Aug 2023 – Present Member of the Scientific Committee co-editing a special issue on participatory research for the journal JCPP Advances – Wiley Online Library Role: Guest Editor May 2023 – Present Member of the Scientific Committee developing the Hellenic Psychological Society Code of Human Research Ethics and Practice, Hellenic Psychological Society https://elpse.com/
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Video release for the IBSA World Games 2023 hosted by the University of Birmingham (9 August 2023): Social Inclusion of Blind and Partially Sighted Children | University of Birmingham – YouTube Press release (7 July 2023): Students with low vision may feel more socially excluded than blind or sighted peers – University of Birmingham. Manitsa,
Guest Lecturer, School of Education, University of Birmingham June 2024 (Date to be confirmed) Module title: Inclusion of children and young people with sensory impairment (MA Inclusion programme) Seminar on Vision Impairment (Title to be confirmed) Guest Lecturer, School Psychology Division of the Hellenic Psychological Society (online lecture; lecture topic has been subject to peer-reviewed
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Publications Manitsa, I., & Barlow-Brown, F. (accepted). Exploring the “interactive” hypothesis in adolescents with vision impairment: The relationship between school belonging and self-esteem. Psychology. Manitsa, I., Gregory, A., Broome, M., Marwaha, S., Bagshaw, A., & Morales-Munoz, I. (accepted). Shorter night-time sleep duration and later sleep timing from infancy to and adolescence. Journal of Child Psychology
10 BSc dissertations Kingston University London (October 2023 – Apr 2024) PS6000 – Co-Supervisor of seven BSc students working on the same research project on trust, trustworthiness and personality traits ICPS College for Humanistic Sciences (Jan 2022 – Apr 2022) Anastasios Maragkoulias, BSc Forensic Psychology (Main Supervisor) Alicia Tampakou, BSc Psychology (Main Supervisor) Vasiliki Tigkilian,
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Principal Investigator (PI), Institute for Mental Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham Co-investigators: Dr Maria Livanou (King’s College London), Dr Stephanie Burnett Heyes (University of Birmingham), Dr Fiona Barlow-Brown (Kingston University London) Tasks: setting up the research team, internal grant application, ethics application, contact with national organisations and professional services, preparation of quantitative and
Principal Investigator (PI), Institute for Mental Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham Co-investigators: Dr Fiona Barlow-Brown (Kingston University London), Dr Rachel Hewett (University of Birmingham), Dr Mhairi Thurston (Abertay University), Professor John Ravenscroft (University of Edinburgh), Dr Joao Roe (Sensory Support Service in Bristol) Tasks: setting up the research team; external grant application; ethics
Grant Reviewer for the Medical Research Foundation Medical Research Foundation | Homepage (Child and Adolescent Eye Health Research funding call) Grant Reviewer for the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) – Department of Social Sciences and Humanities Organisational structure – The Czech Science Foundation (GACR) Invited Peer Reviewer for the following journals: Journal of Health Psychology Contemporary
Associate member of the Vision Impairment Centre for Teaching and Research (VICTAR), School of Education, University of Birmingham https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/victar/index.aspx Member of the Hellenic Psychological Society https://elpse.com/ Member of the Educational Psychology Division of the Hellenic Psychological Society Member of the Developmental Psychology Division of the Hellenic Psychological Society Member of the Social Psychology Division of
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