Stergios Magkriotis
Job Title
PhD title: “When you are eating food, you are alive, but for life in your mind you have to have something more” Everyday informal support among refugees at a social kitchen in Athens
City (Address)
EdinburghCountry (Address)
UKResearch interests
Research interests
Displacement, Refugee Livelihoods, Everyday Life, Food Practices, Materiality, Visual Sociology, Human Geography, Ethnography
Background
Qualifications
- Associate Fellow of the HEA
- MSc Sociology and Global Change, University of Edinburgh (2017)
Dissertation title: Spatial Dynamics and Shifting Roles at the gate of Europe. Narratives from Skala Sykamias. - Integrated MA in Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University (2010 - 2016)
Dissertation title: The phenomenon of homelessness in Greece today.
Research experience
- Research Assistant, Gracemount Community Garden, Food & Common Good Oral Archive, University of Edinburgh. December 2021 – ongoing.
- Research Assistant, POLART project, University of Edinburgh, June – July 2022.
- Research Assistant, The Disembedded Laboratory – Torsten Husén and the Internationalisation of Educational Research for Policy. January – May 2022.
- Research Assistant, Governing the Sustainable Development Goals: Quantification in Global Social Policy. July – August 2020.
Teaching experience
Guest Lecturer, The Social Life of Food, University of Edinburgh, 2022-23; 2023-24; 2024-25
Guest Lecturer, Key Concepts in Global Social Change, Sociology and Global Change MSc, University of Edinburgh, 2022-23; 2023-24;
Tutor, The Social Life of Food, University of Edinburgh, 2021-22; 2022-23; 2023-24; 2024-25
Senior Tutor, Sociology 2a: Thinking Sociologically, University of Edinburgh, 2021-22; 2022-23; 2023-24; 2024-25
Tutor, Sociology 2a: Thinking Sociologically, University of Edinburgh, 2020-21
Tutor, Sociology 1b: The Sociological Imagination: Private Troubles, Public Problems,
University of Edinburgh, 2019-20; 2020-21
Publications
Wahlen S., Plessz M., Dean W., Ditlevsen K., Magkriotis S., and Ramos V.. "Intersectionality and food consumption: a roundtable", Consumption and Society 2, 1 (2023): 122-135, https://doi.org/10.1332/CQKW6251
Magkriotis, S. (2020). Book Review: Under Every Yard of Sky by Meyer, S., Red Hook Editions 2019. Visual Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2020.1848452
Magkriotis, S. (2020). Book Review: Bordering by Yuval-Davis, N. Wemyss, G. and Cassidy, K., Polity Press 2019. Journal of Refugee Studies. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feaa045
Conference Presentations
- Intersectionalities of Food Practices (roundtable) (ESA RN 05 mid-term conference, Sociology of Consumption in Oslo Met, 31 August - 2 September 2022)
- Beyond substance - Social, interpersonal and emotional meanings of food practices for refugees in Athens (Bridg’it network annual conference in Denmark 18-20 May 2022)
- The Artefacts of Displacement: Documents of life, practices and the livelihood of refugees in camps (International Visual Sociology Association 2019 annual conference in Skidmore College, New York, U.S.A. 20 – 22 June)
- Politicising the visual representations of a ‘refugee crisis’ (International Visual Sociology Association 2018 annual conference in Evry, France 25-28 June)
- Refugee flows, spatial dynamics and social shifts at the ‘gate’ of Europe Narratives from Skala Sykamias (Social Work, Education and Social Development Joint World Conference in Dublin, Irland, 4 - 6 July 2018)