Dr Konstantinos Roussos

Biography

I am a Lecturer at the School of Health and Social Care, where I teach in the Social Work and Social Justice Division. I am co-lead of the School's Critical Public Health and Social Policy research group and co-director of the Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis at the University of Essex. I received my PhD in Government from the University of Essex in 2020. In my research I adopt a discourse analysis approach in the study of social welfare and care, practices of commoning and solidarity, and social movements and social justice. Most of my research revolves around the broad theme of radical democratic and grassroots approaches in welfare provisioning in the context of multiple and interconnected crises. My current areas of interest and research include: • Social Work and Welfare policy and practice discourses, focusing on questions of power, critique and social justice; • Grassroots welfare movements, with a focus on social and solidarity health clinics, community food initiatives, care, and the environment; • Commons, prefigurative politics and alternative economies, with particular reference to processes of subjectivation, social organisation and relatedness; • Critical approaches in understanding democratic engagement and involvement in health and welfare services; • Participatory and creative methodologies in research with communities and people;

Qualifications

• PhD in Government University of Essex,

• MA in Political Sociology Panteion University,

• BA in Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies University of Macedonia,