Dr Spyros Themelis

Lecturer in Education Studies

Department: Arts and Education

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BA , MSc, MRes, PGCert, PhD

Sociology of Education

Research Methods

(forthcoming) The time of the crisis: Roma in a neo-liberal Europe, in Z. Plainer (ed.) (tbc)
(2010) Young People and Inclusion, in Equality, Participation and Inclusion: Learning From Each Other, Open University Press, (with Alice Sampson).(2009) What's wrong with inclusion: Some issues of policy and practice on Roma inclusion in Europe and the UK. Research in Comparative and International Education Journal, Vol.4(3), pp. 262-275.
(2009) Working in the community with young people who offend. Journal of Youth Studies, Vol. 12(2), pp. 121-137 (with Alice Sampson).
(2008) Meritocracy Through Education: A Critical Approach to Social Mobility in Post-War Britain. British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 29 (5), pp. 427-438.
(2008) Labour Market Restructuring and Employment Pathways: the Case of a Mixed Community (Roma, non-Roma) in N.W. Greece, Romani Studies Journal, Vol.18(2), pp. 123-154.

(2009) Education For All, Social Mobility For the Few and Meritocracy For None: Conceptualizing and Explaining the Failure of Education to Promote Social Mobility. Paper prepared at the 108th American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting - The End/s of Anthropology, 2-6 December 2009, Philadelphia, USA.
(2009) Education Based Meritocracy Towards a Critique of Post-War Liberal Democracy's Most Popular Myth, The 16th International Conference on Learning, 1-4 July 2009, University of Barcelona, Spain.
(2008) Some theoretical and methodological issues in the study of social mobility and education from a mixed methods perspective. Paper presented at the Mixed Methods Conference, 21-22 July 2008, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK.
(2008) A mixed methods approach in the study of social mobility. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), 24-28 March, 2008, New York, USA.

10/2004-9/2008. 1+3 ESRC scholarship for the completion of Masters of Research in Educational and Social Research (MRes) and PhD at the Institute of Education, University of London.
3/2007-2/2008: Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Two-year Marie Curie fellowship as part of the project :'Multi-Disciplinary and Cross-National Approaches To Romany Studies:'. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
1/2000-12/2000. Scholarship as part of the EU-funded project :'INTERREG II:'. Research conducted at the Universities of Lecce, Italy and Ioannina, Greece.

Member of the sociology reference group of the Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Political Sciences, (C-SAP), part of Higher Education Academy.
Member of the American Educational Research Association.
Member of the Gypsy Lore Society.
Member of the British Sociological Association.
Member of the Research Committee for Social Stratification and Mobility (RC 28) of the International Sociological Association.

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