Dr Eleni Epiphaniou CPsychol

Experience

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  University of Surrey

  Oct 2007 - Jan 2009

  PhD and PG Certificate in Health Psychology Coordinated and convened the BSc in health psychology module for 3rd year undergraduate students and the M12 module (chronic conditions) for the MSc in health psychology. Did lectures for undergraduate and postgraduate psychology students, collated assessments and allocated to markers, marked essays, set exam papers, allocated to marker, fed marks to office.

  • Student

    Jan 2005 - Jan 2009

  • Part-Time academic tutor

    Oct 2007 - Jun 2008
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  King's College London

  Jan 2009 - Mar 2012

  Research Associate

  recruit and interviewed patients with cancer and other advanced illness, or patients with chronic illness, observed outpatient clinics, interviewed clinicians, analysed qualitative and quantitative data, liaised with academics and medical colleagues across the sites, trained nurses to deliver interventions, organized workshops, facilitated focus groups, reported to funders, prepared papers for publication, presented to conferences, published papers, teached MSc students

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  Queen Mary University of London

  Mar 2012 - Oct 2013

  Senior Research Assistant

  Participated in two rapid meta-reviews (one qual and one quant) and lead the systematic review on Phase IV implementation studies of the evidence of self-management support interventions in people with long term conditions to inform commissioners and healthcare providers on the evidence on what works, for whom, in what context and why

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  Intensive Care Forum

  Jan 2014 - Sept 2014

  Health Psychologist

  Responsibilities: provide psychological support to children and adolescents and also to patients and their relatives. Inform relatives about the patient’s condition, arrange family sessions with HCPs, and generally provide psychological support while the patient is in ICU. Concurrently, run with the other two psychologists the Ariadne project, recruit parents and their children in the program, offer support, evaluate the service and run the statistical analysis when the project is completed. The role also involves writing articles for the website where parents and children can turn to for more information about the project Show less

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  Department of public transport

  Jan 2015 - Jun 2018

  Consultancy and Training

  Collaboration with the Traffic Department of Cyprus Police Role: collaborating and consulting the Research and Development Department in order to implement evidence-based strategies to promote safe driving. 1. We developed a flyer around safe driving based on the Theory of Planned Behavior targeted at drivers, cyclers, pedestrians etc.. The flyer is distributed to the public.2. Provide evidence-based arguments on whether a School of Driving Offenders will be effective and also how it will be implemented (age, offences etc.). 3. With the Research and Development Department’s collaboration we run a one-week training for community police officers with the aim to introduce them to Health Psychology principles such as models and intervention development in order to use them in their practice and promote safe driving, safe social behaviour etc. 4. We are in the process of developing a ‘Breaking Bad News’ course for police officers who work in accidents in order to equip them with the skills and knowledge to break bad news to relatives whose love one just died in a car collision. Show less

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  City Unity College

  Jan 2016 - Jun 2017

  Coordinator for Psychology Department

  Main duties include working towards an effective development of the Psychology Department, managing staff responsible for different modules, ensuring that high quality services are offered to the students and that the Department complies with the legal and other obligations placed on the School. The role also includes recruiting and orienting new faculty, teaching and supervising students.

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  European University Cyprus

  Sept 2021 - now

  • Chairperson. Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences

    Sept 2024 - now

  • Assistant Professor in Health Psychology, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

    Sept 2021 - now