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      Dr Anna Charalambidou

      BA, MA, PhD, PGCertHE
      ROLE: Senior Lecturer in English Language
      DEPARTMENT: Media
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 4345
      EMAIL: A.Charalambidou@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        I am Programme Leader for BA English and Senior Lecturer in English Language, at the Media Department of Middlesex University. Before moving to Middlesex in 2015, I worked at the European University of Cyprus, University of Surrey, Swansea University and King's College London.

        My research interests are in discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. I have mainly worked with Greek Cypriot data, yet my work and publications are not positioned solely within Cypriot and Greek Studies but also in the broader fields of interactional approaches to language and identities research, and especially language and ageing. My current research, in collaboration with Petros Karatsareas, documents ‘Grenglish’ the emblematic variety that London’s Greek Cypriots borrowed from English and adapted into the Cypriot Greek phonological and grammatical system.

        I convene the bi-weekly Language and Communication research seminars series.

        Qualifications:

        • PGCert in Higher Education: Teaching and Supporting Learning (2016), Middlesex
        • PhD in Language, Discourse and Communication (2012), King's College London
        • MA in Modern Greek Studies (sociolinguistics and literature) (2006), King's College London
        • BA in Greek Philology (2005), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

        Languages Spoken

        Cypriot Greek, Standard Modern Greek, English, Spanish

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        I coordinate and teach a number of undergraduate modules in English Language and Linguistics including, for 2019-20:

        • ENG1001 Global Englishes;
        • ENG2001 Language and Identities;
        • ENG3000 Independent project;
        • ENG3001 Teaching Englishes;
        • ENG3006 Work Placement.

        I currently co-supervise four PhD candidates, who work on the following topics:

        • Multilingual practices in a Japanese Supplementary School in London;
        • Understanding and Teaching Idioms: A Culture-Based strategy;
        • Thai and Malay university students’ strategies for making request in English.

        I welcome enquires from prospective PhD students on ageing, discourse and identities, and talk-in-interaction.

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        My research interests include:

        • Discourse and Identities
        • Social Ageing
        • Ethnomethodology (Conversation Analysis & Membership Categorisation Analysis)

        Publication Feed

        Tradition, authenticity and expertise in and through Cypriot Easter flaounes

        Charalambidou, Anna (2020) Tradition, authenticity and expertise in and through Cypriot Easter flaounes. Food & History , 17 (2). ISSN 1780-3187 (Accepted/In press)

        Repairs and old-age categorisations: interactional and categorisation analysis

        Charalambidou, Anna (2019) Repairs and old-age categorisations: interactional and categorisation analysis. Linguistics Vanguard: A Multimodal Journal for the Language Sciences , 5 (s2). ISSN 2199-174X (Published online first)

        Terms of address in peer interactions of older women

        Charalambidou, Anna (2019) Terms of address in peer interactions of older women. In: 4th Corpora for Language and Aging Research conference (CLARe 4), 27 Feb - 01 Mar 2019, University of Helsinki, Helsinki.

        The normality and expectedness of ill health in later life: Painful tellings

        Charalambidou, Anna (2018) The normality and expectedness of ill health in later life: Painful tellings. In: 5th International Conference of Conversation Analysis (ICCA-18), 11-15 Jul 2018, Loughborough University.

        An exploration of the sub-register of chemical engineering research papers published in English

        Zacharof, Myrto-Panagiota and Charalambidou, Anna (2018) An exploration of the sub-register of chemical engineering research papers published in English. Publications , 6 (3). ISSN 2304-6775

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

        To date, I have been awarded a total of £126.721 research and knowledge transfer awards for individual and mainly collaborative but also individual projects, including:

        Diversity that we can hear

        I am the Principal Investigator working with colleagues from Middlesex, Northumbria and York on a project entitled 'Diversity that we can hear'. This research aims to analyse tutors’ awareness and perceptions of issues around accent diversity (whether regional, global or second language) in the secondary and university classroom in the UK and whether and how accent diversity affects their teaching practices and curriculum design.

