Name

Theodoros Iosifides

Title

Associate Professor

Scientific Field:

Social Research Methods

Telephone number

+30 22510 36405

Office:

Geography Building - 1st  floor 

Email: iwsifidis@aegean.gr Web page:  
Studies:

Doctorate of Philosophy (D.Phil.) in Human Geography, Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, UK, 1997. Title of Doctoral Thesis: Recent Foreign Immigration and the Labour Market in Athens.                                                                                                                                   Master of Arts (MA) in Regional Development, Regional Development Institute, Panteion University of Athens, 1994.                                                                                                                                  Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sociology, Panteion University of Athens, 1992.

Research Interests:
  • International migration especially to Southern Europe 
  • Qualitative Methods and Qualitative Data Analysis
  • Labour markets, informal economy, socio-economic restructuring, globalisation
  • Urban and regional development
Current Research Projects:
  • Researcher. European Research Program LIFE: Application of Pollution Monitoring Methods with Biological Indicators and Integration of Results to Spatial Planning of Kavala Prefecture. Development Agency of the Prefecture of Kavala, January – June 2000.

  •  Researcher. European Research Program MEDACTION (Policies for Land Use to Combat Desertification), January 2001 – December 2003. · Researcher. European Research Program EQUAL (Labour Market and People with Disabilities), 2002-2003.

  • Researcher. Research Program: Integrated Framework of Population Groups Recording in Northwest Thesalloniki. Development Agency of Northwest Thessaloniki, 2003-2004.

Teaching Experience:
  • Economies of the Balkans and Eastern Europe

  • Qualitative Research Methods

  • Sociology and Political Theory

  • Epistemology, Theory and Method in Spatial Planning

  • Knowledge, Innovation Networks and Spatial Economic Restructuring

  • Social Exclusion and Unequal Development

  • Social Policy and Spatial Social Movements

  • Issues of Geographical Mobility: Migration and Tourism

Publications:

Iosifides T. and King R. (1996) “Recent immigration to Southern Europe: the socio-economic and labour market context”, in Journal of Area Studies, Southern Europe in Transition, 9: 70-94.

Iosifides T. (1997) “Immigrants in the Athens labour market: a comparative survey of Albanians, Egyptians and Filipinos”, in King R. and Black R. (eds) Southern Europe and the New Immigrations. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 26-50.

King R., Iosifides T. and Myrivili L. (1998) “A migrants story: from Albania to Athens”, in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 24.1: 159-75.

Iosifides T. and King R. (1999) “Socio- spatial dynamics and exclusion of three immigrant groups in the Athens conurbation”, in Baldwin – Edwards M. and Arango J. (Eds.) Immigrants and the Informal Economy in Southern Europe. London: Frank Cass Publishers. 

Iosifides T. (2001) “Working conditions of three immigrant groups in Athens”, in Marvakis A., Parsanoglou D. and Pavlou M. (Eds.) Migrants in Greece. Athens: Ellinika Grammata (in english/links)

Iosifides T. (2001) “Work, migrant labour and the end (;) of work”, in Amitsis, G. and Lazaridis G. (Eds.) Legal and Sociopolitical Dimensions of Migration in Greece. Athens: Papazisis (in english/links)

Iosifides, T. (2002) “Social dimensions of the problem of desertification”, Proceedings of 6th Pan-Hellenic Geographical Congress, Thessaloniki, pp. 432-438.

Iosifides T. (2002) “The use of computers in qualitative data analysis” in To Vima ton Koinonikon Epitimon (Social Science Tribune), 33: 111-131 (in english/links).

Iosifides T. and Korres G. (2002) “Social and economic dimensions of land degradation and desertification”, in From Industry to Advanced Services: Perspectives of European Metropolitan Regions. CD-ROM Proceedings of the 42nd Conference of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), 27-31 August, Dortmund, Germany, Article Νο 7.

Korres G. and Iosifides T. (2002) “The impact of foreign direct investment and technical change on regional growth” στο From Industry to Advanced Services: Perspectives of European Metropolitan Regions. CD-ROM Proceedings of the 42nd Conference of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), 27-31 August, Dortmund, Germany, Article Νο 15.

Korres, G., Iosifides, T., Tsobanoglou, G. (2003) “Migration, Population Growth and Economic Development: a Review for the European Member States”, Proceedings (CD-ROM) 2nd International Sociology Conference, Article Νο 4. Thessalonica: June (in english/links).

Iosifides, T. (2003) “Epistemological and Methodological Conflicts in relation to Computer Use in Qualitative Data Analysis”, Proceedings (CD-ROM) 2nd International Sociology Conference, Article Νο3. Thessaloniki: June (in english/links).

Korres G. and Iosifides T. (2003) “Technical Change, Productivity and Economic Growth”, in  Peripheries, Centres and Spatial Development in the New Europe. CD-ROM Proceedings of the 43rd Conference of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), 27-30 August, Finland, Article Νο 98.

Iosifides, T. (2003, in press) Qualitative Data Analysis in Social Sciences. Athens: Kritiki

Vagianni, E., Iosifides. T., Petanidou, T. (2003) “The use of SWOT analysis in spatial and development planning: the case of ecotourist planning in Polihnitos, Lesvos”, in TOPOS, Review of Spatial Development, Planning and Environment, 20/21: 119-137. (in english/links)

     
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