Academic staff – Theological School of the Church of Cyprus

Protopresbyter Κyprianos Κountouris

Assistant Professor of History, Education and Culture, Director
Arch. Gregorios Ioannides

Assistant Professor of Liturgical Studies, Ηead of the Undergraduate Programme of Studies
Olga Solomontos – Kountouri

Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology, Theological School of the Church of Cyprus
Maria Pavlou

Αssistant Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature
Konstantinos Tsagkaridis, MSc, PhD

Lecturer in Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology Member of the Research and International Relations Office: Research Coordinator of T.S.C.C. & member of the Erasmus Office
Ioulia Televantou

Lecturer in Research Methodology & Statistics
Archimandrite Nikolaos Ioannidis

Professor
Marios Vryonides

Visiting Professor
Maria Sakellariou

Visiting Professor
Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos

Visiting Professor
Elias G. Besevegis

Emeritus Professor of Developmental Psychology
Dr. Angeliki Leondari

Professor Emeritus
Metropolitan of Constantine Vasilios (Karagiannis)

Teaching Associate
Tofaridou Iliada

Teaching Associate
Metropolitan Sasimon Gennadios (Lymouris Nikolaos)

Teaching Associate
Ioannis Bekos

Τeaching Associate
Myria Kkali

Academic Director, Cyprus Institute of Marketing
Dr Andreas Foulias

Teaching Associate
Karolina Lambrou

Teaching Associate
Protopresbyter Socratis Andreou

Academic Associate
Chrysovalantis Kyriacou

Teaching Associate
Christina Hadjiafxenti

Teaching Associate
Zisis Melissakis

Senior Researcher NHRF, Teaching Associate, Τ.S.C.C.
Amalia Neocleous

PhD of Theology with Specialization in Biblical Studies
George Kounnoushis
Dina Mousteri

Teaching Associate
Dimitris Ierodiakonou

Teaching Associate

Protopresbyter Κyprianos Κountouris

Assistant Professor of History, Education and Culture, Director

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Protopresbyter Kyprianos Kountouris is Αssistant Professor of History of Education and Culture at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus. He is also the Director of the School. He has worked for three decades in Primary Education, serving as a school Ηeadmaster in the United Kingdom and Cyprus. He has been actively involved in a great number of projects and has amble experience in the implementation of innovative programs and research projects. He received his PhD from the Department of Education of the University of Ioannina, Greece (2015) with a thesis entitled “Contribution to the History of Pre-Primary, Primary and Secondary Education of Greek Community Schools in Great Britain (20^th century). A Case Study: The Greek-Orthodox School of Ayios Demetrios, North London”. He also holds an MA in Teaching History from the University of London (1995), and a Diploma in Education (1992) from the same university. He is currently conducting postdoctoral research at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, on the Codex of Ayios Andronikos Church, in Dali, Cyprus. He has presented papers at international and local conferences.

Arch. Gregorios Ioannides

Assistant Professor of Liturgical Studies, Ηead of the Undergraduate Programme of Studies

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Archim. Gregorios Ioannides is Assistant Professor in Liturgical studies. He teaches courses in Liturgy in the undergraduate Theology program at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus. He is also in charge of the Library and Head of the Office of Pastoral Care. He currently acts as a Protosyngelos in the Holy Metropolis of Trimithous. He is a member of the Throne Committee and Head of the Ecclesiastical Deaconry and Enlightenment Office of the Metropolis, which is responsible for the initiatives of the Women’s Christian Association and the organization of readings of the Bible, speeches, lectures, conferences, student conferences and camps. Apart from his duties in pastoral and social work, he represents the Holy Metropolis of Trimithous in Synodic Committees and in the Committee of the Department of Antiquities for the preservation of the cultural heritage of the metropolitan area.

