Assessment across cultures using psychometrics
Coaching cross culturally
Fairness in selection and recruitment
Personality and individual differences in the workplace
Women and entrepreneurship

Organisational Behaviour
Psychometrics
Research Design and Statistics

Wednesday : 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

January  2009
City University
London,  United Kingdom.
Ph.D. in Organisational Psychology - Psychometrics
The PhD focused on the development of practical and theoretical model for adapting personality questionnaires into different languages and cultures while maintaining equivalence between them. This was operationalised through the adaptation of Orpheus work-based personality questionnaire from English to Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), and Spanish.

The PhD was supervised by Dr Almuth McDowall from Surrey Univeristy (http://www.psy.surrey.ac.uk/people/staff/AMcDowall.htm)and examined by Professor Ronald Hambleton, a renowned academic in the field of cross-cultural assessment and measurement and holder of the titles of Distinguished University Professor, Co-Chairperson of the Research and Evaluation Methods Program, and Executive Director of the Center for Educational Assessment at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the USA (http://www.umass.edu/remp/remp3_ron.htm).

The PhD was fully funded through a scholarship from City University London and an additional research support scholorship from the Psychometrics Centre at Cambridge Assessment, Cambridge University.

September  2004
City University
London,  United Kingdom.
MS in Organisational Behaviour
This MSc at City University is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) and covered the eight domains specified by the BPS:
• Employee Relations and Motivation
• Organisational Change and Development
• Selection, Recruitment and Assessment
• Training and Simulation
• Human Machine Interaction
• Design of Environments and Work
• Counselling and Personnel Development
• Appraisal and Career Development

February  2002
American University of Beirut
Beirut,  Lebanon.
BA in Psychology

2007  -    2009
University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE)
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Independent consultant- Product Manager
Working on a long term project with CIE for/and in collaboration with the Bahrain Economic Development Board and Ministry of Education to:
- Establish a new National Examinations Unit as part of the Kingdom’s National Education Reform Project and
- Develop and run new National Tests for students at Grade 3, 6, and 9 in the core subjects of Arabic, Mathematics, Science and English.

http://www.cie.org.uk/news/features/detail?feature_id=20911

2006  -    2009
City University
London, United Kingdom
Part-time Lecturer and module leader
-Teaching Research Design and Statistics using SPSS for MSc speeach and Language Therapy students
-Restructuring the module syllabus and structure
-Introducing innovative methods of teaching and assessing statistics

2006  -    2009
Surrey University and Goldsmith University
London, United Kingdom
Visiting Lecturer
- Delivering lectures on various topics such as diversity, fairness in assessment, psychometrics principles and personality theory to MSc Organisational Psychology students

2004  -    2009
City University
London, United Kingdom
Visiting Lecturer
-Teaching Psychometrics for graduate students: Doctorate in Counselling Psychology; MSc Psychometrics; MSc Air Transport Management, MSc Organisational Psychology.
-Teaching Selection and Recruitment/ Training and Development/ Research in Organisations and other subjects to graduate students: MSc Psychometrics; MSc Health Psychology
-Assisting Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctorate students with Statistics and SPSS for their projects and dissertations
-Delivering BPS accredited training on MSc Psychometrics, MSc Organisational Psychology, and MSc Counselling in addition to City University lecturers and researchers at City University

http://www.city.ac.uk/lcs/biographies/ldaoukoyry.xml.html

2003  -    2007
The Psychometrics Centre
London, United Kingdom
Consultant
-Working on developing and facilitating Assessment Centres
-Advising on the choice and use of different psychometric tests within organisations in the UK, Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand
-Using personality questionnaires for employee assessment and development in various organisations and on an individual basis.
-Designing the training programme and assessment material for BPS accredited Test Administration Course
-Delivering Level A and B trainings for practitioners in London and Dubai

http://www.psychometrics.sps.cam.ac.uk/page/113/alumni.htm#LinaDaoukOyry

http://www.psychometrics.sps.cam.ac.uk/news.15.htm

http://www.psychometrics.sps.cam.ac.uk/page/161/international-versions.htm

2008 - 2008.
Saville Consulting. Surrey, United Kingdom.
-Advising on the adaptation of Verbal and Numerical Reasoning tests into Arabic.

2008 - 2008.
Brentfield Consultancy. London, United Kingdom.
- Advising on the adaptation of EBW into Arabic. EBW is an online Emotional Intelligence tool developed for use in assessment, training and development in the workplace.

2008 - 2009.
Practitioner and Academic Statistics Courses. London, United Kingdom.
-Managing, designing and delivering training courses for academics and practitioners who want to develop their understanding and skills in statistics and SPSS

2007 - 2007.
London Borough of Barnet. London, United Kingdom.
- Designing and delivering tailor made training course in developing, executing, and analysing Focus Groups.

2007 - 2009.
Richard Davies Investor Relations (RD:IR). London, United Kingdom.
- Developing and delivering annual Team Building exercises for Analytics, Research and Administrative teams

2008 - 2009.
Cass Business School. School of Management. London, United Kingdom.
- Facilitating video feedback based "Group Working Skills" and "Interview Skills" workshops for MBA and other MSc students at Cass Business School.

2008 - 2008.
Lebanese Judicial Training Institute (USAID & National Center For State Courts). Beirut, Lebanon.
-Development of a Selection Tool for candidates to the Institute in collaboration with Dr Charlotte Karam

2005 - 2009.
British Psychological Society accredited Level A and B training courses (for Public and Private sectors).. Dubai and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
- Delivering training courses in test administration and occupational tests using psychometrics to HR professionals

2003 - 2009.
British Psychological Society accredited Level A and B training courses (for Public and Private sectors). London, United Kingdom.
- Delivering training courses in test administration and occupational tests using psychometrics to HR professionals

Other Intellectual Contributions

Professional Honors, Prizes and Fellowships

- Full three year scholarship from City University Psychology Department worth £30 000 in addition to full international tuition fees.

- PhD research support scholarship from The Psychometrics Centre at Cambridge Assessment, Cambridge University worth £6000.

- BPS accredited Certificate of Competence in Occupational testing (Level A) (Aptitude/Ability testing) distinguished

- BPS accredited Certificate of Competence in Occupational testing (Level B Intermediate) (Personality testing, Orpheus)

- BPS accredited Certificate of Competence in Occupational testing (Level B Intermediate Plus) (Personality testing, OQP32)

- Master Management Certificate of Competence in Administering, interpreting and feeding back the Master Person Analysis (MPA)

- Professional training in the WAVE Personality test.

- Professional training in BarOn eqi emotional intelligence test.

Professional Activities and Public Service

- Member of Lebanon United, a London-based volunteer group that raises money and awareness to support humanitarian, educational and sustainable development initiatives across Lebanon.