Dr Aris Terzopoulos

Lecturer in Psychology

School of Social Sciences

Email:: Aris.Terzopoulos@bcu.ac.uk

Aris started his career teaching children in primary education and assessing and supporting children with special educational needs. In order to improve his impact on students, he completed an MA in Literacy Development and Literacy Difficulties at the Institute and Education in London.

He was then granted full PhD studentship for his research project on language cognitive representations of bilingual children and adults at the University of Dundee where he started his career as a Lecturer in Psychology. In 2016 he started working at Coventry University, first as a Lecturer in Early Childhood Development and then as Lecturer in Psychology.

Meanwhile, Aris completed the MSc in Psychology at University of Derby and since March 2021 he works for Birmingham City University. Aris is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, enjoys teaching using new technologies and is inspired by open access research, values of inclusion and equal opportunities and de-colonisation of the curriculum.

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Niolaki, G. Z, Terzopoulos A.R., Vousden, J., Taylor, L., Hall, S., and Masterson, J. (2020). Predictors of single word spelling in English- speaking children: A cross-sectional study, Journal of Research in Reading DOI: 10.1111/1467-9817.12330

Niolaki, G. Z, Terzopoulos A.R., Vousden, J., Taylor, L., Masterson, J.(2020). A linguistic awareness intervention targeting spelling and written expression in a developmental phonological dyslexic child. Journal of Preschool and Primary Education

Niolaki, G. Z, Terzopoulos A.R., Masterson, J. (2020) Intervention for a Visual Attention Span Processing Deficit in a Greek-Speaking Child with Slow Reading Speed, Journal of Preschool and Primary Education

Georgia Z. Niolaki, Terzopoulos A.R.,, Laura Taylor, Rachael Davies (2020). Literacy difficulties in Higher Education; identifying students’ needs with a Hybrid Model, Educational and Child Psychology (special issue: Working with young people aged 16-25), 37(2)

Terzopoulos A.R., Niolaki, G. Z., & Masterson, J. (2018). Intervention for a lexical reading and spelling difficulty in two Greek-speaking primary age children. Neuropsychological rehabilitation, 1-22.10.1080/09602011.2018.1467330

Terzopoulos, A.R., Duncan, L.G., Wilson, M.A.J., Niolaki, G.Z. & Masterson, J. (2016). HelexKids: A word frequency database for Greek and Cypriot primary school children. Behaviour Research Methods, 1-14. doi: 10.3758/s13428-015-0698-5.

Niolaki, G.Z., Terzopoulos, A. and Masterson, J., (2015). A sublexical raining training study for spelling in a literate
Greek- and English- speaking child. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. doi:10.1080/09602011.2015.1105825

Niolaki, G.Z., Masterson, J. & Terzopoulos, A.R. (2014). Spelling improvement through letter sound and whole word training in two multilingual Greek-and English-speaking children. Multilingual Education, 4, 1-23. doi.org/10.1186/s13616-014-0020-3

Niolaki, G.Z., Terzopoulos, A.R., Masterson, J. & (2014). Varieties of Developmental Dyslexia in Greek children. Writing Systems Research, 6, 230-256.