        The Grenglish Project

        I am currently working on a community engagement project: The Grenglish project, with Dr Petros Karatsareas (Westminster). Like many other community languages that were transplanted from their places of origin to London as a result of migration, Cypriot Greek developed in a unique way in the British capital including through the borrowing of a host of English words and their incorporation into the Cypriot Greek grammatical system. These words came to be collectively recognised as a new linguistic variety labelled ‘Grenglish’, unique to London’s Cypriot Greek speakers. We are capturing the Grenglish lexical stock in a way that involves the community and creates impact through a permanent record of its linguistic history (including a print dictionary). Our website asks Grenglish speakers to upload Grenglish words; their form; their meaning; visual material; stories that involve the use of Grenglish; thoughts about their origin.

        You can follow the project on twitter @GrenglishProj.

        Consuming Authenticities: Time, Place and the Past in the Construction of "Authentic" Foods and Drinks

        I was a co-investigator at the 'Consuming Authenticities: Time, Place and the Past in the Construction of "Authentic" Foods and Drinks' project, sponsored by the AHRC - Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past (£54,753). An outcome of this project is the general audience book: Abbots, E. J., Charalambidou, A. Martins A. and Toner, D. (2015) Authentic Recipes from Around the World. Ceredigion, Wales: HAT Events. ISBN 978 0956255396

        It addressed the temporal relationships and ideas that contribute to the construction of narratives of authenticity in relation to four foods and drinks: pulque (an alcoholic drink from Central Mexico), flaounes (celebration Easter pies from Cyprus), Welsh craft cider and acarajé (a street snack from Brazil).

        For more information, please check the project's website and blog

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        School Partnerships

        I am keen to forge partnerships and community engagement programmes between Middelsex and schools and colleges. I coordinated a partnership between Middlesex and Haringey Sixth Form College. Middlesex English students mentored students from Haringey College and together they coproduced the 2018 volume of the magazine and blog 'Haringey Unchained', which bring out the critical and creative consciousness of a vibrant college and diverse university. Email me for a copy of the magazine.

        Blog for sharing ideas about English: London English

        Membership of learned societies:

        • BAAL Multilingualism Special interest group (since 2018)
        • European Communication and Education association (since 2018)
        • European Society for the Study of English (since 2015)
        • University English (since 2015)
        • Cyprus Linguistics Society (since 2012)
        • International Pragmatics Association (since 2010)
        • European Society of Modern Greek Studies (since 2009)
        • Society of Modern Greek Studies, UK (since 2005)

        Public talks and refereed conference presentations (since 2013):

        • Feb 2019, ‘Terms of address in peer interactions of Greek Cypriot older women’. Presentation at the 4th Corpora for Language and Aging Research conference (CLARe 4), University of Helsinki.
        • Feb 2019, ‘Old-age talk & cross-generational communication’. Invited public talk at Goldsmiths University, part of GoldLingS Seminar series.
        • July 2018, ‘The normality and expectedness of ill health in later life: Painful tellings’. Presentation at the 5th International Conference of Conversation Analysis (ICCA-18), Loughborough University.
        • Dec 2017, 'Diversity that we can hear: accent variation in the HE curriculum’. Presentation at Developing Pathways to Impact: A Training Workshop for Early Career Researchers in Bi-/Multilingualism and Education, Westminster.
        • July 2017, '(Old) age identities in everyday conversations of Greek Cypriot women'. Paper presented at the 15th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2017), Belfast.
        • Dec 2016, ‘Selling the Past – Securing the Future?’, with Deborah Toner, Emma-Jayne Abbots and Ana Martins. Panel session at Past Matters, Research Futures: AHRC Care for the Future ECR Conference, Royal Society, London.
        • Mar 2016, ‘Embedding Employability in English Programmes’, with Billy Clark and Sylvia Shaw. HEA's annual Arts and Humanities conference: Inspire - sharing great practice in Arts and Humanities teaching and learning, Brighton.
        • Dec 2015, '(Old) age identities in conversational interaction'. Invited public talk at Westminster University.
        • Sept 2014, 'The construction of culinary expert through recipe tellings among older Greek Cypriot women'. Paper to be presented at the Symposium on Greek language and spoken communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
        • Mar 2014, 'Language, age and register variation in the Cypriot Greek dialect'. Invited public talk at King's College London.
        • Jun 2013, 'Emblematic uses of code-switching and age categorisations'. Paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Greek Research and the 2nd International Conference on Ageing in a Foreign Land, Flinders University, Adelaide.
        • Jun 2013, 'Pitching research to specific audience: Lexical choices in different types of peer-reviewed journals'. Paper presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Discourse Analysis, University of Santiago de Compostela.

        I tweet @DrAnnaMDX

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