Dr. Ria Vaportzis
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Biography
I hold an Honours in Psychology from the University of Melbourne, and a PhD in Psychologyfrom Monash University. My PhD thesis investigated dual-tasking in healthyageing and Huntington's disease.While doing my PhD, I worked as a teaching associateat Monash. Upon completion of my studies, I stayed at Monash and was involvedin three multinational clinical studies in Huntington’s disease.
In 2014, I gotmy first job as a postdoctoral researcher at Heriot-Watt University. Myproject, Tablet for Healthy Ageing, investigated the potential of tabletcomputers to improve the health and wellbeing in older adults.
Following the Tablet for Healthy Ageing project,I was a Research Co-Investigator on a Velux Stiftung funded project, The InterventionFactory (also at Heriot-Watt). The Intervention Factory, consideredcommunity-based activities (e.g., computers, physical activity, handicraft,languages) as potential interventions for cognitive ageing.
I joined the Psychologyteam at the University of Bradford in 2018. I led the Back Onside project that aimed to improve health outcomes in vulnerable people through physical activity (funded by UKRI HEIF). I am currently involved in two projects - one as principal investigator - that investigate perspectives of services users and clinicians on electronic mental health records (funded by UKRI Brad-ATTAIN and NIHR).
In addition to mypsychology qualifications, I hold qualifications in languages, sportsjournalism, personal training, and dancing.
Research
Mymain research interests lie within the broad field of cognitivepsychology. I am particularly interested in interventions that may improvecognition, mental health, quality of life and wellbeing of older adults to help them liveindependently for longer.Research projects
| Role | Date | Title/description | Funder | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CoI | 2020-05-04T00:00:00 | |||
| PI | 2021-03-01T00:00:00 | |||
| CoI | 2021-03-15T00:00:00 | |||
| CoI | 2022-06-01T00:00:00 | |||
| PI | 2023-01-02T00:00:00 |
Teaching
Details on teaching interests, highlights and modules are available for Dr. Ria Vaportzis as follows:
Teaching interests
I am the module leader for Conceptual Issues in Psychology and Mental Health (PSY4012), Cognitive Psychology and Psychobiology (PSY5018), Forensic Psychology (PSY6001) and Sandwich Year - Study Abroad Experience (PSY5000-Z)PhD students
2024. Rosemary Awele Ebigwei Omeda. Rumination, worryand self-esteem as factors in depression and anxiety among hypertensive patientsin Nigeria. Principal supervisor.
2023. Ammarah Ikram. Perspectives of minority ethnic groups on OpenNotesfor mental health. Principal supervisor.
2023. Danielle Wood. A psychometric measure for eating behaviour. Associate supervisor.
2022. Andrew Smith. Mental health and running. Principal supervisor.
Teaching modules
| Title | Subject | Module code | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandwich Year - Study Abroad Experience | |||
| Conceptual Issues in Psychology and Mental Health | |||
| Forensic Psychology |
Professional activities
Information about education, employment and areas of particular interest for Dr. Ria Vaportzis is as follows:
Employment
- Heriot Watt University - Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the year 2014 (specified as 24/11/2014)
- Monash University - Research Assistant in the year 2013 (specified as 25/11/2013)
- University of Bradford - Assistant Professor in the year 2018 (specified as 10/12/2018)
Education
- University of Melbourne - BA(Hons in Psychology - 1st Class)
- Monash University - PhD (Psychology)
Publications
There are 31 publications involving or that are attributed to Dr. Ria Vaportzis. They are listed as:
- abstract (7)
- electronic publication (1)
- other journal (1)
- peer reviewed journal (21)
- reviews (1)
Abstract
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The type of concurrent task affects dual-task performance in Huntington’s disease | 2014 | 85(Suppl 1) | Vaportzis, E; Georgiou-Karistianis, N; Churchyard, A; Stout, JC | ||||||||
| Dual task performance in Huntington's disease using cancellation and auditory tasks | 2012 | Vaportzis, E; Georgiou-Karistianis, N; Churchyard, A; Stout, JC | |||||||||
| Dual task performance in Huntington's disease: Comparing choice reaction time tasks | 2012 | Vaportzis, E; Georgiou-Karistianis, N; Churchyard, A; Stout, JC | |||||||||
| The effects of Huntington’s disease and task difficulty on dual-task performance | 2011 | Vaportzis, E; Georgiou-Karistianis, N; Churchyard, A; Stout, JC | |||||||||
| What keeps you sharp? People’s views about preserving thinking skills in old age | 2019 | Niechcial, MA; Vaportzis, E; Gow, AJ | |||||||||
| The type of concurrent task affects dual-task performance in Huntington's disease | 2014 | Vaportzis, Ria; Georgiou-Karistianis, N.; Churchyard, A.; Stout, J.C. | |||||||||
| What keeps you sharp? People's views about preserving thinking skills in old age | 2019 | Niechcial, M.A.; Vaportzis, Ria; Gow, A.J. |
Electronic Publication
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Increasing the discoverability on non-English language research papers: a reverse-engineering application of the pitching research template | 2017 | Faff, R.W.; Shao, X.; Alqahtani, F.; Atif, M.; Bialek-Jaworska, A.; Chen, A.; Duppati, G.; Escobar, M.; Finta, M.A.; Jeny, A.; Li, Y.; Machado, M.A.V.; Nishi, T.; Nguyen, B.; Noh, J-E.; Reichenecker, J-A.; Sakawa, H.; Vaportzis, Ria; Widyawati, L.; Wijayana, S.; Wijesooriya, C.; Ye, Q.; Zhou, Q. | SSRN/Elsevier | https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2948707 |
