About
Afroditi is a media and communications scholar whose research explores convergencies between sociology, urban studies and media and communications. Her interest in migration in the city is sociologically driven but is grounded in media and communications. She completed her fully-funded ESRC PhD in the LSE Department of Media and Communications.
She was a Guest Teacher in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is an Associate Fellow of AdvanceHE.
Afroditi has worked as a researcher at the Migration and the Media project, Resilient Communities, Resilient Cities? Digital makings of the city of refuge, and recently completed the Mobile Citizenship, States of Exception and (non)Border Regimes in post - COVID - 19 Cyprus project.
Awards:
Class Teacher Award 2022/20233
Excellent in Education Award 2021/2022
Ethnicity and Race in Communication, International Communication Association 2022
ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership Grant
Colin Seymour-Ure Prize 2015
Research
Expertise:
Identity; Migration; Media; Encounters; Crisis
Publications:
Kissas, A., and Koulaxi, AM. (2023) Communicating Femicide through Greek Social Media: the Case of Populist Critique. Media@LSE Working Paper Series, available here
Trimikliniotis, Georgiou, Kaymak, Koulaxi, Mevsimler, Charalambous, Tsianos, Demetriou, Sitas, Anastasiou, and Achiri (2023) Mobile Citizenship, States of Exception and (non) Border Regimes in the Pandemic and Post-Covid19 Cyprus, available here
Koulaxi, A.M (2022) Citizen identity through the encounter: a kaleidoscopic view of Athenians’ encounters with migrants in a city of compounded crises. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science, available here
Kong, J. and Koulaxi, A.M (2022) Re-thinking virtual writing retreats in the Covid-19 higher education environment Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching, available here
Koulaxi, A.M (2021) Convivial reflexivity in the changing city – a tale of hospitality or hostility? International Journal of Cultural Studies, online first, available here
Teaching
Engagement and impact
Talks and conferences
- International Communication Association, paper with Dr Angelos Kissas: Femicide and the politics of victimhood on social media: the Greek case, 23-30 May 2023
- IAMCR Conference, paper with Dr Angelos Kissas: Femicide and the politics of victimhood on social media: the Greek case, 11-16 July 2022
- International Communication Association, paper: Convivial Reflexivity in the Changing City – a Tale of Hospitality of Hostility, 26-30 May 2022
- International Conference on Education: paper with Jessica Kong: Re-thinking Virtual Writing Retreats in the Covid-19 Higher Education Environment, 8-12 August 2021
- IAMCR Conference, paper: How Migration Crisis Galvanises Identity: Between Vulnerability and Resilience 11-16 July 2021
- Teaching and Learning Conference 2021: Teaching in the Spotlight: What is the Future for HE Curricula? by AdvanceHE, paper with Jessica Kong: Re-thinking Virtual Writing Retreats in the Covid-19 Higher Education Environment, 5-8 July 2021
- Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday Online Conference, paper: Kaleidoscopic Identities: Affectively Liberated, Ideologically Incarcerated, 21-23 April 2021
- IAMCR Conference, paper: Everyday Encounters in a Multicultural Neighbourhood of Athens, 7-11 July 2019
- Human and non-human migration and mobility’ Symposium, paper presented: Identity, Migration and the Media in a City of Compounded Crisis, Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics, University of Brighton, 25 March 2019
- MeCCSA 2019 Conference ‘Continuity and Change – Media, Communications and Politics’, paper presented: The Mediation of Migration ‘Crisis’: Towards a Research Framework, University of Stirling, 9-11 January 2019
- POLIS Conference “Journalism in Crisis”, ‘Greek media treatment of the “refugee crisis”, initial findings of the content analysis presented – part of the ‘Media and Migration’ project, London, United Kingdom, April 2016
- Mediation of Migration Event, Poster presentation of my content analysis findings - part of the ‘Media and Migration’ project, London, United Kingdom, November 2016