Sophia Diamantopoulou

  • Qualifications and position:
    • BA Archaeology and History of Art, Athens / MA in Museum Studies, UCL
    • Research Officer
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
  • Summary:
    • Learning in museums and heritage sites
      Children's literacy in museums and galleries
      Community Languages
      Research Methods in Education/ Multimodality, Social Semiotics, Discourse Analysis

      Member of the Centre for Multimodal Research at the Institute of Education, London
  • Teaching:
    • Course co-ordinator for the Doctoral School course:'Discourse Analysis: Multimodal Perspectives' ( 2009-10/2010-11)

      Doctoral School courses: 'Studies in representation and communication: An introduction to a multimodal social semiotic perspective' (2007-8/ 2008-9) and 'Analyzing multimodal data' (2009-10/2010-11)(both run with Dr D. Mavers) )

      Facilitator for the CDR (Conceptualising and Designing Research) course co-ordinated by Dr Swain (2010-11)
  • Research Projects:
    • 1. Research Officer for the Impact Assessment project of Parliament Education Services, run by Dr K.Burn.

      2. Researcher on 'The Museum, the Education and the Visitors' project of the Centre for Multimodal Resarch ( funded by the Swedish Research Council) 2007-now

      3. Research co-ordinator for the 'Ideas Factory Action Research Project' of Tate Britain (funded by Tate & Lyle) 2006-7

      4. Research assistant in 'Training Teachers to Work in Urban Schools', and 'Urban Initial Teacher Training: Working with Urban Schools in Challenging Contexts', both directed by A. Ash and D. Hall and funded by the Teacher Training Agency

      5. Research assistant in 'Enquire: Critical Minds' Project, directed by N. Addison and L. Burgess

  • Professional Activities:
    • Member of the Centre for Multimodal Research, IOE and co-organiser of the two international Multimodality conferences at IOE (2008, 2010)

      Co-ordinator of the Postgraduate Visual and Multimodal Forum of the Centre for Multimodal Research. (CMR)
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • 'Children's multimodal representations of an archaeological site: A point of reference in the development of pedagogies for history teaching'. Materiality, Memory and Cultural Heritage Conference, Istanbul (25-29 May 2011)

      'Recognition: A fundamental issue in thinking about learning', (co-presented with J.Bezemer & G.Kress). 'Celebrating community Celebrating learning'- Learning and Teaching Conference, Institute of Education, London (1 April 2011)

      'Movement and Space', A pre-conference multimodal analysis master class (co-presented with G.Kress) Multimodality and Learning conference, Institute of Education (5 July 2010)

      'The museum exhibition as a multimodal design for learning: Instances of multimodal discourse analysis of exhibits at the Museum of London', Lecture at the Visual and Multimodal Research Forum, Centre for Multimodal Research, Institute of Education, (20th April 2010)

      'Designing learning in an archaeological site: Pupil's multimodal production of visual ensembles', 2nd International Conference- Designs for Learning: Towards a new conceptualisation of learning, University of Stockholm (17-19 March 2010)
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • Greece and Turkey (Museum Education/ Designs for learning in the heritage sector)
  • Languages Spoken:
    • Greek (native)
      Turkish (intermediate)
  • Languages Written:
    • Greek (native)
      Turkish (intermediate)
 

Contact details

Contact details

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  • Address:
  • Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
    Institute of Education
    University of London
    20 Bedford Way, London
    WC1H 0AL

Publications

  • Diamantopoulou, S., Insulander, E., & F.Lindstrand (Eds). (2012) The Escape of the Object: Museums and Cultures of Meaning Making. (forthcoming).
  • Bezemer, J., S.Diamantopoulou, Jewitt, C., G.Kress and D. Mavers 'A social semiotic perspective on learning: Engagement, multimodality and agency in a changing world' (forthcoming book chapter).
  • Diamantopoulou, S. (2008) Tate Britain's Ideas Factory Action Research Project Report: A Multimodal Approach to its Impact on Children's Literacy. Tate Britain.
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  • Diamantopoulou, S. (2008) 'Learning on archaeological sites: A multimodal social semiotic approach', Hermes: Journal of Language and Communication Studies, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark 41, 81-105.
  • Diamantopoulou,S (2007) Tate Britain: Ideas Factory action research project. London Digest: Multilingual Learners in London, Issue 1, London Education Research Unit, Institute of Education..
  • Hall, D., Ash, A., Raffo, C., Diamantopoulou,S., & Jones, L. (2005) Training Teachers to Work in Urban Schools. Teacher Training Agency Research & Development Award Report (RDA 24). TDA Internet Publication. http://www.ttrb.ac.uk/viewArticle.aspx?contentId=12013.
  • Ash, A., Hall, D., Raffo, C., Diamantopoulou, D., &  Jones, L. (2006) Urban Initial Teacher Training: Working with Urban Schools in Challenging Contexts. . London: Institute of Education.