Olga Solomontos – Kountouri

Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology, Theological School of the Church of Cyprus

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Dr. Olga Solomontos-Kountouri is an Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology, Head of the Master in Application of Psychology and Counseling in the Community and Head of Research and International Relations at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus. She has a PhD on Developmental Psychology and a Master on Child Development from the Institute of Education, London University. She is a coordinator of National Representatives and Newsletter Editor of European Association of Research on Adolescence (EARA). She is an appointed member of the Prison Council. She develops two main research directions: The first concerns the developmental psychology of adolescence on three areas: (a) identity (b) delinquency and (c) bullying. The second line of research focusses on applied psychology on the above three areas in two target groups: (a) the education of young offenders during their imprisonment that aims at occupational and social rehabilitation and (b) the implementation of prevention and intervention programs to reduce bullying and victimization in secondary school students. With her research group implements educational intervention programs to inmates, i.e., ELMIP, CUP, SEMELI. In cooperation with the Ministry of Education and the professor Dagmar Strohmeier, she implements the Viennese Social Competence Program -ViSC in Secondary Schools in Cyprus since 2012. She is a member of many scientific organizations; she has many publications in scientific journals and presentations at international and local conferences.

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Blog https://solomontoskountouri.wordpress.com/

Maria Pavlou

Αssistant Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature

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Dr Maria Pavlou is Αssistant Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus. She teaches at the Undergraduate Programme of Theology and is also responsible for the School’s Public Relations and Quality Assurance. Dr Pavlou read Classics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BA, 1997-2002) and Leeds University (MA, 2003). She received her PhD from the University of Bristol, UK (2003-2007) with a thesis titled “Time in Pindar”. She has recently received an MSc in Digital Education from the University of Edinburgh (2018). From 2005 onwards she worked as a Teaching Fellow / Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Bristol (2005-2009), the University of Cyprus (2014-2018), and the Open University of Cyprus (2010-2013 & 2018), and was involved in a number of research projects at the University of Cyprus (2010-2011) and the Open University of Cyprus (2012-2015). She has also been awarded several scholarships: Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University), Μargo Tytus Summer Fellow (University of Cincinnati), National Scholarship Foundation of Greece (IKY), A. G. Leventis Foundation, Αrts and Humanities Research Council (U.K.), Fondation Hardt (Geneva), J. Costopoulos Foundation. She has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes and is the co-editor (with Prof. Vayos Liapis and Prof. Antonis Petrides) of Debating with the Eumenides (Cambridge Scholars 2018). Currently she is co-editing (with Prof. Antonis Tsakmakis and Dr Eleni Kaklamanou) the collective volume Framing theDialogues: How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato, to be published by Brill in 2019.

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Konstantinos Tsagkaridis, MSc, PhD

Lecturer in Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology Member of the Research and International Relations Office: Research Coordinator of T.S.C.C. & member of the Erasmus Office

Dr. Konstantinos Tsagkaridis is a Lecturer of Research Methods & Statistics in Psychology and the Research Coordinator at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus. He was awarded a PhD in Cognitive/Experimental Psychology from the University of Edinburgh (2011) and a Masters in Neuropsychology from the University of Bristol (2007). His postgraduate studies were funded by a scholarship from IKY (Hellenic State Scholarships Foundation). He has worked as a Lecturer of Experimental Psychology / Neuropsychology (2013-2018) and coordinator of the research labs of the Psychology department (Behavioural Studies Lab, Eye-tracking Lab and Virtual Reality Lab) at Neapolis University Pafos. He has also worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (MRRI: Philadelphia, PA, USA), Albert Einstein Healthcare Network (2012-13). Before that post, he worked as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Cyprus (2011). His teaching experience also includes teaching Statistics at the University of Edinburgh (2007-08), at all undergraduate levels. He has also worked at the University of Edinburgh as a research associate (2011), research assistant (2010-11) and tutor (2007-08).

His main research interests lie in the areas of Cognitive Neuropsychology and Experimental Psychology and concern visual perception and action. Specifically, his research relates to semantic and action effects on object perception in healthy controls and patients with brain lesions. Other research interests include contextual effects on object perception, translational research in health and rehabilitation, bullying and the positive influences of culture. He is a member of professional bodies, he has publications in scientific journals and participation in international and national conferences.

