Curriculum Vitae Name: Dr. Antonios Sapountzis Position: Senior Lecturer Address: Ethnikis Antistasis 3B Kalamaria Thessalonica Greece, 55134 Phone number: 00302310433686 Mobile: 00306976022295 E-mail: a_sapountzis@hotmail.com; ansapoun@psed.duth.gr Academic Record October 1998- February 2002: Ph.D. in Psychology: The dilemma of patriotism vs. nationalism: Greek political party members talk about the Macedonian issue under the supervision of Dr. Susan Condor at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. Funding for the Ph.D. was provided by Lancaster University in the form of a teaching studentship. October 1997 September 1998: M.A. in Critical Social Psychology at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. October 1991 November 1996: B.Sc. in Psychology at Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece. Awarded my degree with overall mark: 6.76 out of 10 (Very Good). Teaching Experience March 2009- present: Coordinator and lecturer of the module Social Psychology at the Department of Educational Sciences in Early Childhood the Democritus University of Thrace. March 2009- present: Coordinator and lecturer of the module Issues of intercultural Social Psychology at the Department of Educational Sciences in Early Childhood at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. September 2009- present: Coordinator and lecturer of the module Methodology of Educational Research I at the Department of Educational Sciences in The Early Childhood at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. September, 2009- present: Coordinator and lecturer of the module Intergoup Relations in Social Psychology at the Department of Educational Sciences in Early Childhood at the Democritus University of Thrace. September 2009- January 2009: Lecturer of the module Seminars in Understanding
and Writing Scientific Texts at the Department of Educational Sciences in Early Childhood at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. February 2010- June 2015: Coordinator (with Alexia Karousou and lecturer of the module Methodology of Educational Research II at the Department of Educational Sciences in Early Childhood at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. October 2010-present: Coordinator (with Alexia Karousou and Vaso Brouskeli) and lecturer of the module: Introduction in Psychology at the Department of Educational Sciences in Early Childhood at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. October 1998 September 2001: Teaching as a part of the teaching studentship awarded by Lancaster University. This involved first year seminars (introductory seminars on various topics of psychology) for two terms, second year practical classes (psychological research methods) for two academic years (four terms), first year practical classes (introduction to psychological research methods) for a year (two terms) and second year practical classes in statistics for two terms (the use of the statistical programme Statistica ). February 2006: Two lectures on discourse analysis and ideological dilemmas. The two lectures were part of the course Methodology in Educational Research which is taught in the M.A. programme of the Department of Primary Education in the School of Education at the Aristotle University of Thessalonica. Research Experience February 2012- present: Contact person of the project Lay and social sciences discourses on identity, migration and citizenship. The project is funded by ERC and it is a Marie Courie reintegration grant whose beneficiary is Maria Xenitidou. March 2012-June 2015: Head of the project Socio-psychological texts and everyday discourse on identity and migration. The research project is implemented within the framework of the Action «Supporting Postdoctoral Researchers» of the Operational Program "Education and Lifelong Learning" (Action s Beneficiary: General Secretariat for Research and Technology), and is cofinanced by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Greek State. Maria Xenitidou is the post-doctoral researcher. February 2007- December 2007: Part- time Research Fellow. Project title: Youth and the Army: aspects of youth s critical discourses towards military service (1981-1995). Funding for this project was provided by the Historical Archive of Greek Youth (Ιστορικό Αρχείο Ελληνικής Νεολαίας). May 2005- December 2006:Post-doctoral researcher. The title of the project was:
Immigration and Greek national identity: Talking about the Greek national identity in a changing social context. The project was funded by the Pythagoras 2 research fund which is under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Education. Senior Lecturer Pavlos Pantazis Department of Primary Education, School of Educational Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessalonica was head of the project. October 1998- February 2002: Ph.D. in Psychology under the title: The dilemma of patriotism vs. nationalism: Greek political party members talk about the Macedonian issue. Conference Presentations May 1997: Nationalism: A socio psychological approach to the nationalistic movement Golden Dawn paper presented at the 12 th World Association for Educational Research, Rhethimnon, Crete. February 2000: Lay accounts of nationalism and patriotism by organised members of political parties. Paper presented at the Primero Congreso International de doctorados/das en Psychologia Social, Barcelona, Spain. July 2000: National accountability and emotions in the articulation of the dilemma of patriotism vs. nationalism. Paper presented at the Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group Annual Conference, Glasgow, UK. July 2001: Defending the Greek minority: the function of nationalism and patriotism in warranting political territory. Paper presented at the in the Annual Social Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, Surrey, UK. September 2004: Redefining minorities and majorities: Formal members of Greek political parties manage the dilemma of patriotism vs nationalism Paper presented at the in the Annual Social Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, Liverpool, UK. September 2005: Constructing the other as a threat: Greek people talk about the Macedonian issue. Paper presented at the 8 th European Conference of Psychological Assessment, Budapest, Hungary. March 2006: The role of the notion of national interest in warranting political decisions. Paper presented at the 2006 conference of the network for life histories and biographical approach at Volos, Greece. April 2007: Immigrants in Greece and Greek emigrants abroad: constructing a common identity in talk about the other. Paper presented at the 11 th Pan- Hellenic conference on Psychological Research, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece. April 2007: The role of the notion of national interest in international conflicts:
political party members talk about the Macedonian issue. Paper presented at the 11 th Pan-Hellenic conference on Psychological Research, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece. June 2007: Immigrants in Greece and Greek emigrants abroad: Constructing a common ingroup identity when talking about the immigrant other. Paper presented at the CRONEM conference, Surrey, UK. May 2009: Immigrant children in schools: Locus of social integration and social exclusion? Paper presented at the 12 th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Psychological Research of the Greek Psychological Association, Volos, Greece. September 2010: Discourses of acculturation in Greece: Dilemmas of integration, assimilation and prejudice. Paper presented at the BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference Social Psychology in Action: Theoretical debate and social impact, Winchester, UK. December, 2010: Discourses on the acculturation of immigrant students in Greece: Dilemmas of power and prejudice. Paper presented at the 3 rd International Conference of Psychological Association of Northern Greece: Children and Youth in Changing societies, Thessalonica, Greece. May, 2011: The Greek School in crisis: The construction of immigrant children in the discourse of the Greek majority group. Paper presented at the 13 th Pan- Hellenic Conference of Psychological Research, of the Greek Psychological Association, Athens, Greece. July, 2011: The movement for the army in Greece through the left-wing magazines of the 1980 s. Presentation in the 34 th annual conference of the International Political Psychology Society Cooperation and Human Societies: Towards a Multidisciplinary Social Psychology, which took place in Istanbul. May, 2013: The construction of heterosexism in young people s discourse: the dilemma of normality and rights. Paper presented at the 14 th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Psychological Research of the Greek Psychological Association, Alexandroupoli, Greece. July, 2014: Citizenship in harsh eras: Immigrant and Greek majority discourses on civic participation. Presentation at the 37 th annual conference of the International Political Psychology Society, Rome, Italy. May, 2015: Migration and Greek national identity: An often awkward relationship? (with Pavlos Pantazis). Presentation at the 15 th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Psychological Research of the Greek Psychological Association, Nicosia, Cyprus. May, 2015: I am a bit racist but...: the new normal in discourse on migration in
