Dr Fryni Panayidou, PhD, Research MA, BA, PGCAP, FHEA

Profile

Fryni Panayidou is the Researcher Development Adviser for Postgraduate Research Students and leads on:

• The Researcher Development Programme of courses and workshops for Postgraduate Research Students
• The PhD Support Group, co-facilitated with a Counsellor from the Advice and Counselling Service
• Wellbeing training for researchers and managers of researchers
• The 3-Minute Thesis competition
• UNIque, an online women's development programme for early career researchers
• The points-based skills development system and database (Skills Points System)
• Train the Trainer, a programme for postdocs to design and deliver training courses

Fryni’s academic background is in theoretical linguistics. After completing a Research MA in Linguistics at Utrecht University, she joined Queen Mary as a PhD student. Her PhD looked at the order of adjectives across languages, including an unwritten, endangered Arabic dialect spoken in Cyprus. Before joining the Researcher Development team, Fryni held the role of Education Adviser at Queen Mary and academic positions in Linguistics.

Research

Publications

Panayidou, Fryni and Benjamin Priest (2021) 'Enhancing postgraduate researcher wellbeing through support groups', Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education [published online on 9 Feb 2021]

Dissemination

Talks

'Supervisors and PGR Mental Health: Practising Support Skills through Role-Play' (with Benjamin Priest), UKCGE Annual Conference 2022, 30 Jun - 1 Jul 2022

'Facilitated PhD Support Groups: an effective in-person and online intervention' (with Benjamin Priest), 2nd International Conference on the Mental Health & Wellbeing of Postgraduate Researchers, 17 - 21 May 2021

'Supporting PGR mental health & wellbeing at Queen Mary University of London', Student Voice and the Co-creation of Interventions for Improving Post-Graduate Researcher Mental Health and Wellbeing, 9 December 2019

'Enhancing researcher wellbeing through support groups' (with Benjamin Priest), Researcher Education & Development Scholarship Conference 2019, 18 October 2019

'Supporting PGR wellbeing through support groups', Mini-symposium: Doctoral researcher wellbeing, Vitae Researcher Development International Conference 2019, 16 - 17 September 2019

Posters

'Supporting PGR Mental Health and Wellbeing at Queen Mary University of London', Vitae Researcher Development International Conference 2019, 16 - 17 September 2019

'Supporting PGR Mental Health and Wellbeing at Queen Mary University of London', 1st International Conference on the Mental Health & Wellbeing of Postgraduate Researchers, 16 - 17 May 2019