Academic Qualifications

• PhD candidate

  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney

• Master in Counselling and Applied Psychotherapy,

  Jansen Newman Institute, Sydney (2019)

• Graduate Diploma in Counselling,

   Jansen Newman Institute, Sydney (2018)

• Somatic Psychotherapy Training Program,

  Institute of Somatic Psychotherapy, Sydney (2021)

• Certificate in Language Teaching

   Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney (2015)

• MPhil in Social Anthropology

  Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political

  Sciences, Athens (2008)

• Certificate in English for Academic Purposes

   Language Centre of UCL, University of London, London (2005)

• BA (Hons) in Theology

  National University of Athens, Athens (2003)

Work Experience

• Certified Practicing Counsellor (2019-currently)
• Carer Advocate, Family & Carer Mental Health Program, One Door Mental Health Organisation, Sydney (2022-currently)
• Casual Academic, School of Humanities & Languages, University of New South Wales, Sydney (2024-2025)
• Project/Research Officer, Sydney Institute for Community Languages Education, Sydney School of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney (2019-2024)
• Community Development Worker, One Door Mental Health Organisation, Sydney (2020-2022)
• Volunteer work in facilitating settlement activities for youth coming from refugee and migrant families, SydWest Multicultural Services, Sydney (2017)
• Modern Greek language teacher, ‘Aristotelis’ Community Language Schools - Sydney (2014-2018)
• Translation and editing work experience (IERA/VEVILA, Psichogios, Μyriobiblos, 2008-2011)

Publications

• Ritual Performance and Language in Modern Greek Neopaganism, in Journal for Academic Study of Religion, 2025, 38.1. https://doi.org/10.1558/jasr.31603

• Case studies: Greek, Arabic and Tamil language schools, in Community and heritage language schools: Transforming Education, 2024, pp. 293-307, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003302704

• Δυνατότητες και προκλήσεις για τη διατήρηση της ελληνικής

γλώσσας: Το πρόγραμμα του Ινστιτούτου του Σύδνεϋ για την εκπαίδευση των 

κοινοτικών γλωσσών [Opportunities and challenges in 

maintenance of the Greek language: The program of Sydney Institute for Community 

Languages Education], in Σύγχρονες πρακτικές στη διδασκαλία της ελληνικής ως δεύτερης / ξένης γλώσσας [Modern practices in teaching Greek as a second / foreign language], 2023, pp. 38-44, University of Western Macedonia / UCRI TEMENUS.

• Religion and National/Ethnic Identity in Modern Greek Society: A Study of Syncretism between Orthodoxy and Hellenism, in Modern Greek Studies: A Journal for Greek Letters, 2010 (14), pp. 195-206.

Conferences

• Social and emotional wellbeing and the prospects of renewing Modern Greek studies, ppresentation at 15th Biennial Conference - Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand & the Department of Modern Greek Studies, University of Sydney, (5-7 December 2024).

• Γλώσσα, ταυτότητα και κοινωνική ευεξία: μαθήματα για την ελληνική γλώσσα από την αναζωογόνηση των αυτόχθονων γλωσσών [Language, identity and social wellbeing: Lessons for the Greek language from the revitalisation of indigenous languages, presentation at 4th International Conference on the Hellenic Diaspora: Perspectives on the Hellenic Diaspora, Charles Darwin University, (29 June 2024). https://hellenic-diaspora.cdu.edu.au/portfolio-item/tripyllis-paraskevi/

• Getting together: Our big Greek family,presentation at International Conference on Community/Heritage Language Education, Sydney Institute for Community Languages Education, Sydney School of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney (11-13 November 2021).

Grants

• Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship Program Community Languages Multicultural Grant, Department of Home Affairs, Australian Government (January-December 2021).

Professional Memberships

• Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia - Certified Practicing Counsellor.