game-based app in children. Learning and Plasticity LaP 2023, Finland.
• Junttila, K., Smolander, A.R., Karhila, R., Giannakopoulou, A., Uther, M., Kurimo, M., Ylinen, S. (2022). Speech-based gaming in children's foreign-language learning. Learning and Plasticity LaP2022, Lapland, Finland (oral presentation).
• Junttila, K., Smolander, A.R., Karhila, R., Giannakopoulou, A., Uther, M., Kurimo, M., Ylinen, S. (2022). ‘Say it again Kid’: evidence for improvements from a game-based language learning application. New Sounds 2022, the 10th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, 20-22 April 2022, Barcelona (oral presentation).
• Kangatharan, J., Giannakopoulou, A., Uther, M. (2020). Intelligibility of speech improves after perceptual vowel training in L2 learners of English. Editor: Linda Taschenberger. (2020, March 29). Book of Abstracts: 2nd Workshop on Speech Perception and Production across the Lifespan (SPPL2020). Zenodo.

• Zanto, T.P., Giannakopoulou, A., Gallen, C.L., Ostrand, A. E., Younger, J. W., Anguera-Singla, R., Anguera, J.A., Gazzaley, A. (2024). Digital rhythm training improves reading fluency in children. Developmental Science.
• Sidat, S., Giannakopoulou, A., Hand, C.J., Ingram, J., (2023). Dual-task decrements in mono-, bi-, and multilingual participants: evidence of multilingual advantage. LATERALITY: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition. ISSN: 1357-650X. DOI:
• Mallinson, M.G., Giannakopoulou, A. & Clements, A. (2022). The Impact of Linguistic Form of Labels on Desire for Social Distance in Mental Health. Int J Ment Health Addiction.
• Junttila, K., Smolander, A-R., Karhila, R., Giannakopoulou, A., Uther, M., Kurimo, M. and Ylinen, S. (2022). Gaming enhances learning-induced plastic changes in the brain. Brain and Language. Volume 230, ISSN 0093-934X.
• Kangatharan, J., Giannakopoulou, A., Uther, M. (2021). The Effect of HVP Training in Vowel Perception on Bilingual Speech Production. Research in English Language Teaching. Conscientia Beam. Vol 2 (1), pp. 15-32.
• Davis, M. H., Evans, S., McCarthy, K., Evans, L., Giannakopoulou, A., & Taylor, J. S. H. (2019, January 29). Lexical learning shapes the development of speech perception until late adolescence. Preprint available at:

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