The Supervisory Board of UCFS consists of four (4) faculty members: the Founder and Director of the Centre, the Head of the Department of Psychology and two additional faculty members appointed by the Board of the Psychology Department responsible for supervision.
PSALTIS CHARIS, PROFESSOR PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT, UCFS DIRECTOR
Dr Charis Psaltis was born in Cyprus. He is a Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cyprus. He studied at the Pedagogical Academy of Cyprus (Teacher’s Diploma, 1993), at the University of Cyprus (Degree in Primary Education, 1999), and at Panteion University, Athens (Degree in Psychology, 2000). He followed graduate studies at the University of Cambridge (MPhil, 2001 and PhD, 2005, in Social and Developmental Psychology). He also worked as a Post-doctoral researcher at the Oxford Center for the Study of Intergroup Conflict, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. He published papers in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, Culture & Psychology, Papers on Social Representations and Human Development. His book with Zapiti, A. entitled “Interaction, Communication and Development: Psychological Development as a social Process” will be published in April 2014 by Routledge. ISBN: 0415643872.http://www.amazon.com/Charis-Psaltis/e/B00GK9PDFC. In 2014 he was invited and joined the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology. He is a founding member and president of the Cyprus Association of Social Psychology, founder and director of the Univeristy of Cyprus Centre for Field Studies and founder and co-director of the Genetic Social Psychology Lab in the Depertment of Psychology of the Univeristy of Cyprus. More
MICHAELIDES MICHALIS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT
Dr. Michalis Michaelides is an Associate Professor in Research Methodology at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cyprus since 2013. He graduated from Stanford University (PhD in Educational Psychology, MS in Statistics), Cambridge University (MPhil in Educational Research) and the University of Cyprus (BA in Education Sciences). He teaches courses in research methods, statistics, and psychometrics. In the past he has worked at The College Board, and he has taught at New York University, the European University Cyprus, and the Open University of Cyprus. He is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Testing, and Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation. His research interests include conceptions about assessment and examinations, test equating, and methodological issues in test development, adaptation, and validation. More
KADIANAKI IRINI, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT
Dr Kadianaki Irini received her first degree in Psychology at the University of Athens in 2005. She then completed an MPhil (2006) and a PhD (2010) degree in Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge in the UK, with the support of the Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and Cambridge European Trusts (Vergottis Bursary). She is on the editorial board of the journal “Culture & Psychology”. Since January 2011 she has been working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus. More
