Dr Anna Paraskevopoulou
Position
Research Fellow
Qualifications
- PhD (LSE)
- MA (Bradford)
- BA(Hons) (Reading)
Research Interests and Expertise
My research interests include disadvantage and discrimination in the labour market, precarious work, equality and diversity, employment relations, social divisions, race and racism, Trade Unions, and migration, including undocumented migration.
Teaching
I teach the following modules:
Postgraduate level:
- Module leader for the MA module on Equalities and Diversities, Business School, London Metropolitan University
- Module leader for the MA module Equality & Diversity: Policy & Implementation, Business School, London Metropolitan University
Undergraduate level:
Social Divisions - Social Problems - Research methods, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
Background/Career
Recent Research Projects
- Precarious work and social rights, funded by the European Commission, Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities - ongoing
- ‘Precarious Work’, funded by the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism trade unions (EFFAT)
- 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
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
- 2012, “Regional Policy and the Muslim Minority Western Thrace” in Evergeti V (ed), Disputed Identities: Portraying Conceptions of Indigenous Muslims in Greece, Springer publications - forthcoming
- 2011, “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)
Articles
- 2012, ‘Migration and Innovation at the Bottom End: Understanding the Role of Migrant Managers in Small Hotels in the Global City’, Mobilities, iFirst
- 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
- 2011, Precarious work in Agriculture, Tourism and Food, Drinks and Tobacco, EFFAT and Working Lives Research Institute (forthcoming)
- 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. Available at: http://fra.europa.eu/fraWebsite/attachments/RED_Greece.pdf
- 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)
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
- 2011, Press Conference, European trade union EFFAT, presentation of interim results of the project on precarious work, Brussels, June 2011
- Radio Interview, BBC Radio Essex, David Monk Programme, 13 December 2007, on Migration in Essex
Professional Activities
I have 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 currently a member of ASEN’s Advisory Board. I am also a member of British Sociological Association and a Member of Council of European Studies Research Network - Industrial Relations, Skill Formation and Welfare State Policies.
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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