Greece? (with Maria Xenitidou). Presentation at the 15 th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Psychological Research of the Greek Psychological Association, Nicosia, Cyprus. Selected Publications Σαπουντζής, Α (2006). Η εναλλαγή ιδιαίτερων/εθνικών και οικουμενικών θεμάτων στη διαχείρηση του διλήμματος εθνικισμός/πατριωτισμός. Ψυχολογία, 12 (4): pp: 605-624. (The interchange between particular/national and international themes in managing the dilemma of nationalism vs. Patriotism[In Greek]). Ψυχολογία, Sapountzis, A., Figgou, E., Pantazis, P., Laskaridis, G., Papastavrou, D., Bozatzis, N. & Gardikiotis, A. (2006). Immigration and European Integration in Greece: Greek national identity and the Other within. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, vol 3 (3): pp: 27-47. (Peer reviewed). Sapountzis, A. (2008). Towards a critical social psychological account of national sentiments: patriotism and nationalism revisited. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, vol: 2/1, pp: 34-50 Figgou, L., Sapountzis, A., Bozatzis, N., Gardikiotis, A. & Pantazis, P. (2011). Constructing the stereotype of immigrants criminality: Accounts of fear and risk in talk about immigration to Greece. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 21, 164-177. Sapountzis, A., Figgou, L., Bozatzis, N., Gardikiotis, A., & Pantazis P. (2013). Categories We Share : Mobilising Common In-groups in Discourse on Contemporary Immigration in Greece. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 23 (4), 347-361. Sapountzis, A. (2013). Dominant group members talk about the acculturation of immigrants in Greece: who is in charge of the acculturation process? Hellenic Journal of Psychology, 10 (1), 24-46. Sapountzis, A. & Condor, S. (2013). Conspiracy accounts as intergroup theories: Challenging dominant understandings of social power and political legitimacy. Political Psychology, 34 (5), 731-752. Σαπουντζής, Α. (2013). Ιδεολογικά διλήμματα για τον επιπολιτισμό των παιδιών των μεταναστών στα πλαίσια του ελληνικού σχολείου (Ideological dilemmas on the acculturation of immigrants children in the context of the Greek school [In Greek]). Επετηρίδα του Τμήματος Ψυχολογίας του Α.Π.Θ, 10, 446-473. Σαπουντζής Α. & Χατζηστεργίου, Μ. (2013). Η κατασκευή του ετεροσεξισμού στο λόγο των νέων: το δίλημμα «κανονικότητας» και «δικαιωμάτων» (The construction of heterosexism in young people s discourse: the dilemma of normality and rights [In Greek]). Ψυχολογία, 20 (1), 82-99.
Σαπουντζής, Α. (2013). Η πολιτειότητα ως ρητορικό εφόδιο κατά της μετανάστευσης στο λόγο για την απόδοση ιθαγένειας στους μετανάστες: Η περίπτωση της εφημερίδας Α1 (Citizenship as rhetorical recourse against immigration in discourse on citizenship acquisition by immigrants: The case of A1 newspaper [In Greek]). Ψυχολογία, 20 (4), 446-464. Sapountzis, A., & Vikka, K. (2015). Psychologization in talk and the perpetuation of racism in the context of the Greek school. Social Psychology of Education, 18, 373-391. Professional Experience April 1996 July 1996: Vocational Training in Clinical Psychology as a part of my B.Sc. in Psychology. Duties involved interviewing out-patients in order to evaluate their mental health condition and also some training in a psychiatric clinic. Moreover part of my Vocational training took place in a consultancy centre for drug abusers. March 2002 May 2003: Military service in Greece as a clinical psychologist. Duties involved visiting military units and interviewing the soldiers in order to diagnose any possible mental health problems. In addition my duties included assessing stress levels and living conditions in the units I was visiting. The results were reported back to the Greek Army headquarters. April 2004- July 2004: I was appointed as Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Psychology at Lancaster University undertaking collaborative writing with members of the Department. November 2007- June 2009: Psychologist working for the Ministry of Justice in the Kassavetia prison, Volos. Language Literacy Greek (native). English: June 1989: First Certificate in English, awarded by the University of Cambridge, UK. February 1997: International English Language Testing System (IELTS), awarded by the University of Cambridge, UK. Spanish: July 1994: Diploma Basico de Espanol, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. February 1996: Diploma Superior de Espanol, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.