CV ALEXANDRA KORONAIOU Alexandra Koronaiou Is Professor of Sociology at Panteion University of Athens, Department of Psychology

CV ALEXANDRA KORONAIOU

Alexandra Koronaiou is Professor of Sociology at Panteion University of Athens, Department of Psychology, where she teaches Sociology of Work and Leisure and Media Sociology. Moreover, she teaches an introductory course on Adult Education in the Greek Open University’s Postgraduate Programme. Her research interests include sociology of work and free time; education; media impact on youth; youth studies; young people’s radicalisation; and gender issues. She has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Observatory on Gender Equality in Education and of KETHI (Research Centre for Women’s Equality), scientific collaborator in the Research Institute of Modern Societies, French National Centre for Scientific

Research (IRESCO/CNRS) and an expert in the COST ACTION A 34 Gender and Well Being: Interactions between Work, Family and Public Policies.

She has extensive experience of international project management and research and she has been the scientific responsible of various EU FP7 and HORIZON 2020 research projects: 1) MYPLACE (Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement, FP7, 2011-2015, http://www.fp7-myplace.eu/); 2) MYWEB (Measuring Youth Well-Being, FP7, 2014-2016, http://fp7-myweb.eu/); 3) INNOSI (Innovative

Social Investment: Strengthening Communities in Europe, Horizon 2020, 2015-2017, http://innosi.eu/).

On a national level she has directed and conducted extensive research on the sociology of work and health, free time and leisure, education and lifelong learning, gender roles and the media impact on youth, including: 2002-2008: Member of KETHI’s Scientific Board for the project “Raising Awareness for Gender Issues Among Teachers’ Trainers and Educators”. 2006-2007: Scientific Director of KETHI’s research project “The Role of Fathers in Balancing Professional and Family Life” (FP5: “Equal Partners. Re-examining Men’s Role in Work and Private Life”), 2005: i) Research study on “Occupational Stress in Greek Health Professionals working in Public and Private Hospitals”, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, ii) Research on “Unemployed women: Psychosocial Consequences” a case study of Palco conducted at the Department of Psychology, Panteion University of

Social and Political Sciences. 2004: Research study on “Occupational Stress in Greek Secondary Educators”, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences.

She is the author of several books (“Youth and Media of Mass Communication” (1995), “Sociology of leisure time” (1996), “Educating outside school” (2002), “The role of fathers in balancing Professional and Family-Private Life” (2007), “When Work Becomes Illness” (2010) and of more than 60 articles and book chapters including: Koronaiou at al. (2015). “Golden Dawn, austerity and young people: The rise of fascist extremism among young people in contemporary Greek society”. In H.Pilkington and G.Pollock (eds.), Radical Futures? Youth, Politics and Activism in Contemporary Europe, The Sociological Review Monograph Series, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, pp.231-249; Koronaiou, A., Lagos, E., Sakellariou, A. (2015). “Singing for race and nation: Fascism and racism in Greek youth music”. In P.Simpson and H.Druxes (eds.), Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States, Lanham: Lexington Books, pp.193-213; Koronaiou, A. and Sakellariou, A. (2013). “Reflections on ‘Golden Dawn’, community organizing and nationalist solidarity: helping (only) Greeks”, Community Development Journal, vol.48, no.2, pp.332-338; Koronaiou, A. (2010), “Women’s leisure in Greece: fighting for a time of one’s own”. In Advances in Gender Research, (Ed. Segal, M.T. & Demos, V.), USA: Publishing Emerald Group; Koronaiou, A. (2010), Women’s Free Time as a Precondition for the Development of Adult Education”. In A. Kokkos & D. Vergidis (eds.), Adult Education: International Approaches and Greek Trajectories, Athens: Metehmio; Koronaiou, A. (2009), “Free Time and Recreation Spaces for the Albanian Immigrants in Greece”. In M. Spyridakis (ed.), Space Transformations: Social and Cultural Dimensions, Athens: Nissos, pp. 283-311; Koronaiou, A., Papadopoulou, Ph. (2005). Exercises for the sensitizing of the counselors of integrated interventions, Quality in Gender and Equality Policies, Athens: Research Centre for Gender Equality (KETHI); Koronaiou, A. (2002). “Young employees and the social meanings of work”. In K. Navridis (ed.), Power, Violence, Pain, Athens: Kastaniotis, pp. 247-265.