Dr Elpis Pavlidou

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Biography

I am an educational neuroscientist in the making who studied Psychology in Greece, went to Scotland to continue studying, decided to move to the USA to chase my academic ‘American Dream’ and I am now based in England. In 2010, I received my PhD, funded by the Greek State Scholarships, from The University of Edinburgh where I continued to work for 2 years as a research assistant in Moray House School of Education. In 2012, the European Commission funded my post-doc research work for 3 years via the Marie Sklodowska-Curie International Outgoing Fellowships scheme, part of which I spent at Haskins Laboratories, Yale University.

Departmental roles

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Psychology in Education, the UG Pastoral Lead and Deputy chair of the in-house Ethics Committee. I am affiliated with Haskins Laboratories (Yale University) and the Rudolf Berlin Centre (Amsterdam).

Research

Overview

I am interested in typical and atypical written language (namely dyslexia) from a cognitive, developmental and psychosocial perspective. My research to date aims at answering the following broad questions:

How do typical children and those with development dyslexia learn to read and spell?
Can difficulties with implicit learning (ie our ability to pick up regularities from our environment incidentally) explain some of difficulties children with dyslexia face?
Why do children with literacy difficulties have poorer socio-emotional and functional outcomes?

In parallel, I am interested in how the answers to these questions can be used in the development and application of targeted and tailored interventions.

Projects

2017-present: Lexilogy-English: The effects of a pilot online computer training programme focusing on morphological knowledge on primary school poor English readers and spellers. In partnership with Hester Hoette (Lexilogy, https://lexilogy.com) and Dr Jurgen Tijms (University of Amsterdam; Rudolf Berlin Centre).

2017: "The things that make me different are the things that make me" (Winnie the Pooh): Exploring risk and protective factors of resilience in children with reading difficulties.

2017-present: Changing Lives of Adults with Dyslexia: screening for reading difficulties among vulnerable job seekers. In partnership with Changing Lives organisation (https://www.changing-lives.org.uk) and York And District Dyslexia Association (YADDA) (https://yadda.org.uk)

2012-2015: Implicit learning in specific developmental disorders (ILSDD) http://honey-bee.wixsite.com/ilearn-project

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Grants

2016-2018 Research Priming Grant, Education, UoY (£2,500)
2012-2015 Marie Sklodowska-Curie IOF, European Commission (€ 271,950)
2008-2009 Wingate Foundation Grant (£3,600)
2005-2009 PhD Grant, Greek Foundation for State Scholarships (€ 50,000)

Available PhD research projects

I accept PhD students interested in the following research areas and related fields:

Neurobiology of reading across languages
Neurocognitive bases of Developmental Dyslexia
Development and individual differences of implicit/statistical learning
Diagnostic procedures in Developmental Dyslexia