Studies:

PhD in Cognitive/Experimental Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Studies, 2011.

MSc in Neuropsychology, University of Bristol, Department of Experimental Psychology, 2007.

BSc in Psychology, Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, 2004.

Research Interests:

Perceptual Motor Interactions. Semantic and action effects on Visual Perception. The influence of action in object associations, in patients with brain lesions and healthy controls.

Contextual Effects on Perception. The influence of action affordances in object perception in realistic contexts of real world scenes.

Embodied Cognition. Application of embodied cognition theories in areas such as rehabilitation of patients with brain damage (e.g. apraxia).

The developmental path of semantic and action knowledge organization in different ages.

Selected Publications:

Tsagkaridis, K., Cavalleri, F. & Flora, K. (under review). A Longitudinal Study on Decision Makers’ Cultural Influences on the Implementation of the European Capital of Culture.

Flora, K., Tsagkaridis, K., Papacosta, L. & Vliamos, N. (2019). A review of addictive behaviors of Greek Cypriots: Profiles of associated problematic behaviors. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 1-13. doi: 10.1080/15332640.2019.1579143

Solomontos-Kountouri, O., Tsagkaridis, K., Gradinger P., & Strohmeier D. (2017). Academic, socio-emotional and demographic characteristics of adolescents involved in traditional bullying, cyberbullying or both: Looking at variables and persons. International Journal of Developmental Science. Vol. 11 (1-2), p. 19-30. doi: 10.3233/DEV-17219

Tsagkaridis, K., Watson, C., Jax, S. & Buxbaum, L. (2014). The role of action representations in thematic object relations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 140.

doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00140,

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Ioulia Televantou

Lecturer in Research Methodology & Statistics

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I am a researcher in quantitative social science, with a special interest in the application of advance quantitative techniques in large-scale, empirical driven research, seeking to assess peer effects and contextual influences on cognitive and affective domains in childhood and adolescence. My research has so far received several awards and grants, among others, the 2015 Bruce Choppin Memorial award and the 2017 AERA travel award grant. In addition, it has been published in major scientific journals (SESI, Journal of Educational Psychology, Learning & Instruction) and it has attracted funding from major funding bodies (e.g. the Economic Social Research Council, UK and the Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus). As well as doing research, I very much enjoy teaching Research Methodology and Quantitative Methods courses to both undergraduate and postgraduate students in Education, Psychology, and allied fields. I have extensive experience in teaching Distance Learning – as well as conventional courses.

Studies:
As an undergraduate, I earned a 1st class honours in Pure Mathematics (University of Cyprus). I then went to Oxford where I completed an MSc in Applied Statistics – a degree with a focus on applications of Statistics using R programming language – and a second MSc in Educational Research Methodology. During my doctorate studies (Oxford University Department of Education, 2009-2014), I worked under the supervision of Herbert W. Marsh (Professor at Australian Catholic University, Emeritus Professor at Australian Catholic University and founder of the International SELF Research Centre).

Research Interests:
My research interests lie in the application of advance quantitative research methods to investigate inter-disciplinary substantive issues from the field of psychology and education. Part of my research seeks to estimate the peer influence on students’ academic outcomes, using statistical methodology capable to adjust for measurement error bias, and, omitted variable bias. I am also working on a research project concerned with the extent that individual countries provide religious freedoms to their citizens, and the effect that this has on the religious crime incidence and, the subjective feeling of religious freedom of the citizens themselves. Finally, in a collaborative project with researchers from the University of Nicosia Medical Education Programme, we are trying to evaluate the impact that teaching in a Problem Based Learning Environment, has on the students’ academic outcomes, and the development of their learning style and learning approach.

Selected Publications:
Televantou,I., Marsh, H.W., Dicke, T. & Nicolaides, C. (in press). Phantom and Big-Fish-Little-Pond-Effects on academic self-concept and academic achievement: Evidence from English early primary schools. Learning and Instruction.

