- Zones of Educational Priority
- The cultural "other" and the role of education
- NΕΕTS
- School and LLL institutions dropout
- Resaearch methods in social sciences
1) The maintenance and use of immigrant languages within the Greek diaspora and the Greek educational and social context
2) Bilingualism and education (focusing on educational practices on a preschool and primary school level)
3) Issues of translanguaging and educational applications
4) Teaching of Greek as a second language
5) The teaching and learning of Chinese by Greek and English-speaking students
Since 2009 she has been the coordinator of Polydromo Group for bilingualism and multiculturalism in education and society (http://polydromo.web.auth.gr/index.php/en/) researching various aspect of language contact and learning.
She participates in the research programme Migrant, “Investigation of adolescent digital literacy practices for the design of Modern Greek Language teaching to youth of new migration background” for the period 01/2020-06/2023, which is coordinated by prof Dimitris Koutsogiannis and in which, apart from AUTh, the University of Hamburg and Macquarie University (Australia) are participants.
Since 2020, as the director of the Confucius Institute of AUTh (http://confucius-institute.web.auth.gr/en/) she supervises its projects and researches the contact between Chinese and Greek and the teaching approaches that promote the learning of Chinese for speakers of Greek.
Her current interests are focused on design, development and evaluation of educational projects for adults, face to face and e-learning, as well as the group dynamics in an online environment and the appropriate use of communication and colaborative tools in order to promote interaction in an online environment.