Dr Anna Paraskevopoulou
Position
Research Fellow
Qualifications
- PhD (LSE)
- MA (Bradford)
- BA(Hons) (Reading)
Research Interests and Expertise
Main research expertise: workplace employment relations, diversities and equalities, social disadvantage and discrimination, ethnic/race relations, minorities, migrant workers and undocumented migration
Other research interests: Social change and employment, European Union and European identity, Balkan history and minorities, modern Greece
Background/Career
Anna has worked in a number of EU, GLA and other government funded projects both as Researcher and Research co-ordinator.
Recent Research Projects
- Mapping trade union responses to discrimination in 34 European countries: National Expert for Greece and part of the co-rdinating team
- A Survey of the Effectiveness of the 2000 Racial Equality Directive among trade unions and employers in 27 EU Member States - Fundamental Rights Agency (EU): National Expert for Greece
- International migration and innovation in the London hotel sector and SMEs - ESRC
- UWT - Undocumented Worker Transitions - DG Research (EU), Framework Six
- PIQUE - privatisation and productivity - DG Research (EU), Framework Six
- Employment, Skills and Training Needs of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Recent Migrants in Haringey - Haringey Council
- The Significance of Migrant Workers in the Mid and West Essex Labour Market - ExDRA: Essex Development and Regeneration Agency
- ’3DsLondon’: Tackling Disadvantage, Disengagement and Discrimination in London’s Labour Market - London O3 - LSC Pan London ESF Objective 3 Co-Financing Programme
- London Anti-Social Behaviour Strategy, GLA
Publications
Book
- 2011 Undocumented Workers’ Transitions: Legal Status, Migration, and Work in Europe, New York: Routledge (co-authored with S. McKay and E. Markova) - forthcoming
Book chapters
- 2011, “Regional Policy and the Muslim Minority Western Thrace” in Evergeti V (ed), Disputed Identities: Portraying Conceptions of Indigenous Muslims in Greece, Springer publications - forthcoming
- 2010, “Tackling Discrimination, Disadvantage and Disengagement in London’s labour market” in Wright, T. and Conley, H (eds), Handbook of Discrimination at Work Gower Publishers (with Monika Beutel)
- 2010, “Conditions of refugees and asylums seekers”, in F. Perocco & R. Cillo, "Economia sommersa e immigrazione nondocumentata in Europa", Franco Angeli Publisher, Milan
Articles
- 2011, Undocumented Worker Transitions – Family Migration, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol 31 issue 1/2
- 2007, 'Media and the construction of Greek Diasporic Identities' in M. Kontochristou (ed.) Identity and Mass Media in contemporary Greece, Papazisis, Society, Politics and the Media Series, Athens (in Greek)
- 2002, ‘When is the nation? The role of Enemies and Minorities’ in Geopolitics, Vol. 7, No 2, Frank Cass Journal pp.75-99. (Co-authored with Anna Triandafyllidou)
Reports
- 2010 “The impact of the Racial Equality Directive: a survey of trade unions and employers in the Member States of the European Union, Greece” in FRA, The impact of the Racial Equality Directive Views of trade unions and employers in the European Union, Fundamental Rights Agency
- 2009, “The relationship between migration status and employment outcomes”, UWT final project report (with Sonia Mckay, Eugenia Markova and Tessa Wright)
- 2008, “PIQUE: UK Health case study Report”, WLRI, London
- 2008, “PIQUE: UK Electricity sector case study report”, WLRI, London
- 2008, “PIQUE: UK Transport sector case study report”, WLRI, London
- 2007, Employment, Skills and Training Needs of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Recent Migrants in Haringey, Working Lives Research Institute, London (with Marc Craw and Steve Jefferys)
- 2007, The Significance of Migrant Workers in the Mid and West Essex Labour Market, Working Lives Research Institute, London (with Sonia Mckay)
- 2006, Tackling Disadvantage, Disengagement and Discrimination in London’s Labour Market, Working Lives Research Institute, London (with Monika Beutel)
- 2005 ‘Anti-Social Behaviour in London: Setting the context for the London Anti-Social Behaviour Strategy’, GLA, London (Co-authored with Andrew Millie, Jessica Jacobson, Mike Hough)
Book Reviews
- 2005, book review on L.S. Stavrianos, The Balkans since 1453, reviwed in Nations and Nationalisms, Vol. 11, Issue 3, July 2005
- 2000, book review on R.K Schaeffer, Severed States: dilemmas of Democracy in a divided world, reviewed in Nations and Nationalisms, Vol.6, Part 3, July 2000
New Media
- 2006, Production and editing of 3DsLondon web-based database www.3DsLondon.info, Working Lives Research Institute
- 1995, Production of "COFIA: Electronic Library on Byzantine History and Art", Lambrakis Research Foundation
Media Exposure
Radio Interview, BBC Radio Essex, David Monk Programme, 13 December 2007, on Migration in Essex
Professional Activities
Anna has been on the editorial team of Synthesis, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, an active member and former chair of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) and is currently a member of ASEN’s Advisory Board.
Contact details
a.paraskevopoulou@londonmet.ac.uk
Anna Paraskevopoulou
Working Lives Research Institute
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry Street
London EC3N 2EY
Tel. 020 7320 1351
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