In her role as Academic Assistant, Despoina Livieratou leads on the External Assessment process of competition processing, in liaison with academic colleagues.

Despoina was previously the Academic and Administrative Assistant from November 2021 until September 2024. She left her full-time position at the ISRF to take up a role Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner at University College London and NHS Hillingdon Trust.

Despoina holds an MSc in History and Philosophy of Science, from UCL, and an MSc in Psychology - accredited by the British Psychological Society - from Birkbeck, University of London. Her academic interests include Aristotle’s philosophy and theory of mind and the History of Psychology.