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Biography
Dr Eugenia Katartzi is an Assistant Professor in Sociology of Education and Migration.
After completing my PhD at the University of Edinburgh, I have held various teaching and research roles, having worked for projects in Scotland, England and Greece in the areas of inter/multicultural education and migration, European education policy, and Vocational to Higher Education transitions.
Expertise Summary
I have an expanding expertise in sociology of education and migration, childhood and youth. My research interests are located at study of young people's intersecting identities and educational trajectories, as these are shaped by global migration and displacement dynamics and growing inequalities.
My previous work has empirically documented and theorised young people's ethno-cultural identities, belonging and post-compulsory education transitions. My current work takes an interdisciplinary approach to unpacking the impact of forced migration and displacement on refugee and asylum-seeking young people's sense of self and agency. Another strand of my work examines refugee higher educational governance through a comparative lens.
Key Projects
Self and Agency in Displacement:The case of Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children in Greece, funded by the British Academy
Refugee higher education governance in England and Germany: Towards an intersectional social justice framework, funded by the International Research Collaborative Fund of the Universities of Nottingham and Tübingen (Co-I L. Damaschke-Deitrick)
Publications
Katartzi, E. (2025) Governing Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children: Border Violence, De-Subjectification and Humanitarianism in Southern European Borderlands, Children and Society, https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12981
Katartzi, E. (2021) Migrant young people's narratives of aspirations: The role of migrant positionality, habitus and capitals, Intercultural Education, 32:1, 32-45, https://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2020.1841540
Hayward G., Katartzi, E., Ertl, H. and Hoelscher, M. (2021) Degrees of Success: The Transitions from Vocational to Higher Education. Emerald Publishing, doi.org/10.1108/9781800431928
Katartzi, E and Hayward, G (2020) Conceptualising transitions from vocational to higher education: bringing together Bourdieu and Bernstein, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41:3, 299 314, DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2019.1707065
Katartzi, E. and Hayward, G. (2019) Transitions to Higher Education: The Case of Students with VET background in UK, Studies in Higher Education DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2019.1610866
Ertl, H., Hayward, G. and Katartzi, E. (2019) Transitions from vocational to higher education: policy context and practice in England. In B. Hemkes, K. Wilbers and M. Heister Durchlässigkeit zwischen beruflicher und hochschulischer Bildung. [Higher Education and Vocational Education in Europe], pp. 531-551 Bonn: BIBB
Katartzi, E. (2018) Young migrants' narratives of collective identifications and belonging, Childhood, 25:1,34-46
Katartzi, E. (2017) Unpacking young people's national identities: The role of ethno-cultural and religious allegiances, history and 'Others', Young , 26(3), pp.1-17
Katartzi, E. (2017) Unpacking Young Migrants' Collective Identities: The Case of Ethnonational Identifications and Belonging, Children and Society 31(6):452-462, DOI:10.1111/chso.12219
Hayward, G. and Katartzi, E. (2017) Youth, precarity and the educational delusion. In S.M. Natale and A.F. Libertella A.F. (Ed.) Wealth Equity Dynamics: Economic and Education Challenges, New York: Global Scholarly Press
Katartzi, E. (2017) Youth, family and education: exploring the Greek case of parentocracy, International Studies in Sociology of Education, 26(3): 310-325
Doctoral Topics
I welcome doctoral applications in the areas of:
-impact of forced migration/ displacement on children's and young people's lived experiences and life outcomes
- refugee, migrant education and diversity policies
- intersecting child and youth identities and
-post-compulsory, Vocational and Higher education transitions and inequalities