Anna Traianou

Professor, Department of Educational Studies, Goldsmiths University of London, UK

Professor Anna Traianou has researched and published extensively on curriculum, policy and pedagogy and on qualitative research methodology, particularly on the situated character of social/educational research ethics.  Her recent books include ‘Ethics in Qualitative Research: Controversies and Contexts’ (Sage, 2012) co-written with Martyn Hammersley, and ‘Austerity and the Remaking of European Education’ (2019, Bloomsbury Academic) co-edited with Ken Jones.

She has recently received a grant from the British Academy to explore the impact on Greek education policy of OECD policy interventions in a key period of structural adjustment in 2015-18: The project is entitled: 'The remaking of national education policy in conditions of 'structural adjustment: The case of Greece’. 

Maria Assunção Flores

Professor, Institute of Education, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Professor Maria Assunção Flores received her Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2008/2009. Her research interests include teacher professionalism and identity, teacher education and professional development, teacher appraisal, and change as well as higher education. She has published extensively on these topics both nationally and internationally. She has served as Chair of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT) and as Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Council on Education for Teaching (ICET). She is executive editor of the journal Teachers and Teaching Theory and Practice.

Gerasimos Kouzelis

Professor of Philosophy of Science and Sociology of Knowledge at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the University of Athens

He studied Sociology, Philosophy and Political Science at the Universities of Marburg and Frankfurt, at which in 1986 his defense of his PhD Thesis on Symbolic surplus product: A reconstruction of Critical Theory's authority theme was awarded a summa cum laude.

He taught Sociology and Philosophy at the Universities of Frankfurt (1983-1986 as an academic tutor and 1999-2000 as an invited full-professor), Aegean (1987-1989 on contract), Thessaloniki (1989-1993 as a lecturer), Panteion (1991-1998 as external faculty member) and Athens, as an assistant (1993-1997), associate (1997-2007) and full professor (since 2007).

He has been invited to give lectures at Universities in Berlin (Free), London, Nicosia (European and Cyprus), Instanbul (Bosporus), Tel Aviv, Florence, Frankfurt, Boston (Harvard) and at most of the Greek Universities. During the spring term 2015 he was a Visiting Scholar at the New York University.

He has been teaching at the Postgraduate Programm on Political Science and Sociology of the Athens University since 1995 and was it's Director between 2010 and 1014.

He has published seventeen books, five of them being monographs, four as a co-author and eight as an editor, the most recent of which are:

• Kouzelis G. and Christopoulos D. (ed.) (2012), Citizenship: Political Discourse, History and Comparative Perspectives, Patakis: Athens (in Greek)
• Kouzelis G. et al. (2013), Criminal Justice System Personnel. Education and Training. What about Fundamental Rights? A European Typology, FREE and European Commission: Athens and Florence
• Kouzelis G. (2014), Fascism and Democracy, Nisos: Athens (in Greek).

John Spiridakis

Professor, School of Education, St. John’s University, New York, U.S.A.

Professor John Spyridakis serves as Interim Chair of the Department of Education Specialties, at the Graduate Programs in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Bilingual Education. Dr. Spiridakis received a B.A. from State University of New York at Stony Brook, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The Florida State University and a J.D. from Benjamin Cardozo School of Law. Dr. Spiridakis has numerous publications and has been a keynote and featured speaker at international, national and local conferences in the field of advocacy and education for immigrant students, families and language minority groups for over 40 years. He is currently serving as editor of the Athens Journal of Education. He is the recipient of many recognitions and awards such as the Congressional Achievement Award from Congressman Gregory Meeks, The New York State Bilingual Administrator of the Year from the New York State Association of Bilingual Educators, Hellenic American Educator Association Educator of the Year, and the St. John’s Faculty Recognition Award and the Special Recognition Award by the Office of Grants and Sponsored Research. He is also Past-President of the Greek-American Behavioral Studies Institute (GABSI).