Projects and publications

Alongside my jobs and studies, I’ve also been working on a few Open Scholarship and Meta-Science projects:

Member of the University of Birmingham team for Many Analysts in Gender-Inclusive Language project, investigating the effects of gender-inclusive language forms on the cognitive retrieval of female exemplars. More information coming soon!
Member of Bulgarian team of the Psychological Science Accelerator’s Minimal Groups Study.
Open Scholarship in the Developing World project, in collaboration with FORRT. More information coming soon!
Creating a translated and adapted for Bulgarian version of FORRT’s Glossary (work in progress)
Participated as a community reviewer of NASA’s Transform to Open Science curriculum
Investigating the impact of open and reproducible scholarship on students’ attitudes, outcomes, and engagement, as part of FORRT (see Pownall et al., 2023)
Working on a project about the feminist ways of doing science (Hartmann et al., 2023)
Team leader of the University of Birmingham Team and analyst in Many Speech Analyses collaborative project aiming to understand the robustness of speech analyses (see Coretta et al., 2023)
Contributed to the Replications and Reversals FORRT project, where we developed a very large living resource of the reproducibility of effects across the social and natural sciences (see Röseler et al., 2024)
Taking part in FORRT’s 100+ Summaries of Open and Reproducible Science Literature project, which is planned to be a very large resource for Open Scholarship educators and people who want to learn more about doing better science (manuscript in prep)
Working on a project investigating best practices for publishing student graduate work (manuscript in prep). More information coming soon!
Part of an international team investigating the adoption of Open Science practices cross-culturally (see Baum et al., 2022)
Contributed to the Bulgarian translation of the Consensus-Based Transparancy Checklist (see Balazs et al., 2020, for the original English version)

Publications

Aging and dementia:

Bailey*, M., Ilchovska*, Z. G., Hosseini, A., & Jung, J. (in press). Understanding the neural basis of Alzheimer’s disease with genetic factors: A neuroimaging meta-analysis. Journal of Clinical Neurology, 20(5), 469-477.

Ilchovska, Z. G., Lockwood, J., Proctor, Lambon Ralph, M. A., E., Hosseini, A., & Jung, J. (n.d.). The neural basis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD): Insights from ALE meta-analyses of four FTD subtypes encompassing 8,057 participants [Under review]

Bilingualism:

Ilchovska, Z. G. & Culbertson, J. (2019). The learnability of evidential systems in the case of L1 Bulgarian and L2 English. In A. Gattnar, R. Hörnig, M. Störzer & S. Featherston (Eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2018: Experimental data drives linguistic theory. Tübingen: University of Tübingen. http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-32634

Open Scholarship:

Baum, M. A., Hart, A., Elsherif, M. M., Ilchovska, Z. G., Moreau, D., Dokovova, M., LaPlume, A. A., Krautter, K., & Staal, J. (2022). Research without borders: How to identify and overcome potential pitfalls in international large-team online research projects. In SAGE Research Methods Cases. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529602074

Brodeur, A., Valenta, D., Marcoci, A., Aparicio, J. O., Mikola, D., Barbarioli, B., Alexander, R., Deer, L., Stafford, T., Vilhuber, L., et al. (n.d.). Comparison of human, AI-assisted, and quasi-automated approaches to assessing research reproducibility in quantitative social science.[Under review]

Chuan-Peng, H., Xu, Z., Lazić, A., Bhattacharya, P., Seda, L., Hossain, S., Jeftić, A., Özdoğru, A. A., Amaral, O. B., Miljković, N., Ilchovska, Z. G., (…), & Azevedo, F. (2025). Open science in the developing world: A collection of practical guides for researchers in developing countries. [Under review] https://osf.io/7ubk2_v1

Coretta, S., Casillas, J, Roessig, S., Franke, M., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Al-Tamimi, J., Alotaibi, N. E., AlShakhori, M. K., Altmiller, R. M., Arantes, P., Athanasopoulou, A., Baese-Berk, M. M., Bailey, G., Sangma, C. B. A., Beier, E. J., Benavides, G. M., Benker, N., BensonMeyer, E. P., Benway, N. R., (…) Ilchovska, Z. G., (…) & Roettger, T. B. (2023). Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human speech analyses. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 6(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459231162567

