Research Team & Collaborating Institutions

Alexandra Zavvou

Alexandra Zavvou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of Crete. She is the scientific co-ordinator of the GESTURE research program and coordinates WP2 together with Eleftheria Papastefanaki.

Alexandra Zavvou

Alexandra Zavvou is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Gender at the Department of Sociology of the University of Crete. She has worked as a researcher in European and national programs at Panteion University and the University of the Aegean and is the scientific coordinator of the HFRI funded research project GeStuRe (2023-2025). Her research interests include gender, migration and citizenship, asylum and humanitarian governance, feminist research and methodology, intersectionality, gender violence. She has published in Greek and international journals and edited volumes.

Further information: https://sociology.soc.uoc.gr/anthropino-dynamiko/meli-dep/alexandra-evangelia-zavvou/

Nelli Kambouri

Nelli Kambouri is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology of the Panteion University and a researcher of the program, coordinator of WP4.

Nelli Kambouri

Nelli Kambouri is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Science. She also teaches at the Hellenic Open University in the MA Gender Studies program. She is part of the research team of the ERC Consolidator Grant MUTE “Soundscapes of Trauma: Music, Sound and the Ethics of Witnessing” at the National Hellenic Research Foundation. In the past, she has worked at the Centre for Gender Studies of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, the Center for Human Rights, Gender and Migration, Washington University, and DIOTIMA in research projects related to gender, gender based violence, precarity, and migration and at the University of Hertfordshire in research on platform labour. She has also worked as a postgraduate research fellow at the Foundation for Research and Technology (2013-12015) and as a scientific consultant at the International Labour Organization (2016-2017). Her research work and publications focus on migration, gender theory, precarious labour, and technology.

Eleftheria Papastefanaki

Eleftheria Papastefanaki works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Crete. She is the coordinator of WP5 and WP2 together with Alexandra Zavvou.

Eleftheria Papastefanaki

Eleftheria Papastefanaki works as postdoctoral researcher in this research project. Her research interests focus on the history of women’s education (Greece, Balkans-socialist countries), the history of pedagogical and feminist ideas, the women’s movement and political activities. Eleftheria will participate in the archival research conducted in WP2, is responsible for the coordination of the fieldwork that will be conducted in Crete (WP5) and contributes to the dissemination activities (WP6), like the other members of the research team.

Pavlos Hatzopoulos

Pavlos Hatzopoulos holds a PhD in political science and international relations from the London School of Economics. He is coordinator and researcher of WP3.

Pavlos Hatzopoulos

Pavlos Hatzopoulos has been teaching at the Open University of Cyprus since 2017. He holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the London School of Economics. He has worked as a key researcher at the Centre of Gender Studies Laboratory of Panteion University, Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He has participated in several research and educational projects on the intersections of gender, new technologies, social media, and digital infrastructures, publishing a series of articles on their social and political dynamics as well as their pedagogical potential.

Academia: https://ouc.academia.edu/PavlosHatzopoulos/

Pavlos Liaropoulos

Pavlos Liaropoulos is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology of the University of Crete. He works as a researcher for WP5.

Pavlos Liaropoulos

Pavlos Liaropoulos is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology of the University of Crete. As part of his thesis, he conducts biographical research on precarious substitute teachers in Crete and attempts to study the repercussions of precariousness on the constitution and development of their professional identity. His research interests are related to the sociology of work and the sociology of education, while also focusing on gender discrimination and inequalities in the field of work and education. Pavlos will participate in the field research that will be conducted in Crete (WP5) and will contribute to the dissemination activities in WP6.

Salam-Irini Ampoumogli

Irini Ampoumogli holds an MSc in Sociology from the University of Crete. She works as a researcher for WP2, WP4 and WP5.

Salam-Irini Ampoumogli

Irini Ampoumogli holds a MSc in Sociology from the University of Crete. Her thesis focused on women’s subjectivity in rural Crete. She has participated in research projects implemented by the Gender Lab of the Department of Sociology and the Center for Visual Anthropology. She has served as a collaborating member of the UoC Committee on Gender Equality and, as part of the Working Group on gender discrimination, has contributed to drafting the UoC policy regarding sexual harassment at university. She is also an actress with a BA in acting and MA in stage directing from the Drama Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research interests include gender based violence and feminist and queer theory.

Katerina Zervaki

Katerina Zervaki holds a degree in Economics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Crete. She works as an assistant researcher for WP2, WP4 and WP5.

Salam-Irini Ampoumogli

Katerina Zervaki holds a degree in Economics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Crete, with her research focusing on migrant women’s entrepreneurship in Kypseli. She is currently completing her second Master’s in Global Health at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), with a focus on the homeless population and health inequalities. She has worked in Spain at the NGO «Por ti Mujer», where she provided counseling and professional support to women from Latin America, and in Sweden, participating in the organization of a gender, art, and politics festival as part of the Erasmus Placement program. She has also collaborated with the Gender Studies Laboratory at the University of Crete in an educational program raising awareness of gender stereotypes. Her research interests include migration, sociology of health, vulnerability, and gender relations.

Dimitris Sakellaridis

Dimitris Sakellaridis is a Technical Laboratory Staff Member of the University of Crete. He works as a programmer on the following packages, WP2, WP3 and WP6.

Dimitris Sakellaridis

Technical Lab Staff member of the School of Social Sciences of the University of Crete. Responsible for the construction of the website of the program and for the digital repository and anti-archive.

Centre for the Study of Gender (Gender Lab) Sociology Department University of Crete

The interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Gender (Gender Lab) aims at forming and developing a creative research environment and ensuring open and interdisciplinary collaboration and research on gender and equality. It was established in 2004 while from 2009 the Gender Lab acquired independent legal status. It is located in the UCRC-UoC at the Gallos Campus in Rethymnon Crete where its archival material and its academic and research activities are housed.

For more information please visit the Laboratory website:

https://www.keme.uoc.gr/index.php/el/kentro-meleton-gia-to-koinoniko-fylo-ergastirio-fylou