Georgia Z. Niolaki

Georgia Z. Niolaki, Bath Spa University

E-mail: g.niolaki@bathspa.ac.uk

Dr Georgia Niolaki is a Senior Lecturer in SpLD/Dyslexia and Inclusion at Bath Spa University and Visiting Research Associate at the Institute of Education, University of London. She is a Professional Member of the British Psychological Society, the Experimental Psychological Society and the British Dyslexia Association (she holds AMBDA and AMBDA FE/HE). She’s a Trustee of the British Dyslexia Association and the North Warwickshire & Coventry Dyslexia Association, and Deputy Adult Representative of the Local Dyslexia Association Board.

Georgia started her career working with children in primary education and assessing and supporting children with special needs. Since 2011 she’s been teaching in Higher Education, and she is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Georgia has published a number of papers in national and international journals and presented her work at many conferences. She is the Principal Investigator on educational/literacy research projects funded by several organisations, such as the BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, The British Academy.

Georgia’s mission is to support individuals who struggle with literacy and help the world become an inclusive environment for everyone!

Niolaki, G. Z., Papadimitriou, V., Terzopoulos, A. R., & Masterson, J. (2024). Greek-spelling predictors; an investigation of literacy-and cognitive-related factors. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 1-16.

Georgia Niolaki, Kate Carr-Fanning, & Aris Terzopoulos (2023). Psychology and Educational Inclusion: Identifying and supporting learners with SEN, McGraw Hill Open University Press

Niolaki, G., Negoita, A., Vousden, J., Terzopoulos, A., and Masterson, J. (2023). What spelling errors can tell us about the development of processes involved in children’s spelling. Frontiers in Psychology.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1178427

Niolaki, G., Vousden, J., Taylor L., Terzopoulos, A., Debney, L., Shepherd, D-L. and Masterson, J. (2022). Spelling predictors in a large cross-sectional study investigating the role of phonological ability and rapid naming. Learning & Instruction https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2022.101635

Spruhan, H., Niolaki, G., Vousden, J., Terzopoulos, A., & Masterson, J. (2022). Spelling performance of 6-and 8-year-old Irish children; Is it< analice> or <analyze>?. The Journal of Educational Research, 115(1), 87-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220671.2022.2031844

Marku, B., Niolaki, G., Terzopoulos A.R, Wood, C., (2022). Eastern European Parents’ Experiences of Parenting a Child with SEN in London. Educational Psychology in Practice (IF: 0.8)https://doi.org/10.1080/02667363.2022.2100320

Role in GRADIENCE: Dr. Terzopoulos and Dr. Niolaki have been integral members of the team that developed HelexKids (Terzopoulos, Duncan, Wilson, Niolaki, Masterson 2016, https://www.helexkids.org), a word frequency database derived from Greek and Cypriot school books spanning the first to the sixth grade of primary education. This database serves as a valuable resource for psycholinguistic experimental studies and educational practitioners seeking educational insights.

Their expertise extends to the Part-of-Speech (PoS) annotation of HelexKids. Additionally, they actively contribute to the creation of methods for assessing lexicostatistic noun frequencies. Furthermore, both researchers play a key role in the production of published papers, ensuring the dissemination of the project’s findings to the academic community.