Dicke, T., Marsh, H. W., Parker, P. D., Pekrun, R., Guo, J., & Televantou, I. (2018). Effects of School-Average Achievement on Individual Self-concept and Achievement: Unmasking Phantom Effects Masquerading as True Compositional Effects. Journal of Educational Psychology. 110(8), 1112-1126.

Caro, D.H., Kyriakides, L. & Televantou, I. (2017). Addressing omitted prior achievement bias in international assessments: an applied example using PIRLS-NPD matched data, Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 1-23, doi:10.1080/0969594X.2017.1353950

Televantou, I., Marsh, H.W., Kyriakides, L., Nagengast, B., Fletcher, J., & Malmberg, L.-E. (2015). Phantom effects in school composition research: Consequences of failure to control biases due to measurement error in traditional multilevel models. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 26, 75-101. doi: 10.1080/09243453.2013.871302

Marsh, H. W, Nagengast, B., Fletcher, J. & Televantou, I. (2011). Assessing educational effectiveness: policy implications from diverse areas of research. Fiscal Studies, 32, 279 – 295. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-5890.2011. 00137.x

Archimandrite Nikolaos Ioannidis

Professor

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Archimandrite Nikolaos Ioannidis is a retired professor of the Department of Theology of the Theological School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is currently a professor of Patrology at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus. He has participated as a speaker at numerous conferences both in Greece and abroad. He has supervised several post-graduate and doctoral dissertations and has participated in numerous three-member and seven-member supervising committees of post-graduate and doctoral dissertations, as well as in many three-member commissions and electoral bodies for the evaluation and promotion of Lecturers, Assistant, Associate and Regular Professors at PSPA, EPS and the Theological Faculty of the University of Belgrade. For a number of years he has been a member of a series of Synodal Committees of the Church of Greece (Divine Worship and Pastoral Work and Liturgical Renewal). He has served as Chairman of the Governing Committee of the Athens Higher Ecclesiastical Academy for a decade. He has been honoured by the Patriarchate of Moscow with the medal of St. Sergius and by the Church of Greece with the highest distinction, the “Golden Cross of St. Paul”.

Marios Vryonides

Visiting Professor

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Marios Vryonides is Professor of Sociology, Sociology of Education and Research Methods at the European University Cyprus. He received his PhD from the Institute of Education – University of London (2003). From 2004 until 2009 he was visiting lecturer at the Institute of Education – University of London. He has taught at Anglia Polytechnic (now Ruskin) University (2001-2003) and the University of the Aegean (2004-2007). From 2008 until 2013 he was Cyprus’ national coordinator of the European Social Survey. Among the funded projects he has recently successfully completed are: EU funded project “Basic Skills Education and Training in Prisons” (2013-2015), EU funded project “Children’s Voices: Exploring Interethnic Violence and Children’s Rights in the School Environment” (2011-2013), EU funded project “Fundamental rights education in Europe” (2011-2013). He is currently the Secretary of the Research Committee on Sociology of Education (RC04) of the International Sociological Association (2010-2018). He has published widely on sociological and educational issues in international peer reviewed journals. His research interests focus on contemporary sociological theory, sociology of education and the theories of cultural and social capital.

Maria Sakellariou

Visiting Professor

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Dr. Maria Sakellariou professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Ioannina. She was President of the Department of Early Childhood Education of the University of Ioannina from September 2013 to November 2017 and she is currently the Director of the Postgraduate Program in “Preschool Education” and Director of the Laboratory of Pedagogical and Didactic Methodology of the Department of Early Childhood Education University of Ioannina. (http://ecedu.uoi.gr). She has taught as Visiting Professor at the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Cyprus at the Postgraduate Program of Studies “Gender and New Technologies in Education”, which is implemented by the TEEPES of the University of the Aegean. She teaches at the Master’s program “Education Sciences – Critical Pedagogy and Teacher Education” at the University of Crete and Pedagogical Theories and Pedagogy and Religious Lessons at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus.

Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos

Visiting Professor

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Dr. Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos is a professor of Biblical Theology, with a specialization in “New Testament” studies, at the Department of Orthodox Theology of the University of Munich. He is also guest professor at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus. From 2003 to 2011 he was President of the Orthodox Department, and from 2011 to this day is Chairman of the Examining Board of the aforementioned department of the University of Munich. Since 2006, he has been publishing the German-language scientific theological journal “Orthodoxes Forum” and since 2011 the series of theological monographs “Lehr und Studienbücher Orthodoxe Theologie”. He is a member of the Committee on Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox and the Catholic churches of Germany, as well as the Dialogue Committee between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the German Evangelical Church. He participates in interdisciplinary research programs of European Universities and is a member of many scientific societies, foundations and committees. He has participated in Evaluating Committees of undergraduate and postgraduate programs at Greek and Cypriot Universities, following invitations from the institutions ADIP in Greece and DIPAE in Cyprus. He has published monographs, various studies and articles in the fields of Introduction, Interpretation and Theology of the New Testament, and, Byzantine Museology, Liturgy and Hymnology of the early Church. The Linguistic development in the Hellenistic and early Christian period is the main focus of his research activities and teaching, with a special interest in the “Common” language of the New Testament.

Elias G. Besevegis

Emeritus Professor of Developmental Psychology

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Dr. Elias Besevegis holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Rutgers University, NJ, USA. He has been the Head of the Department of Psychology and Director of the Graduate Program in School Psychology, University of Athens. He has taught many courses, both undergraduate and graduate, and has organized several conferences, both Hellenic and International. He has participated in many research projects in collaboration with colleagues from European and American Universities. He is the author of over 70 journal articles, book chapters and books, in Greek and in English. He is the author -or co-author – of psychometric tools and the editor of textbooks and of special journal issues in Psychology.

Dr. Angeliki Leondari

Professor Emeritus

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Dr Angeliki Leondari is Professor Emeritus of the University of Thessaly. Her area of specialization is School Psychology. She is visiting Academic Staff of the School of Theology of the Church of Cyprus. She teaches for the Master Degree of Applied Psychology Program the courses of Counseling Psychology. She is Assistant Editor of the Hellenic Journal of Psychology, member of the editorial board for the International Journal of School and Cognitive Psychology, reviewer in several Greek and international scientific journals. She has been member of the Psychology Committee for I.O.R.A.I.T. (Interdisciplinary Organization for the Recognition of Academic Titles, Δ.Ο.Α.Τ.Α.Π.) (2004-2008). Member of the Scientific Committee of the Project of the General Secretariat for Gender Equality (ΓΓΙΦ), «Strengthening local government actions for the benefit of women and the fight against violence».

Her research interests include topics related to self-concept, body image, self-esteem, possible selves, achievement motivation, children’s understanding of death and death anxiety.

Metropolitan of Constantine Vasilios (Karagiannis)

Teaching Associate

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Metropolitan of Constantine Basil (Karagiannis) teaches Dogmatics in the Undergraduate Theology program of the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus. He was elected Metropolitan of Constantia – Famagusta in 2007. He holds a PhD degree in “Ontological Distinction of Substance, Energy and Knowledge of God according to St. Maximus the Confessor” and a postgraduate Diploma from the Faculty of Theology of the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He has served as a representative of the Church of Cyprus in the cross-Christian dialogue for a number of years. He has paricipated in a number of international conferences. Since 2011, he is co-organizer of the research program of the Salamis Free University of Famagusta, where, and is also the initiator of the Ayia Napa research project. He is a member of scientific associations, committees for the organization of conferences and professional services. He has a rich research resume with publications in scientific journals and many presentations in international and local conferences.

Tofaridou Iliada

Teaching Associate

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Dr Iliada Tofaridou teaches Information Technology at the Theological School of the church of Cyprus. She teaches in the undergraduate Theology program. She has participated in international and local conferences and she has published articles in scientific magazines.

