Dr. Eleni (Elina) Michopoulou

Associate Professor in Business Management

University of Derby

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Senior Lecturer in Business Management

University of Derby

 

• Programme Leader for MSc International Hospitality Management and MSc Tourism Management

• Design and deliver innovative, high quality and challenging learning experiences.

• Supervise individual and group based student activities, e.g. dissertations, industrial placements, work based projects.

• Coordinate collaborative provisions nationally and overseas.

• Identify and conduct research and scholarly activity which is relevant to the lecturing role, integrate research into teaching and learning.

• Identify opportunities for income generation and/or entrepreneurialism through research, consultancy or professional practice.

 

 

 

Lecturer in Business Management

University of Derby

 

• Plan, prepare and deliver modules within designed programmes at all levels in accordance with defined curricula.

• Provide support, guidance and tutorship for groups and for individuals

• Contribute to the design and development of innovative learning and teaching methods and programmes

• Design, develop and lead a number of modules and for varying class sizes (ranging from 20 to 150 students)

• Supervise undergraduate and postgraduate projects and dissertations

• Set and mark exams and coursework and provide feedback and guidance to students

 

 

 

Lecturer in Tourism Management

West London College

 

• Deliver properly prepared lectures and tutorials, in accordance with the relevant syllabus

• Design, prepare and develop teaching materials such as class handouts and PowerPoint presentations

• Prepare and mark assignments during the semester

 

 

 

Associate lecturer / Postgraduate demonstrator

University of Surrey

 

• Deliver lectures and tutorials, in accordance with the relevant syllabus

• Design, prepare and develop teaching materials such as class handouts and PowerPoint presentations

• Prepare and mark assignments during the semester

• Encouraged and monitored use of an e-portfolio system (Pebblepad). Students using Pebblepad are enabled to create personal presentational portfolios (Webfolios) that have the look and feel of a website but aggregate content from user generated components (that may refer to evidence of achievements, personal development  and competency skills).

• Provision of feedback in electronic form through the use of the official e-learning platform (ULearn) used by the University of Surrey

• Assessment and evaluation of activities performed on Pebblepad

 

 

 

Research Officer in e-Tourism Application Development and Evaluation

 

University of Surrey (Member of a consortium numbering 11 project partners)

Project: OSSATE (One-Stop-Shop for Accessible Tourism in Europe), funded by the eContent programme of the European Commission

 

 

Project Management

• Create  and manage Timesheets of the research team

• Produce project partner bi-monthly and quarterly activity reports

• Liaise with Finance Team to prepare Cost Statements

• Update and maintain Stakeholders Database

• Document and report project awareness and dissemination activities

 

 

Research Activities

• Secondary research on user requirements for eTourism (for people with disabilities)

• Research on Accessible Tourism Information Schemes in Europe

• Report on Accessible Tourism Supply in Europe

• Research on End-User and External Stakeholder Requirements

• Liaison with IS designers to specify, design and build the working demonstrator of the e-Service and the web portal.

• Design and create the action plan for the Assessment and Evaluation Workpackage

• Undertake an Evaluation and Assessment of the OSSATE products and services by both the End User Community and Project stakeholders

• Produced 4 Deliverables and contributed to many other

 

 

 

 

Food Service Manager

Olympic Games Organizing Committee Athens 2004

 

Project Management

• Definition of the information flows so as to ensure accurate, timely and effective communication between the various stakeholders

• Financial Management (Budget Allocation and reporting)

• Conflict resolution between Sponsors/Caterer/Organizing Committee

 

Operations Management

• Suppliers / Sponsors (Order  placement, type of product requirements specification, product quality assurance, logistics)

• Caterer (Distribution methods designation, quality of service assurance, operations  management and planning)

• Customers (clarification of needs for  5 different customer groups, customer satisfaction measurement, problem solving)

• Employees (supervising 201 employees)

 

 

 

Job Rotation -  Reception

Xenonas Chrysa, Kalavryta Greece

 

• Reservations

• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

• Housekeeping

 

 

 

Ski Instructor

 

“Doukas”, Private School

Coordinator of a team of instructors responsible for children 6-12 years old 

 

“Klaoudatos”, Ski School

Ski Instructor (Teaching people of all ages and of all levels)