Dr Konstantinos Roussos
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
I am a Lecturer at the School of Health and Social Care, where I teach in the Social Work and Social Justice Division. I am co-lead of the School's Critical Public Health and Social Policy research group and co-director of the Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis at the University of Essex. I received my PhD in Government from the University of Essex in 2020. In my research I adopt a discourse analysis approach in the study of social welfare and care, practices of commoning and solidarity, and social movements and social justice. Most of my research revolves around the broad theme of radical democratic and grassroots approaches in welfare provisioning in the context of multiple and interconnected crises. My current areas of interest and research include: • Social Work and Welfare policy and practice discourses, focusing on questions of power, critique and social justice; • Grassroots welfare movements, with a focus on social and solidarity health clinics, community food initiatives, care, and the environment; • Poststructuralist Discourse Theory (Essex School) • Commons, prefigurative politics and alternative economies, with particular reference to processes of subjectivation, social organisation and relatedness; • Critical approaches in understanding democratic engagement and involvement in health and welfare services; • Participatory and creative methodologies in research with communities and people;
Qualifications
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PhD in Government University of Essex,
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MA in Political Sociology Panteion University,
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BA in Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies University of Macedonia,
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Social Work and Social Welfare policy and practice discourses
Grassroots welfare movements
Commons, prefigurative politics and alternative economies
Democratic engagement and involvement in health and welfare services
Postructuralist Discourse Theory
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Introduction to Sociological and Psychological Frameworks (HS190)
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Introduction to Research Methodologies (HS290)
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Legislation, Regulation and Ethics for Practice (HS292)
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Independent Study (HS390)
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Critical Reflection and Professional Challenge (HS391)
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Using Research and Evidence in Social Work Practice (HS633)
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Foundations of Social Work Theory and Practice (HS650)
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Law, Policy and Ethics (HS651)
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Rights Based Research and Dissertation (HS657)
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Social Work Dissertation (HS659)
Current supervision
Publications
Journal articles (5)
Howarth, D. and Roussos, K., (2023). Radical Democracy, the Commons and Everyday Struggles during the Greek Crisis. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 25 (2), 311-327
Glynos, J., Roussos, K., Voutyras, S. and Warren, R., (2023). Paradoxes in the management of timebanks in the UK’s voluntary sector: discursive bricolage and its limits. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 34 (3), 486-496
Roussos, K. and Malamidis, H., (2021). Social Movements and the Commons: A Framework for Understanding Collective Action in Crisis-Ridden Southern Europe. Mobilization: An International Quarterly. 26 (3), 359-379
Glynos, J., Howarth, D., Flitcroft, R., Love, C., Roussos, K. and Vazquez, J., (2021). Logics, discourse theory and methods Advances, challenges and ways forward. Journal of Language and Politics. 20 (1), 62-78
Roussos, K., (2019). Grassroots collective action within and beyond institutional and state solutions: the (re-)politicization of everyday life in crisis-ridden Greece. Social Movement Studies. 18 (3), 265-283
Book chapters (3)
Roussos, K., Malamidis, H. and Gkagkelis, V., (2024). Cooperative media and the politics of class: Exploring post-capitalist logics in the cooperative media of Ef.Syn and AlterThess. In: Class, Culture, and the Media in Greece, Volume 2: Neoliberalism(s), the Mainstream, Counter-cultures. Editors: Mylonas, Y. and Psyllakou, E., . Palgrave Macmillan. 978-3-031-55158-1
Warren, R., Steinhoff, A., Glynos, L. and Roussos, K., (2024). The Accountability Assembly as a Counter-Accounting Performance. In: Handbook of Accounting in Society. Editors: Vollmer, H., . Edward Elgar. 310- 327. 978-1-80392-199-0
Roussos, K., Vazquez Garcia, J. and Voutyras, S., (2023). Reflections on grassroots healthcare provisioning in Greece in times of crisis. In: Social Movements and Everyday Acts of Resistance. Editors: . Routledge. 26- 41. 9781032201887
Reports and Papers (3)
Warren, R. and Roussos, K., Mercury Theatre: A social Return on Investment of the Mercury Playwrights
Warren, R., Glynos, J., Roussos, K., Jimena, V., Steinhoff, A. and Crippa, L., Democracy in Action - Building Better Communities And Organisations Through Collective Decision Making and Action - Project Evaluation
Roussos, K., Schneider, J., Warren, R. and Jennett, J., (2024). The Bringing Community Supermarkets to Essex Programme: A “Social Return on Investment” Approach on Sustainable Community Assets for Social Support and Care
Thesis dissertation (1)
Roussos, K., (2020). Collective Action and the Production of Alternatives in the Crisis-ridden European South: Understanding the Politics of Commoning and Solidarity through the Greek Experience
Grants and funding
2023
Full-length Documentary on Contemporary Cooperativism in Greece
Sustanability.Health.Environmment.Development S-H-E-D
Pursuing Independent Paths KTP
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board)
The case of Community Supermarkets at Essex: a Participatory Research on sustainable community assets for social support and care
UOE Participatory Research Fund
Community and Residents Experience
North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
Community and Residents Experience
North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
2022
Independent research and evaluation of the Essex County Council Community Supermarkets
Essex County Council
The case of Community Supermarkets at Essex: sustainable community assets for social support and care
University of Essex (CPPE)
2021
Creative Exchange: Using digital platforms to support peer-based exchange in the creative sector feasibility study
Hub Arts Lab CIC
2020
Subjectivity and valuation in community economies: A pilot study of the Essex time banks
University of Essex (ESRC IAA)