Her research interests can be classified in two areas: first, the effective use of Information Technology in Mathematics, and, second; the development of a learning models aiming to enhance learning outcomes.

Metropolitan Sasimon Gennadios (Lymouris Nikolaos)

Teaching Associate

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Metropolitan Sasimon Gennadios (Lymouris Nikolaos) teaches Canon Law in the undergraduate program of Theology of the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus. On June 1, 1997, he was ordained Metropolitan Bishop Sassim at the Patriarchal Church of Saint George at Fanari and from November 2007 he was promoted to active Metropolitan with the same title. He graduated from the Theological Institute of Saint Sergio in Paris and completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Strasbourg. He has been awarded a Doctorate (Ph.D.) in America and holds a Ph.D. degree from Strasbourg University in France and Tubingen University in Germany. From 1984 to 1992 he was Professor of Orthodox Canon Law at the Theological School of the University of Strasbourg and from 1990 to 1997 he taught Orthodox and Universal Theology at the St Bernardino Institute of Ecumenical Studies, Venice, and Pontificio Ateneo Antonianum Pontifical University of Rome, Italy. From 1983 to 1990 he taught Orthodox Canon Law at the Institute of Canon Law of the Theological School of Strasbourg, France. He has also served as visiting Professor at various Universities in America, Europe, Africa and Asia. He is the Vice-President of the Central and Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches, Co-President of the International Theological Dialogue of the Orthodox and Lutheran churches, a member of the International Theological Dialogue of the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church, as well as President of the Theological Dialogues of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Methodists, Baptists and Pentecostals. He is also a member of various theological societies in Europe and represents the Ecumenical Patriarchate in various missions. He wrote more than four hundred theological studies, books, articles and works in various Greek and foreign journals on Orthodox Theology and universal content, in various languages.

Ioannis Bekos

Τeaching Associate

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Dr John Bekos is Teaching Associate at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus. He also teaches Ethics, Philosophy and Religious Education at the University of Cyprus and St Barnabas Seminary of the Church of Cyprus. He has a strong interdisciplinary academic profile (twice PhD holder in the field of Cognitive Psychology/Education and Christian Ethics) and is distinguished for his trans-disciplinary research and teaching. Since 2015 he is appointed as the Academic Supervisor for the reform of Religious Education in Cyprus. He has a good track-record of publications in top journals such as Studies in Christian Ethics, Christian Bioethics, Studia Patristica and the International Journal of Public Theology. He is also member of the Church of Cyprus Synodical Committee for Bioethics and the Cyprus National Bioethics Committee (NCBC) and substantially contributes to the publication of a series of opinions. Since 2013 Dr Bekos serves as an Ethics Review Expert in the European Commission (FP7 and Horizon 2020) and the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP). His scholarly work focuses on, among others, the most challenging socio-political issues like bioethical issues, the current financial and refugee crises in Europe and the role of religion in education and the modern societies. He is the author of ‘Which Ethics? Which Story? The Narrative of Divine Liturgy and the Transformation of the Human’ published in Greece by En Plo editions. His last book Euthanasia and Patristic Tradition: St John Damascene and St Symeon the New Theologian will be published by James Clarke & Co (Cambridge, UK) [forthcoming August 2019].

Myria Kkali

Academic Director, Cyprus Institute of Marketing

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Dr Myria Kkali is a full-time lecturer at CIM and the Academic Director at the Nicosia Campus as well as Deputy Director at the CIM Research Centre. Her research interests include sensemaking and sensegiving practices in organisations, data-based marketing and social marketing. Dr Myria Kkali is the Program Coordinator for the BA Business Management (Marketing) in Nicosia.

Myria has been working in academia since 2012, when she was employed as a GTA in the Nottingham University Business School (Marketing department), where she received her PhD in 2018. She has been working as the Academic Director (Nicosia) at CIM since June 2017, where she delivers modules in topics such as marketing management, consumer behaviour, research methods, global marketing and contemporary marketing challenges.

