Danai Konstantinidou

Profile

Thesis supervisors

• Dr Naomi Finch

Research topic

The effect of social transfers on poverty and deprivation.

Research interests

• Comparative social policy analysis.

Biography

Danai completed her undergraduate studies in Political Science and Public Administration at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece). After that, she pursued a Master's degree in European and International Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece).

Since February 2017, she is a Research Fellow (external collaborator) at the Greek National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), where she participates in various research projects. She received an MA in Social Research from the University of York in 2021 and she is currently an ESRC-funded PhD candidate in the School for Business and Society. At the same time, she is a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the School and the Expert for Greece in socio-economic analysis in the fields of social protection and social inclusion in the context of the European Social Policy Network. 

Publications

• European Social Policy Network (ESPN): ESPN Country Profiles as well as ESPN national Thematic Reports for Greece on a number of topics including (selection): “Making access to social protection for workers and the self-employed more transparent through information and simplification” (2022), “Social protection for people with disabilities” (2022), “Making access to social protection for workers and the self-employed more transparent through information and simplification” (2022), “Access to social protection for young people” (2021), “Social protection and inclusion policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis“ (2021), “Long-term care for older people in EU Member States” (2020), “Pension adequacy” (2017 and 2020), “Financing social protection” (2019), “Long-term care” (2018), “Homelessness and housing exclusion” (2019), “In-work poverty” (2018), “Inequalities in access to healthcare” (2018). 
• National reports for Greece produced as internal documents for the Commission (DG EMPL) in the context of the first and second phases of the EU Feasibility Study for a Child Guarantee (2018-2020).

Other recent publications (selection):

• Capella, A., Konstantinidou, D. and Theodoroulakis, M. (2022). Gender Pension Gap: the case of Greece. Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 16, pp. 10-29.
• Capella, A. and Konstantinidou, D. (2021). The state of play of the gender pension gap in Greece: main drivers, quantitative analysis and policy proposals, In Stangos, P. and Charamara, E. (Eds). Gender inequalities and women’s rights in Greece today. Athens: Nomiki Vivliothiki, pp. 61-71 (in Greek).
• Ziomas, D., Capella, A. and Konstantinidou, D. (2020). Case study Integrating refugee and migrant children into the education system in Greece. In European Commission (2020). Feasibility Study for a Child Guarantee Case studies on the effectiveness of funding programmes – Key findings and study reports. Brussels: European Commission.