Research Students

We are proud of the research students working on Greece and/ or Cyprus that we have supervised: for the quality of their work and their later career success. We congratulate all of them. Here you can find the candidate names and thesis titles of those PhDs supervised by HO staff, in recent years, with links to copies of their theses in the LSE Library.

Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni

Cooperation against the odds: a study on the political economy of local development in a country with small firms and small farms; (2020)

Kira is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) of the University of Oxford.

Simon Ganem

Essays on the Political Economy of the Eurozone and Greek Crises; (2020)

Simon is Consultant in Macroeconomics at the DirectionGeneral du Tresor (French Treasury).

Angelos Angelou

Swimming against the tide: the European Commission and the politics of debt-relief; (2019)

Angelos is an Academic Fellow at the University of Piraeus.

Chrysoula Papalexatou

Essays on the euro and inequality; (2018)

Chrysoula is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Macedonia.

Sotirios Zartaloudis

Wielding soft power in a world of neglect: the impact of the European employment strategy in Greece and Portugal; (2013)

Sotirios is Associate Professor in Comparative European Politics at the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham.

Aris Trantidis

The dominant party system: clientelism, pluralism and limited contestability; (2012)

Aris is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Politics at the School of Social and Political Sciences, College of Social Science, University of Lincoln.

Kornelakis Andreas

Mediating EU liberalisation and negotiating flexibility: a coalitional approach to wage bargaining change; (2011)

Andreas is a Senior Lecturer in International Management at King's Business School.

Vassilopoulou Sofia

Euroscepticism and the radical right: domestic strategies and party system dynamics; (2011)

Sofia is a Professor of European Politics at the Department of European and International Studies at King's College, London.

Christos Dimas

National institutional contexts and domestic discourse during proposed transformative policy change: The case of telecoms' privatization in Greece and the Republic of Ireland; (2010)

Christos is a lawyer and a Member of the Hellenic Parliament, representing Nea Demokratia in the district of Korinthia. He is currently Greece's Deputy Minister of Culture, while from 2019-2023 he was Deputy Minister for Research and Technology .

Moumoutzis Kyriakos

Explaining change in Greek policy on EU-Turkey relations 1996-1999: The Prime Minister's leadership style and the formulation of the Helsinki strategy; (2009)

Michael Joseph Romanos

Moving ashore? Greek shipowners, state corporatism and the Europeanisation of maritime transport; (2008)

Halikiopoulou Daphne

The changing dynamics of religion and national identity: Greece and Ireland in a comparative perspective; (2007)

Daphne is Chair in Comparative Politics at the University of York.

Georgios Niarchos

Between ethnicity, religion and politics foreign policy and the treatment of minorities in Greece and Turkey, 1923-1974; (2005)

Georgios works at the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs. He is a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Argyrios Mamarelis

Rise and fall of the 5/42 regiment of evzones: A study on national resistance and civil war in Greece, 1941-1944; (2003)

Argyrios is a teacher.

From its early years, the Hellenic Observatory sought to support students in their desire to carry out postgraduate and doctoral studies with a focus on various aspects of contemporary Greece in the social sciences. To fulfil this, it benefitted from significant studentships: The Bodossaki Foundation, Mr Grigoris Tzirakian and his family, OPAP, the Greek Organisation of Football Prognostics SA. The holders of these scholarships have since moved on to become senior academics, government ministers, key policy advisors, etc. Below you can find the scholars hosted by the Observatory throughout the years.

HELLENIC OBSERVATORY PhD SCHOLAR (Full Scholarship)

Glyniadaki Katerina (2015-19)

Migration policy in practice: identity conflicts and discretionary decisions at the front lines; (2019)

BODOSSAKI FOUNDATION PhD SCHOLARS

Theodoropoulou Sotiria (1999-00)
Antoniades Andreas (2000-01)
Moumountzis Kyriakos (2005-06)
Vassilopoulou Sofia (2006-07)
Zartaloudis Sotiris (2007-08)
Kornelakis Andreas (2008-09)

OPAP SCHOLARSHIPS

PhD STUDENTS

Papadopoulos Theocharis (2010-11)
Triantopoulos Christos (2011-12)
Politof Cleio (2012-13)
Giakoulas Dimitris (2013-14)
Zeaki Maria (2013-14)

OPAP SCHOLARSHIPS

MASTER STUDENTS

Balaska Panagiota (2009-10)
Pitsilkas Charalampos (2009-10)
Emmanouilidou Foteini (2010-11)
Kourouka Evangelia (2010-11)
Loukidou Aikaterini (2010-11)
Dritsa Maria (2011-12)
Myrodias Konstantinos (2011-12)
Papalexatou Chrysoula (2012-13)
Iliopoulou Margarita (2013-14)

GREGORY TZIRAKIAN PhD SCHOLARSHIP

Evangelopoulos George (2006-07)
Trantidis Aris (2008-09)
Manis Athanasios (2010-11)

HELLENIC OBSERVATORY VISITING RESEARCH STUDENTS

Sakkas Stelios (2015-16)
Ousantzopoulou Kaliope (2015-16)
Koutsoupakis Dimitrios (2016-17)
Panoutsopoulos Tasos (2017-18)
Dimakopoulou Vasiliki -Eirini (2017-18)
Fotopoulou Myrsini (2018-19)
Zirganou- Kazolea Lina (2019-20)

NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE

Georganta Korina (2000-01)
LSE HELLENIC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MSc SCHOLAR
Kaplani Santra (2008-09)

Since 2003 the Hellenic Observatory has organised biennially a PhD Symposium for post-graduate students in the social sciences working on Greece and/or Cyprus.

The key objective is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas between young researchers and to provide them with the experience of presenting their research to an international audience.

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