Dr Gregoris Ioannou
BSc, MSc, PhD
Management School
Lecturer in Employment Relations and Human Resource Management
+44 114 222 3265
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Management School
B030
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
- Profile
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Gregoris joined the Management School in September 2021 from the University of Glasgow where he was a Research Fellow. In the past he taught at the University of Cyprus and Frederick University. His research interests include precariousness at work, trade unionism and class composition, contentious politics, and social movements. Gregoris’ work has been published in numerous academic journals including ‘Industrial Relations Journal’ and 'Industrial Law Journal’, in collective volumes and a wide range of non-academic media. He has co-edited a book volume on ‘left radicalism and populism in Europe’ while his first monograph on ‘the normalisation of Cyprus’ partition’ was published in 4 editions and 3 languages. His second monograph on ‘the labour market in Southern Europe since the crisis’ was published by Routledge in 2021. In 2020 he won a prestigious Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship at the University of Glasgow but declined it to move to the University of Sheffield instead.
- Qualifications
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- PhD Sociology - University of Warwick
- MSc Political Sociology - LSE
- BSc International History - LSE
- Research interests
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Gregoris’ research utilises political sociology and political economy frameworks to examine power dynamics in employment relations as well as their cultural and communicational forms. He is interested in labour markets and their regulation at the macro level and how these interact with workplace dynamics at the micro level. He is especially interested in the intersection between ideology and subjectivity and the fields of employment and class. His work addresses this through the interconnecting themes of:
- Precariousness in employment relations
- Trade unionism and class composition
- Contentious politics and mobilisations
His recent monograph on the economic crisis in Southern Europe assessed how the liberalization and deregulation processes and the promotion of market-enhancing reforms progressed in three different national settings, identifying the forces, agents, contexts, and mechanisms shaping the employment relations systems. His previous research on precarious, young workers in Greece and the UK examined their understandings, ideas, and beliefs about their work in relation to the prevailing market values and the axioms of neoliberalism.
- Publications
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Books
- Employment, Trade Unionism and Class: The Labour Market in Southern Europe since the Crisis. Routledge.
- Denktaş Güneyde - Kıbrıs Rum Tarafında Bölünmenin Normalleşmesi. Nicosia: Baranga Publications.
- The Normalisation of Cyprus’ Partition Among Greek Cypriots. Springer International Publishing.
- Ο Ντενκτάς στο νότο: η κανονικοποίηση της διχοτόμησης στην ελληνοκυπριακή πλευρά. Thessaloniki: Psifides.
Edited books
- Left Radicalism and Populism in Europe. London: Routledge.
Journal articles
- Working in hospitality and catering in Greece and the UK: Do trade union membership and collective bargaining still matter?. European Journal of Industrial Relations.
- Special issue, work on demand : editorial introduction. Industrial Law Journal, 50(4), 503-505.
- Contracting for work in tourism and catering in Greece : beyond a state/market dichotomy. Industrial Law Journal. View this article in WRRO
- Anything goes? Exploring the limits of employment law in UK hospitality and catering. Industrial Relations Journal, 52(3), 255-269. View this article in WRRO
- The communicative power of trade unionism : labour law, political opportunity structure and social movement strategy. Industrielle Beziehungen, 27(3-2020), 286-309. View this article in WRRO
- Social activism and the city : cultural sociology and radical politics in 21st century Cyprus. The Cyprus Review, 31(1), 209-238. View this article in WRRO
- Το εργατικό πεδίο στην Κύπρο την περίοδο της κυπριακής ανεξαρτησίας. Theseis.
- Party systems, party-society linkages, and contentious acts : Cyprus in a comparative, Southern European perspective. Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 22(1), 97-119. View this article in WRRO
- Trade unions and politics in Cyprus: a historical comparative analysis across the dividing line. Mediterranean Politics, 22(4), 484-503. View this article in WRRO
- Генеалогия на активизма и семиотика на градското пространство: културни и социални практики във вътрешна Никозия през XXI век = Genealogies of activism and the semiotics of urban space: cultural and social practices in 21st Century Inner Nicosia. Bulgarian Ethnology, XLII, 276-298.
- Labor Force Fragmentation in Contemporary Cyprus. WorkingUSA, 18(4), 595-612.
- Η Αριστερά στην εξουσία: η περίπτωση της Κύπρου = The Left in power: the case of Cyprus. Synchrona Themata.
- No bridge over troubled waters: The Cypriot left in government, 2008-2013. Capital & Class, 39(2), 265-286.
- Employment in crisis: Cyprus 2010–2013. Cyprus Review, 26(1), 107-126.
- Η εργατική τάξη και το συνδικαλιστικό κίνημα στην Κύπρο 1960-2010 = The working class and the trade union movement in Cyprus 1960-2010. Chroniko.
- Η εργατική τάξη και το συνδικαλιστικό κίνημα στην Κύπρο 1920-1960 = The working class and the trade union movement in Cyprus 1920-1960. Chroniko.