Other Journal
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pitching non-English language research: A dual-language application of the Pitching Research Framework | 2018 | Faff, R; Shao, X; Alqahtani, F; Atif, M; Bialek-Jaworska, A; Chen, A; Duppati, G; Escobar, M; Finta, F; Jeny, A; Li, Y; Machado, M; Nishi, T; Nguyen, B; Noh, J-E; Reichenecker, J-A; Sakawa, H; Vaportzis, E; Widyawati, L; Wijayana, S; Wijesooriya, C; Ye, G; Zhou, C | Accounting and Management Information Systems |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of real-world interventions for cognitive ageing in healthy older adults | 2019 | Ageing Research Reviews | 29 | Vaportzis, E; Niechcial, MA; Gow, AJ | 10.1016/j.arr.2019.01.006 | ||||||
| Older adults’ attitudes about learning tablet computers: Post-intervention focus groups | 2018 | Frontiers in Psychology | 9 | Vaportzis, E; Giatsi Clausen, M; Gow, AJ | |||||||
| People’s beliefs and expectations about how cognitive skills change with age: Evidence from a UK-wide aging survey | 2018 | American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry | 26 | Vaportzis, E; Gow, AJ | |||||||
| Older adults perceptions of technology and barriers to interacting with tablet computers: A focus group study | 2017 | Frontiers in Psychology | 8 | Vaportzis, E; Giatsi Clausen, M; Gow, AJ | |||||||
| A Tablet for Healthy Ageing: The effect of a tablet computer training intervention on cognitive abilities in older adults | 2017 | The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry | 25 | Vaportzis, E; Martin, M; Gow, AJ | |||||||
| Dual task performance in Huntington’s disease: A comparison of choice reaction time tasks | 2015 | Journal of Neuropsychology | 29 | Vaportzis, E; Georgiou-Karistianis, N; Churchyard, A; Stout, JC | |||||||
| Dual task performance may be a better measure of cognitive processing in Huntington’s disease than traditional attention tests | 2015 | Journal Of Huntington'S Disease | 4 | Vaportzis, E; Georgiou-Karistianis, N; Churchyard, A; Stout, JC | |||||||
| Effects of task difficulty during dual-task circle tracing in Huntington’s disease | 2015 | Journal of Neurology | 262 | Vaportzis, E; Georgiou-Karistianis, N; Churchyard, A; Stout, JC | |||||||
| Age and task difficulty differences on dual tasking using circle tracing and serial subtraction tasks | 2014 | Aging - Clinical and Experimental Research | 26 | Vaportzis, E; Georgiou-Karistianis, N; Stout, JC | |||||||
| Dual task performance in normal aging: A comparison of choice reaction time tasks | 2013 | PLoS ONE | 8 | e60265 | Vaportzis, E; Georgiou-Karistianis, N; Stout, JC | ||||||
| People's beliefs and expectations about how cognitive skills change with age: evidence from a U.K.-wide aging survey | 2018 | Vaportzis, Ria; Gow, A.J. | |||||||||
| Pitching non-English language research: a dual-language application of the Pitching Research Framework | 2018 | Faff, R.; Shao, X.; Alqahtani, F.; Atif, M.; Bialek-Jaworska, A.; Chen, A.; Duppati, G.; Escobar, M.; Finta, M.; Jeny, A.; Li, Y.; Machado, M.; Nishi, T.; Nguyen, B.; Noh, J-E.; Reichenecker, J-A.; Sakawa, H.; Vaportzis, Ria; Widyawati, L.; Wijayana, S.; Wijesooriya, C.; Ye, G.; Zhou, C. | |||||||||
| Older adults perceptions of technology and barriers to interacting with tablet computers: a focus group study | 2017 | Vaportzis, Ria; Clausen, M.G.; Gow, A.J. | |||||||||
| A tablet for healthy ageing: the effect of a tablet computer training intervention on cognitive abilities in older adults | 2017 | Vaportzis, Ria; Martin, M.; Gow, A.J. | |||||||||
| Dual task performance in Huntington's disease: a comparison of choice reaction time tasks | 2015 | Vaportzis, Ria; Georgiou-Karistianis, N.; Churchyard, A.; Stout, J.C. | |||||||||
| Dual task performance may be a better measure of cognitive processing in Huntington's disease than traditional attention tests | 2015 | Vaportzis, Ria; Georgiou-Karistianis, N.; Churchyard, A.; Stout, J.C. | |||||||||
| Effects of task difficulty during dual-task circle tracing in Huntington's disease | 2015 | Vaportzis, Ria; Georgiou-Karistianis, N.; Churchyard, A.; Stout, J.C. | |||||||||
| A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of real-world interventions for cognitive ageing in healthy older adults | 2019 | Vaportzis, Ria; Niechcial, M.A.; Gow, A.J. | |||||||||
| Older adults experiences of learning to use tablet computers: a mixed methods study | 2018 | Vaportzis, Ria; Clausen, M.G.; Gow, A.J. | |||||||||
| Age and task difficulty differences in dual tasking using circle tracing and serial subtraction tasks | 2014 | Vaportzis, Ria; Georgiou-Karistianis, N.; Stout, J.C. | |||||||||
| People’s views on preserving thinking skills in old age | 2019 | Educational Gerontology | 45 | 341 - 352 | Niechcial M.;Vaportzis E.;Gow A. | 0360-1277 | 10.1080/03601277.2019.1627054 |
Reviews
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investigating associations between personality and the efficacy of interventions for cognitive ageing: A systematic review | 2020 | Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics | 87 | Marr C.;Vaportzis E.;Dewar M.;Gow A. | 0167-4943 | 10.1016/j.archger.2019.103992 |