MICRO-BIO

• Dr Maria Papapolydorou is a lecturer at the University of Nicosia and the European University in Cyprus. She is also a primary school teacher. Prior to that she worked as a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Greenwich and at Oxford Br...More

  Dr Maria Papapolydorou is a lecturer at the University of Nicosia and the European University in Cyprus. She is also a primary school teacher. Prior to that she worked as a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Greenwich and at Oxford Brookes University. Her research focuses on identities and inequalities (social class, ethnicity and gender) in the field of education. Maria is also interested in social capital theory, particularly from a Bourdieuian point of view, and the way it can be used to explore teenagers’ social networks. Her research outputs include an article published at the British Journal of Sociology of Education, entitled ‘‘When you see a normal person …’: social class and friendship networks among teenage students’. Maria’s PhD thesis examined the relationship between social capital and students’ education. More recently, her research explores the way social class is understood as a concept and as an identity by Higher Education students. Less

EXPERIENCE

• University of Nicosia

  • Lecturer in Comparative Education
  • Education
  • January 2015 to Present

EDUCATION

• Institute of Education, University of London

  • MA Comparative Education
  • September 2016 to August 2017

• University of Cyprus

  • BA Education Sciences
  • September 2012 to June 2016

• Institute of Education, University of London

  • PhD in Sociology of Education
  • September 2007 to September 2011

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