Cuadra, D., Castro, P., Gonzalez, I., Oyanadel, C., Pérez, D., Ilchovska, Z., Sandoval, J. & Morales, D. (2024). Identidad profesional y progreso académico en la formación inicial de futuros profesores chilenos: estudio mixto. [Professional identity and academic progress in the initial training of Chilean teachers: A mixed study.]. Logos: Revista de Lingüística, Filosofía y Literatura, 34(1), 437-463. http://doi.org/10.15443/RL3419

Hartmann, H., Darda, K. M., Meletaki, V., Ilchovska, Z. G., Corral-Frias, N. S., Hofer, G., Azevedo, F., & Sauve, S. A. (2023). Incorporating feminist practices into (psychological) science - the why, the what and the how. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/2rcuz [Under review]

Pownall, M., Azevedo, F., König, L. M., Slack, H. R., Evans, T. R., Flack, Z., Grinschgl, S., Elsherif, M., Gilligan-Lee, K., Oliveira, C. M. F., Gjoneska, B., Kanadadze, T., Button, K., Ashcroft-Jones, S., Terry, J., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Dechterenko, F., Alzahawi, S., Baker , B. J., (…) Ilchovska, Z. G., (…) & Sadhwani, S. (2023). Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: A critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes. Royal Society Open Science, 10(5). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221255

Röseler, L., Kaiser, L., Doetsch, C., Klett, N., Seida, C., Schütz, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Alarie, S., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Aldoh, A., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Azevedo, F., Baker, B. J., Barth, C. L., Beitner, J., Brick, C., (…) Ilchovska, Z. G., (…) & Zhang, Y. (2024). The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12(8), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101

Yang, X. Schulz, J., Schmidt, K., Kenny, A. R., Pfuhl, G., Gjoneska, B., Dalgar, I., Lewis, S. C., Exner, A., Buchanan, E. M., Lander, K., Becker, M., Du, H., Johri, A., Selcuk, E., Gallyamova, A., Calluso, C., Reggev, N., (…) Ilchovska, Z. G., (…) & Dunham, Y. (2024, August 21). Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5gpr4

Presentations

2025

Ilchovska, Z. G., Mazaheri, A., & Krott, A. (2025). Reactive and proactive language control in language switching: ERPs, oscillations and individual differences [Talk]. School of Psychology, University of Lincoln, UK

2024

Ilchovska, Z. G., Mazaheri, A., & Krott, A. (2024). Testing the Switching Experience and Environment Questionnaire (SEEQ): A measure of bilingual switching behaviours [Poster presentation]. International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC), Swansea University, UK
Ilchovska, Z. G., Mazaheri, A., & Krott, A. (2024).Testing the Switching Experience and Environment Questionnaire (SEEQ): A measure of bilingual switching behaviours [Poster presentation]. Experimental Psychology Society meeting, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Ilchovska, Z. G., Lockwood, J., Proctor, Lambon Ralph, M. A., E., Hosseini, A., & Jung, J. (2024). The neural basis of frontotemporal dementia: An ALE meta-analysis [Poster presentation]. Neuroscience at Nottingham Meeting, University of Nottingham, UK.

2023

Ilchovska, Z. G., Lockwood, J., Proctor, Lambon Ralph, M. A., E., Hosseini, A., & Jung, J. (2023). The neural basis of frontotemporal dementia: An ALE meta-analysis [Poster presentation]. British Neuropsychological Society Autumn Meeting 2023, Clinical Neuroscience Centre, UCL, London.
Ilchovska, Z. G., Krott, A., & Mazaheri, A. (2023). Bilingual language switching: ERP and time frequency EEG processes [Talk]. 14th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB-14), Sydney, Australia.

2022

Ilchovska, Z. G., Krott, A., & Mazaheri, A. (2022). Bilingual language switching: ERP and time frequency EEG processes [Poster presentation]. 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2022), Tromsø, Norway.

2018

Ilchovska, Z. G. & Culbertson, J. (2018). The Learnability of Evidential Systems in the Case of L1 Bulgarian and L2 English [Poster presentation]. Linguistic Evidence Conference, Tübingen, Germany.
Ilchovska, Z. G. & Culbertson, J. (2018). The Learnability of Evidential Systems in the Case of L1 Bulgarian and L2 English [Poster presentation]. 26th Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe, London, UK.

2017

Ilchovska, Z. (2017). The Bicultural Identity of Bilinguals Speaking an Endangered Mesoamerican Language [Talk]. 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB-11), Limerick, Republic of Ireland.