She has presented her own research at the 2015 British Academy of Management Conference, held in Portsmouth in October 2016, and her conference paper was published in the conference proceedings.

Myria is very interested in bridging the gap between academia and industry and has published a number of articles in the Business Bulletin of the CIM Research Centre. She has also delivered training seminars and has participated in consulting projects.

She has developed close ties with many industry specialists since her move back to Cyprus in 2016 and has co-founded an NGO focusing on bringing about social change through music, by bringing opportunities to children and young people from low socio-economic backgrounds. Myria acts as the marketing and communications officer of the organisation.

Dr Andreas Foulias

Teaching Associate

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Dr Andreas Foulias is Teaching Associate at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus since 2017; he specialises in Christian and Byzantine Archaeology. In 2004/2005 he worked as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Cyprus, teaching an undergraduate course on the Paleo-Christian Art of Cyprus. Dr Foulias received his PhD from the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens, Greece (2011) with a thesis titled Architecture and Monumental Painting in Cyprus during the Period of Arab Raids (649-965).

He has published books and several articles in peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes. He is the editor for the Publications of the second Congress, O Καθεδρικός Ναός Αγίου Ιωάννου 355 χρόνια, Ministry of Education, Church of Cyprus Theology School, 5 Μay 2017. He is also editing the Proceedings of third Congress, 150 Χρόνια από τα εγκαίνια του Καθολικού του Αποστόλου Ανδρέα Καρπασίας, Ministry of Education, Church of Cyprus Theology School, 3-4 November 2017. He is a member of the Open University advisory committee responsible for the “History of Cyprus” Module. He was a member of a team of Architects and Archaeologists which undertook the restoration of St. Mary’s Armenian Church (14^th ce.); the project was awarded with the Europa Nostra 2015.

Karolina Lambrou

Teaching Associate

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Dr Karolina Lambrou is a visiting lecturer at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus, where she teaches English for Theology to undergraduate students. She also works as an English teacher at the State Institutes of Further Education. She has worked in the publishing industry for many years, in Cyprus and the U.K. She has presented her work in numerous international conferences and publications.

Protopresbyter Socratis Andreou

Academic Associate

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Father Socratis Andreou holds a PhD in Theology from the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is scientific associate of the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus and teaches a spring semester elective course, entitled “Topics of Ecclesiastical Linguistics and Patristic Theology”.

StudiesPhD in Theology, Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki, 2017Master of Theology, Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki, 2011Degree of Theology, Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki, 2008

Chrysovalantis Kyriacou

Teaching Associate

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Dr Chrysovalantis Kyriacou is Teaching Associate at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus, specialising in the field of ecclesiastical history. He has taught Byzantine history as Teaching Associate at the University of Cyprus. Dr Kyriacou is Research Associate of the Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and the European University Cyprus. He has participated in conferences in Cyprus and abroad. He is author of the book Orthodox Cyprus under the Latins, 1191–1571: Society, Spirituality, and Identities (Lexington Books: New York–London, 2018).

Christina Hadjiafxenti

Teaching Associate

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Dr Christina Hadjiafxenti is since 2020 Teaching associate at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus, specializing in the field of Byzantine Literature. She is also research assistant at the Faculty of Byzantine Studies of the University of Cyprus. From September 2018 to April 2019 she worked in the research project of the Open University of Cyprus “Byzart: Byzantine Art and Archaeology on Europeana”. From 2015 to 2017 she had a postdoc-scholarship at the Leibniz-Institute for European History in Mainz in Germany and Leibniz-WissenschaftCampus Mainz “Byzantium between Orient and Occident” (Subject of the research project: The reception of Byzantium in the Church historiography of the 19^th century. A comparison between German and Greek sources). In 2017 she had also a fellowship at the Georg-Eckert-Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig, Germany.

She participated in many conferences and workshops in Germany and other European countries and was teaching assistant for many semesters at the University of Leipzig in Germany.

