Working Lives Research Institute
Research Fellow
Research Interests and Expertise
Anna’s main research expertise includes ethnicity and nationalism, regionalism, minorities, migration and diasporas, ethnic and civic identity formation, disadvantage and social exclusion. Her doctoral work concentrated on regional policy, local governement and ethnic minorities in the EU with a case study covering the Muslim Minority in Greece.
Anna has worked in a number of EU, GLA and other government funded projects both as Researcher and Research co-ordinator.
Recent Research Projects
2010, “Regional Policy and the Muslim Minority Western Thrace” in Evergeti V (ed), Disputed Identities: Portraying Conceptions of Indigenous Muslims in Greece, Springer publications (forthcoming book chapter)
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 (forthcoming book chapter)
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, '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, with M. Kontochristou)
2007, Employment, Skills and Training Needs of Refugees, Asylum Seekers adn 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) http://www.3dslondon.info/pdfs/3dsLondon_report.pdf
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) http://www.london.gov.uk/gla/publications/crime_policing/asb_setting_thecontextfor.pdf
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
2006, Production and editing of 3DsLondon web-based database www.3DsLondon.info, Working Lives Research Institute
2002, Production and editing of Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN), London School of Economics website: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/
1995, Production of "COFIA: Electronic Library on Byzantine
History and Art", Lambrakis Research Foundation
Radio Interview, BBC Radio Essex, David Monk Programme, 13 December 2007, on Migration in Essex
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.
a.paraskevopoulou@londonmet.ac.uk
Anna Paraskevopoulou
Working Lives Research Institute
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry Street
London EC3N 2EY
Tel. 020 7320 1351