Professor Venetia Evergeti
麻豆视频
Biography
I am a Professor in Sociology, and the Associate Head, Education in the School of Social Sciences. Previously I was the Director of Learning and Teaching and Deputy Head of Department in Sociology.
My dedication to excellence in Teaching and enhancing the student experience has been recognised by the 麻豆视频. I was awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teacher of the Year in 2023.
ResearchResearch interests
My principal research interests are in Interactionist Sociology, Qualitative and Ethnographic Research Methods.
In particular, using this paradigm I have studied: International Students鈥 Experiences of EDI; Affordances of Hybrid Learning and Captured Content in HE; The Role of Discipline-Specific Training for GTAs; Transnational Family Networks of Care; Transnational Grandparenting; Race, Ethnicity and Migration; Muslim Minorities in Greece and Europe.
I am an expert in the study of indigenous and migrant Muslim communities in Greece and I have published extensively on this. Between 2010 and 2012 I led the AHRC-funded Islam in Greece project, one of the first projects specifically exploring the role of religion in the experiences of belonging and the interactions between indigenous Muslim communities and newly arriving migrants from predominantly Muslim countries.
I have also carried out extensive research on the interplay between ethnicity and transnational family networks as part of the Families and Social Capital Research Group at London South Bank University . This work resulted in a co-edited Special Issue in the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies on 'Social Capital, Migration and Transnational Family Networks'.
I have also developed pedagogical research on students' experiences of hybrid HE education during and after the pandemic and the role of discipline-specific training for Graduate Teaching Assistance. Following my preliminary research on this, in 2022 I established the ground-breaking Sociology GTA Academy providing extensive subject-specific training and professional development to PhD students who teach. I am currently involved developing this innovative scheme further and after securing FASS funds for a student-staff partnership project, I am working on developing a blueprint for such GTA Academies in other Schools across all Faculties in Surrey.
Research interests
My principal research interests are in Interactionist Sociology, Qualitative and Ethnographic Research Methods.
In particular, using this paradigm I have studied: International Students鈥 Experiences of EDI; Affordances of Hybrid Learning and Captured Content in HE; The Role of Discipline-Specific Training for GTAs; Transnational Family Networks of Care; Transnational Grandparenting; Race, Ethnicity and Migration; Muslim Minorities in Greece and Europe.
I am an expert in the study of indigenous and migrant Muslim communities in Greece and I have published extensively on this. Between 2010 and 2012 I led the AHRC-funded Islam in Greece project, one of the first projects specifically exploring the role of religion in the experiences of belonging and the interactions between indigenous Muslim communities and newly arriving migrants from predominantly Muslim countries.
I have also carried out extensive research on the interplay between ethnicity and transnational family networks as part of the Families and Social Capital Research Group at London South Bank University . This work resulted in a co-edited Special Issue in the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies on 'Social Capital, Migration and Transnational Family Networks'.
I have also developed pedagogical research on students' experiences of hybrid HE education during and after the pandemic and the role of discipline-specific training for Graduate Teaching Assistance. Following my preliminary research on this, in 2022 I established the ground-breaking Sociology GTA Academy providing extensive subject-specific training and professional development to PhD students who teach. I am currently involved developing this innovative scheme further and after securing FASS funds for a student-staff partnership project, I am working on developing a blueprint for such GTA Academies in other Schools across all Faculties in Surrey.
Supervision
Postgraduate research supervision
I am currently co-supervising the following PhD students:
Vasia Lazari, The use of 鈥渟oft measures鈥 to build tolerance and understanding within and across cultures.
Marjorie Chileka, Exploring the lived experiences of siblings of Zambian individuals with Sickle Cell Disease
Thiago Bogossian, Migration: Polish pupils in an English School
Abubakari Yakubu, A Critical Examination of UK鈥檚 Approach to Receiving and Caring for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC).
I am interested in supervising doctoral students in the following areas: Migration, race and ethnicity; Nationalism, belonging and Identity more broadly; Family relations, transnationalism and social capital, Muslim and minority groups in Greece and Europe; The experience of HE International Students in the UK.
Completed postgraduate research projects I have supervised
Completed PhD students I have previously supervised:
Dr Ioulia Kazana, 2018 Women in Crisis? How Young Greek Women Navigate 鈥楨merging Adulthood鈥 following the Effects of the 2008 Economic Crisis
Dr Paola Eiras, 2020 Cultural Identity of Chinese Students in a Transnational University in China
Dr Lorraine Locke, 2021 An Ethnomethodological analysis of Dream Accounting
Teaching
Over the last 15 years I have taught a variety of UG and PG modules including sociological theories and research methods, migration and citizenship, ethnic and racial studies, gender and family studies, and social capital and transnationalism.
I currently teach undergraduates and postgraduates on the following modules:
SOC1038 Making Sense of Everyday Life
SOC2071 Critical Sociological Thinking
SOC2046 Migration and the Politics of Identity
SOCM061 Methodological Issues in Research Design
Previously I have taught on:
SOC1037 Current Sociology: Topics and Issues
SOC2077 Dimensions of Social Change
SOC3033 Cultures of Race and Racism