I am a graduate of the Department of Language and Intercultural Studies, University of Thessaly. My first language is Greek, at a very young age I started learning English and during my studies I was given the opportunity to study Spanish and Arabic (the latter of which I still study). During my studies, I also came into contact with themes such as refugee education, how our language and literacies can be used as tools for constructing, understanding and analyzing identities, and the denaturalization of concepts rooted in the collective sociopolitical consciousness for the purpose of inclusion and social justice.
After completing my studies, I had the opportunity to participate in the research group Volos Linguistic Landscape Research Diaries, through which, and with the scientific guidance of Ms. Kitsiou, I came into contact with the linguistic landscape as a research tool – particularly in the context of education, formal and informal – while I became acquainted with the research process through new, collective terms. Within the group, the process of research is enriched by personal reflections and questions. We deposit a piece of our own identity each time and the result is an amalgam of all of us.
I like to work with my hands, to knit, to embroider, to create things out of clay. I am a cinephile (when I have time) and the slowest bookworm in the world.