Ampatzi Maria
Maria Ampatzi holds an MA degree in Forensic Linguistics from the Department of English Language, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, UK and a BA (Hons) in Linguistics, Literature and Spanish, from the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She holds a CELTA certificate (Cambridge University) and is a certified oral examiner for the LanguageCert Language Exams and Certifications Organisation. She has a number of diplomas in various fields such as Forensics – Judicial Psychology and Basic Principles of Criminal Investigation awarded from academic and professional bodies in Greece, Spain, and the UK. She has over 20 years of experience teaching children, adolescents and adults, in both one-on-one and classroom settings. Her main language teaching fields are ESP and EAP. She has attended national and international conferences and seminars on various topics related to language education and teaching, basic principles of criminal investigation and the use of linguistic evidence for forensic purposes. Her research interests include communication in terrorism, authentication and authorship attribution in terrorist proclamations, police questioning of vulnerable witnesses, idiolect/sociolect, as well as voice and sound analysis. She has been a member of the New York College Faculty since 2015 teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She teaches Language, Communication and Society, Applied Linguistics, Translation Principles and Strategies, and Forensic Linguistics on the BA (Hons) English and English Language Teaching Programme of the University of Greenwich. She also supervises dissertations and runs the Academic Research and Writing Office of New York College, Thessaloniki Campus.