Staff profile

I hold a BA in Classics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an MSc in Educational Sciences, specialising in ICT in Education and Lifelong Learning, from the University of Macedonia. I began my PhD at Durham University in October 2026, supported by a Durham Transformative Humanities Doctoral Studentship. My research is supervised by Dr Thea Sommerschield in the Department of Classics and Ancient History and Dr Cristina Costa in the School of Education. I have taught in independent schools in Greece and have collaborated with schools, museums and universities in Greece and the UK on the use of socially assistive robots in Greek language teaching.

Phd project

My PhD is a Digital Classics project exploring anthropomorphism and how secondary school students understand voice, agency and authority in classical texts and conversations with large language models (LLMs). Through close readings of selected ancient texts and AI-generated dialogues, I will use Freirean culture circles with pupils in England and Greece to examine how they interpret human-like qualities in non-human voices. The project aims to support critical AI literacy by creating space for young people to question how language shapes their perceptions of AI and the trust they place in it.

• Digital Classics
• Classical language teaching and learning
• Critical AI literacy in education
• Socially assistive robots in language learning