Dara Nikolova

Event Officer at Cultured Minds
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United Kingdom, GB
Languages
  • Bulgarian Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Italian Full professional proficiency
  • Spanish Elementary proficiency

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Experience

    • Non-profit Organization Management
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Event Officer
      • Feb 2022 - Present

      Cultured Minds is a student-led project at University College London exploring the interrelationship between mental health and culture by increasing beneficiaries’ cross-cultural sensitivity on how mental health is perceived in various countries/regions across the world.My duties involve planning and hosting livestreams, discussion forums and workshops aiming to: - Encourage beneficiaries to share how mental health is perceived in their respective countries/regions and how the situation could be improved - Share culture-specific stigma (e.g., linguistic, social or philosophical) associated with mental health to enhance cultural literacy amongst beneficiaries - Empower beneficiaries from various cultural backgrounds by introducing culture-specific mental health resources and promoting ways to destigmatise mental health

    • South Korea
    • Construction
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Research Assistant
      • Feb 2022 - Mar 2022

      UCL Division of Psychology and Language SciencesI assisted with the selection of experimental stimuli, experimental setup, data collection and data analysis for a replication study under the supervision of Professor Daniel Richardson. The study investigated whether people's engagement with various types of entertainment can be captured by measuring people's physiological responses while consuming various types of entertainment, and measuring the degree to which they are synchronized. While the participants watched movie trailers, adverts and campaign videos, we measured their body temperature, heart rate and skin conductance with Emotibit finger sensors, and calculated the physiological synchrony (PS) between participants using a technique called cross-recurrence quantification analysis.

    • United Kingdom
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Volunteer Coach
      • Jan 2022 - Mar 2022

      KEEN London is a charity that provides free and highly sought after, one-to-one support at free weekly sports and activity sessions for children with additional needs or disabilities. At the sessions, each child is paired with a trained volunteer coach for individual support. This means children benefit from one-to-one attention and care and their parents can leave them in a secure and safe environment.My responsibilities involved:- Providing one-to-one tailored support to children with a wide range of additional needs, including autism, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, and global development delay at the charity's weekly sessions- Helping children access and engage with all the activities and games on offer - Supporting children to achieve their personal development goals by helping the session coordinators develop their goals, tracking the children's progress, and giving them encouragement along the way- Collaborating with the other coaches to come up with creative ways of engaging with the children by developing resources and planning a wide range of playground games, ball games, nature walks, and creative activities

    • Transition Mentor
      • Sep 2021 - Dec 2021

      The Transition Programme at UCL supports all first-year students in their transition to university and adaptation to a different way of life and new academic demands.My duties involved:- Providing peer support to 10 first-year students in UCL's Department of Experimental Psychology through delivering weekly in-person and online group mentoring meetings aiming to improve students' understanding of the academic demands, administration, and support services of the University- Planning the mentoring sessions with appropriate activities and discussions, making use of a variety of resources - Communicating with my mentees, responding to their queries, and signposting them to the appropriate support services- Communicating with my Senior Mentor on a weekly basis to provide a summary of the mentoring sessions progress and discuss ways to improve them- Keeping accurate attendance records for each session and reporting them to my Senior Mentor

    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Global Volunteer
      • Jun 2021 - Jul 2021

      AIESEC is a global platform for young people to develop their leadership potential through international internships and volunteer opportunities. Founded in 1948, AIESEC is a non-governmental, and not-for-profit organization entirely run by youth for youth. I volunteered with children aged 5-6 years in 2 kindergartens as part of the project 'Start the growth' organized by AIESEC in Kaunas, Lithuania. My responsibilities included:- Planning and delivering daily sessions aiming to help children learn basic English, improve their knowledge of environmental issues and sustainability, and learn about different cultures while engaging in interactive and fun activities- Collaborating with other volunteers on session creation- Actively suggesting ideas how to make sessions more creative, participating in brainstorms- Participating in weekly meetings with AIESEC'ers to discuss the project progress- Preparing and participating in Global Village - an initiative encouraging social sustainability, world awareness, and cultural understanding. In this event all the volunteers from the project showcased their nations through singing, dancing, food,, costumes, music and traditions- Helping teachers with daily care tasks (preparation for sleep time, lunch etc.)

Education

  • UCL
    Bachelor’s Degree, Psychology
    2020 - 2023
  • National School Complex of Culture and Italian Lyceum
    High School Diploma, Profile in Humanities
    2015 - 2020

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