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Efstathiou Ippokratis

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Adjunct Academic Staff

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Email

ifstathiou@uniwa.gr

Academic area   

Social Work

 

Teaching modules   

  • Community Social Work
  • Mental Health
  • Social Work & homelessness

 

Brief CV 

Ippokratis Efstathiou is a PhD candidate and adjunct Academic Staff in the Department of Social Work at the University of Western Attica, Greece. He holds an MSc in Social Discrimination, Migration and Citizenship, and a degree in Social Work from the Technological Educational Institute of Patras. As a Social Worker, he has been engaged in fieldwork projects related to homelessness, migration, community work as well as mental health units. As a professional, he has also participated in Crisis Intervention missions in Ukraine, Turkey, Mati, and Northern Evia area in Greece. He has also been involved in research regarding mental health, homelessness, community social work and crisis interventions.

 

 

BSc: Social Work, Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece.

MSc: Social Discrimination, Migration and Citizenship, Social and educational policy Dpt, University of Peloponnese, Greece.

PhD (Candidate): Social Work, University of West Attica, Greece

 

  • Community Development and Advocacy
  • Mental Health and Well-being
  • Aging and Gerontology
  • Social Justice and Equity

 

  • Being elected as PhD Board Member in the European Social Work Research Association (2023)
  • Participation in the research project “MAMMOth > Multi-Attribute, Multimodal Bias Mitigation in AI Systems”, under the umbrella of the European program “HORIZON EUROPE 2022” (HORIZON- CL4-2021-HUMAN-01) in the capacity of “Social expert on fieldwork research”.
  • Coordination and participation in the research “Investigation of the needs of the local community of the Municipality Nea Smyrni” in collaboration with IASIS NGO and the Municipality of Nea Smyrni.
  • Scientific subject: Community Work – Undergraduate course (160 hours) – “Supporting the educational activities of the University of Attica by integrating teaching in addition to the main lectures for the academic years 2021-2023”
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  • Editing of a chapter in the collective volume “Innovation Actions in Social Work”, by Dritsa I., Tsoukarelli P., and Parlari S. Papazisi Publications, 2022.
  • Social interventions in times of war: The experience of a social worker in the border local communities of Ukraine – Paper published in the proceedings of the Greek conference
  • “Community Intervention”: An important action to support socially excluded vulnerable groups – Article published in “Lifo” magazine