Dr Christiana Iordanou

Christiana completed her PhD in (Forensic) Developmental Psychology at the University of Lancaster. She has obtained postgraduate clinical training in Dramatherapy, Group Analytic Psychotherapy, and EMDR therapy and has extensive clinical experience as a practitioner psychologist/psychotherapist in numerous mental health settings.  

Christiana's research interests encompass children’s eyewitness memory. She is particularly interested in how different non-verbal interview methods (i.e. drawing, dramatisation) can facilitate young children's eyewitness accounts and how children's own internal characteristics interact with these methods to either facilitate or hinder their reports. Some research questions she has attempted to answer are:  

• Does drawing and dramatisation facilitate young children's eyewitness testimony after different time delays?
• Do children's internal characteristics (i.e. temperament, mood, symbolic ability, language ability) interact with different interview methods to facilitate their reports?
• Does the content of children's drawings involve forensically relevant information and how does that change over time?
• Do children's drawings of a past event act as memory aids of that event after a delay?
• Does drawing facilitate adults' memory of an event?
• Does social anxiety affect adolescents’ eyewitness recall?

Christiana is further interested in the effects of Covid-19-related trauma on young people’s mental health.  

• PSYC3020: Introduction to Social and Developmental Psychology  
• PSYC3050: Introduction to Psychology II
• PSYC3141: The Psychology of Successful Learning
• PSYC5280: Child Development
• PSYC8470: Forensic Cognition: Theory, Research and Practice  
• PSYC8510: Advanced Topics in Cognitive Development
• PSYC8520: Developmental Psychology in Professional Practice

• Fellow of Advance HE
• HCPC registered Art therapist (Dramatherapist)
• Co-Editor of Dramatherapy (BADTH peer reviewed journal)
• Editorial board member of Coaching: An international Journal of Theory, Research and Practice
• Reviewer for peer-reviewed journals in Psychology