Dr. Stella Chatzitheochari

Biography

Stella Chatzitheochari is a Reader in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her research interests encompass time-use, childhood disability, social stratification, and longitudinal methods. Chatzitheochari has led significant research, including the Leverhulme Research Project Grant on Educational Pathways and Work Outcomes for Disabled Young People in England. This project aimed to understand the diverse mechanisms through which adolescent disability translates into educational and occupational disadvantage. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator on a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Project focusing on the intersectional effects of disability and social class in becoming Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET). In her teaching, she primarily delivers modules on social research methods and social inequality. Chatzitheochari is open to discussing prospective PhD students interested in sociological investigations into time-use research and disability-related social inequality. Before her tenure at Warwick, she was a John Adams Career Development Fellow at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at UCL Institute of Education and a pre-doctoral Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Surrey. She obtained her doctorate and her M.Phil in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, having previously studied International Relations and Economics in Greece.

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