Zisis Melissakis

Senior Researcher NHRF, Teaching Associate, Τ.S.C.C.

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Dr Zisis Melissakis is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Historical Research (Section of Byzantine Research) of the National Hellenic Research Foundation. His research focuses mainly on monastic libraries, particularly Mount Athos and Patmos through palaeographical, codicological, as well as historical and archival topics. His current principal work concern the cataloguing of the manuscripts of the Monastery of St John the Theologian on Patmos, as well as the manuscripts and old printed books of the Monastery of Iviron on Mount Athos. He has participated in a number of Greek and International research projects on the Byzantine and post-Byzantine manuscript book. Since 2002 he has been teaching Greek Palaeography at the Historical Sciences Seminars of the National Hellenic Research Foundation and has delivered lectures on the same topic in various Greek universities. During the past few years, he has organized two international summer schools on Greek Palaeography and Byzantine Epigraphy for the National Hellenic Research Foundation at the Monastery of Patmos.

Amalia Neocleous

PhD of Theology with Specialization in Biblical Studies

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Dr. Amalia Neocleous is a Doctor of Theology with specialization in Bible Studies. In collaboration with the Theological School of Cyprus Church, she teaches undergraduate Theology. During the years 2009-today she teaches in Secondary Education the course of Religious whenever she is needed. She is a member of the Society of Prenatal Education of Cyprus and has been a member of the Pancyprian Union of Greek Theologians. During the years of 2000-2009 she participated in various research programs in Athens. Her research work continued in Cyprus with the publication of an article in the Apostle Barnabas Magazine entitled “Fear of God”.

George Kounnoushis

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Dr. George Kounnoushis is Teaching Associate at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus. He teaches in the undergraduate program of Theology the course Sociology of Religion. At the same time he works as a Theologian in Secondary Education. He has been teaching the courses Sociology of Religion and Sociology of Christianity at the Theological School “Apostolos Barnabas” of the Church of Cyprus since 2015. In 2016-2019 he worked as a Special Scientist at the University of Cyprus in the Department of Education in the course of School Experience. He is the Director of the Foundation “Central Service of Social Solidarity Tamassos” (K.Y.K.AT.) and responsible for the social programs of the Holy Metropolis of Tamassos and Orini. He has published monographs and articles in scientific journals, collective volumes, yearbooks and theological journals in Cyprus and Greece. He has also participated as a speaker in conferences in Cyprus and abroad.

Dina Mousteri

Teaching Associate

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Dina Mousteri, (DESS University of Lyon), is a Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Supervisor and Systemic Psychotherapist registered with the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapists (UKCP). She is also a member of the following registration bodies:

European Family Therapy Association (EFTA-CIM),

Association of Family Therapists (UK)

European Association of Psychotherapists (EAP)

Taos Institute (USA) – she holds the title of Professor and Supervisor in Collaborative Dialogical Practices from Houston Galveston Institute and Taos Institute (USA).

She is a founding member of the Cyprus Society of Family Therapy (CySoFT), which she served as President 2007-2013. She was also a founding member of the Movement for Rehabilitation and Promotion of Mental Health, a founding member and first President of the Pancyprian Collective (unsure) of Organizations for Mental Health, a founding member of the Cyprus Society for Systemic Study, and a founding member of the Cyprus Society of Psychologists.

Dimitris Ierodiakonou

Teaching Associate

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Dimitris Ierodiokonou is a researcher and scholar of Byzantine and traditional music at the Holy Monastery of Kykkos. Since 2016 he collaborates with the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus for the needs of curriculum design and teaching a series of lessons on Byzantine Music Performance and Byzantine Music Hymnography. He studied Harmony at the Alexandrio Conservatory in Thessaloniki, Counterpoint at the Music College of Thessaloniki and Byzantine Music at the School of Byzantine Music of the Holy Metropolis of Thessaloniki. He has also served as a psalter for a number of years in various churches in Nicosia and Thessaloniki.