- Αγροτικές κολλεκτίβες στην Κύπρο: Εστιάζοντας σε ένα υβρίδιο της ύστερης αποικιακής περιόδου = Agricultural collectives in Cyprus: focusing on a hybrid of the late colonial era. Επετηρίδα Κέντρου Επιστημονικών Ερευνών = Annual Review of the Cyprus Research Centre, 32, 449-476.
Chapters
- Cyprus: Exacerbating Authoritarianism, Governments' Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe (pp. 77-88). Springer International Publishing
- Introducing the topic and the concepts, Left Radicalism and Populism in Europe (pp. 1-30). Routledge
- Conclusions: populism and left radicalism in Europe across time and space In Charalambous G & Ioannou G (Ed.), Left Radicalism and Populism in Europe (pp. 257-265). London: Routledge.
- West European trade unions, labour and ‘the people’: from the golden era to the times of austerity In Charalambous G & Ioannou G (Ed.), Left Radicalism and Populism in Europe (pp. 204-222). London: Routledge.
- Cyprus: a divided island – state with diverging collective bargaining patterns, weakened yet still standing In Müller T, Vandaele K & Waddington J (Ed.), Collective Bargaining in Europe: Towards an Endgame, Vol. I (pp. 109-129). Brussels: ETUI.
- The left and the crisis in Cyprus: ‘In the midst of change they were not changing’ In March L & Keith D (Ed.), Europe’s Radical Left: From Marginality to Mainstream? (pp. 273-288). London: Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd..
- Employment in crisis: Cyprus and the extension of precarity In Jørgensen MB & Schierup C-U (Ed.), Politics of Precarity: Migrant Conditions, Struggles and Experiences (pp. 138-159). Leiden ; Boston: Brill.
- Intercultural Conflict and Dialogue in the Transnational Digital Public Sphere: Findings from the Mig@Net Research Project (2010–2013), The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere (pp. 235-257). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- The connection between trade unions and political parties in Cyprus, Party-Society Relations in the Republic of Cyprus: Political and Societal Strategies (pp. 110-128).
Book reviews
- Book Review: Southern Insurgency, the Coming of the Global Working Class by Immanuel Ness. Capital & Class, 41(3), 591-593. View this article in WRRO
- Chrysostomos Perikleous, The referendum of 2004: the regional and international context, the reception of the solution and the time conjuncture. Cyprus Review, 22, 203-205.
Conference proceedings papers
- The Deterioration of Employment and Working Conditions in the Academia
Reports
- Inter-Communal Contact and Exchange in Cyprus? Higher Education Institutions: Their Potential to Build Trust and Cooperation
- Social Dialogue: International Best Practices and Recommendations for United Cyprus
- Labour Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in the Greek Cypriot Community
- Social Dialogue Environment in the Greek Cypriot Community
- The social and political impact of the Cyprus economic crisis (2010-2017)
- Youth Unemployment in Cyprus: an Examination of the "Lost Generation"
- Trade Unions in Cyprus: History of Division, Common Challenges Ahead
- Intercultural Conflict and Dialogue
Website content
- Civil disobedience contesting Cyprus’ partition: Citizens acting against crossing points closure. View this article in WRRO
- Authoritarianism masking incompetence? The case of the Republic of Cyprus. Retrieved from https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/authoritarianism-masking-incompetence-case-republic-cyprus/ View this article in WRRO
- The Cyprus negotiations: what went wrong?. View this article in WRRO
- Establishing a federal Cyprus.
- Establishing the United Federal Cyprus: a preliminary diagnosis. View this article in WRRO
- Fragmented we fight: what’s Left in Greece in 2015?. Retrieved from https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/fragmented-we-fight/?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=pmd_3IY4X4lrMhk2nf6RBJOMIr_rENlW4VX7h8rZwgRGo64-1635776157-0-gqNtZGzNAjujcnBszQt9
- Employment, Trade Unionism and Class: The Labour Market in Southern Europe since the Crisis. Routledge.
- Research group
- Teaching interests
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Gregoris' approach to teaching seeks to develop students' critical thinking skills and their interest in the study of labour. His teaching is theoretically informed and guided by his research utilising contemporary empirical examples.
Gregoris’ teaching perspective involves the consideration and exploration of the students’ own positionality and evolving experiences and develops learning objectives that understand teaching as a dynamic and collaborative process.
Gregoris’s long experience of educational interactions with diverse groups of students has made him sensitive to identifying differing abilities, aims and ambitions of students and acting in ways that could help them achieve their potential.
He engages students in discussion and aims to both motivate and inspire them through being open and addressing their wider intellectual concerns.
- Teaching activities
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- MGT219 Organisational Behaviour
- MGT226 Human Resource Management
- MGT309 Industrial Relations
- MGT670 International Human Resource Studies
- Professional activities and memberships
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Gregoris is an external Expert for the European Commission, European Centre of Expertise (ECE) in the field of labour law, employment, and labour market policies, an external Expert for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) on Working Conditions and Sustainable Work and has also been consultant for labour relations and trade union issues in Cyprus for the European Trade Union Institute, (ETUI) and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES).
- PhD supervision
Gregoris would be interested in supervising PhD students on topics related to South European countries and more generally on any area relevant to his research interests and expertise.