STAVROU Sophia
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Sophia Stavrou is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus. She is also an Associate Researcher at the Mediterranean Centre for Sociology, Political Science and History (MESOPOLHIS UMR 7064). She studied sociology at university (Licence, Maîtrise, Master) and obtained a PhD in Sociology from Aix-Marseille University in 2012, working in the LAMES laboratory. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the research project "Enhancing Employability of Graduates of Humanities and Social Sciences" (E.U.G.E, Postdoctoral Programmes 2016, University of Cyprus). She taught at the University of Cyprus, Department of Social and Political Sciences (2013-2017) and at Aix-Marseille University, Department of Sociology (2006-2010) and worked as a Researcher at the National Research Institute INRP in Lyon (2006-2008). She has also participated in large-scale international research programmes in the fields of European policies to combat social inequalities in education, intra-European youth migration in the context of the economic crisis and youth employment. She is currently a researcher on the international PPECPA project 'A Sociology of humanisation of elder care through continuous training', funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, and coordinator of the YOUTHTRAMS programme 'From Higher Education to Work: Sociology of Youth Trajectories in the Making', funded by UCY. Her work has been published in international scientific journals such as International Studies in Sociology of Education, Journal of Youth Studies, Journal of Education Policy, Sociologie du Travail, Mots. Les Langages du Politique, among others, as well as in collective works published by international university publishing houses. She is notably the author of the monograph L'Université au diapason du Marché (L'Harmattan-Academia, 2017).
Functions
- Lecturer in Sociology, University of Cyprus
- Associate researcher Mesopolhis UMR 7064 Aix-Marseille University
Productions
WORKS
Stavrou S., 2017, L'Université au diapason du marché. A sociology of curricular change in French universities, Louvain-la-Neuve, Academia-L'Harmattan, 322p. ISBN: 978-2-8061-0325-3.
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES
Loffeier I., Poulet C. and S. Stavrou, 2022, "Changer les établissements pour personnes âgées par les mots?", Tracés. Revue de Sciences Humaines, n°43.
Stavrou S., 2022, "Structuring forms of transition from higher education to employment: bridging Bernstein and Bourdieu in understanding mismatch", Journal of Education and Work, DOI: 10.1080/13639080.2022.2036709
Stavrou S. and P. Achniotis, 2021, "Towards a revaluation of work in post-Fordist societies? Critical reconversions of highly skilled youth and negotiations of fluid relationships with work", Journal of Youth Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2021.2010685
Poulet C., I. Loffeier and S. Stavrou, 2021, "Humaniser le soin aux personnes âgées? Réponses transnationales du marché de la formation continue", Sociologie du travail, Vol. 63 - No. 4, October-December. DOI : 10.4000/sdt.40394
Stavrou S., 2019, 'When the politics of employability leads to the regionalisation of the social sciences', Revue d'Anthropologie des Connaissances, 18(3), p.171-193, DOI :10.3917/rac.042.0171
Ballatore M. and Stavrou S., 2017, "Internationalization policy as (re)producer of social inequalities. The example of the Erasmus student mobility program", Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, (2), April-June, Special Issue "Inequalities of access to higher education: the role of policies, institutions and markets", pp. 251-282, DOI: 10.1423/87309.
Stavrou S., 2016, "Pedagogising the University: On higher education policy implementation and its effects on social relations", Journal of Education Policy, 31(6), p.789-804, DOI:10.1080/02680939.2016.1188216
Stavrou S., 2013a, "Des discours politiques aux discours d'évaluation. Autour de la réforme des formations universitaires", Mots. Les langages du politique, ENS Editions, Juillet, n°102, p.85-102, https://journals.openedition.org/mots/21357
Stavrou S., 2012, "The connection between university and labour market through the prism of the recontextualisation of curricula in the French universities", Academia. A publication of the Higher Education Policy Network, Vol.2, n°1, p.31-68 https://doi.org/10.26220/aca.2001
Stavrou S., 2011, "La professionnalisation des formations universitaires. De l'expertise aux effets curriculaires", Cahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs, Editions MSH, n°3 hors-série, June, p.93-110 http://journals.openedition.org/cres/127
Stavrou S., 2009, "Negotiating curriculum change in the French university. The case of regionalising social scientific knowledge", International Studies in Sociology of Education, 19(1), p.19-36 DOI: 10.1080/09620210903057624
CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIVE WORKS
Stavrou S., 2021, "Le procès curriculaire comme objet sociologique", in Ramognino N. and Ariane Richard-Bossez (eds), La connaissance au cœur du social. Catégories élémentaires et activités éducatives, Collection Epistémologie et Philosophie des Sciences, Paris, L'Harmattan, pp. 235-256. ISBN : 978-2-343-22091-8
Stavrou S., 2017, "Évaluer la qualité des formations : entre système d'évaluation par les pairs et dispositif de cadrage technico-pratique", in C. Barats, J. Bouchard and A. Haakenstad, Faire et dire l'évaluation. Regards des sciences sociales sur les fabriques contemporaines de l'évaluation dans l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche, Presses des Mines, Collection Sciences Sociales, p. 219-235. ISBN: 9782356714855
Stavrou S., 2016, "Changing official knowledge in economy-based societies: higher education policy, projected identities and the epistemic shift", in P. Vitale and B. Exley (ed.), Pedagogic Rights and Democratic Education: Bernsteinian explorations of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment, London, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, pp.118-132. ISBN 9781138898097
Stavrou S., 2014, "De l'acte régulateur à la possibilité d'une institution cognitive collective. Les enjeux politiques et démocratiques de l'évaluation dans l'enseignement supérieur", in C. Fallon, B. Leclercq (ed.), Leurres de la qualité dans l'enseignement supérieur? Variations internationales sur un thème ambigu, Louvain-la-Neuve, Academia-L'Harmattan, Collection Thélème, pp.217-232. ISBN : 978-2-8061-0113-6
Stavrou S., 2011, "Reviewing recontextualisation of knowledge at university. From Bernstein's theory to empirical research", in D. Frandji and P. Vitale (ed.), Knowledge, Pedagogy & Society, London, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, pp.143-159.
Stavrou S., 2008, "La recontextualisation à l'épreuve de la sociologie empirique des curricula: éléments de recherche sur la régionalisation du savoir", in D. Frandji and P. Vitale (ed.) Actualité de Basil Bernstein : savoir, pédagogie et société, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Collection Le sens social, pp. 171-187. EAN : 9782753507432
ENCYCLOPAEDIC ENTRIES
Stavrou S., 2020, "European Higher Education Area" (3000 words), In Amey M.J. and David M.E. (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education, Volume 2 (pp. 486-490). London, UK: Sage Publishing, inc. Print ISBN:9781473942912, https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/the-sage-encyclopedia-of-higher-education/i6569.xml.
Stavrou S., 2020, "French Higher Education" (1000 words), In Amey M.J. and David M.E. (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education, Volume 2 (pp. 566-568). London, UK: Sage Publishing, inc, Print ISBN:9781473942912, https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/the-sage-encyclopedia-of-higher-education/i7337.xml.
CRITICAL NOTES
Stavrou S., 2014, "Émile Durkheim, Η εξέλιξη της παιδαγωγικής σκέψης", Academia. A publication of the Higher Education Policy Network, Vol.4, n°1, pp.117-129 (in Greek).
Stavrou S., 2007, "Note critique de l'ouvrage de B. Bernstein, Pédagogie, Contrôle symbolique et identité. Théorie, recherche, critique", Revue Française de Pédagogie, n°158, pp.165-168.