Yfanti Aggeliki

Aggeliki Yfanti holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Social Policy at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, a master’s degree from the same department and a ptyhion from the Department of Sociology at the same university. She served as Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology for two academic years (2019-2021) teaching the following undergraduate courses: “Methods of data collection in quantitative research”, “Methods of data analysis in quantitative research” and “Social research and mixed methods”. Since 2020, she has been working as a data analyst for the department of Statistics and Analysis at the Greek Public Employment Service. In 2017, she was national scientific consultant of the International Labour Organization (ILO) for supporting a new generation of Public Works Schemes (Kinofelis) in Greece. She has extensive experience as a researcher in many European, national and co-funded research programmes at the Centre of Gender Studies of the Department of Social Policy, the National Center for Social Research (EKKE), the University Research Institute of Mental Health and several NGOs. In 2020, she was awarded with the Young Researcher Award from the Research Network 21 “Quantitative Methods” of the European Sociological Association for the best paper of young researchers: Yfanti, A., Michalopoulou, C., and Zachariou, S. (2020). The implications of applying alternative-supplementary measures of the unemployment rate to regions: Evidence from the European Union Labour Force Survey for Southern Europe, 2008-2015. In C. H. Skiadas & C. Skiadas (Eds), Demography of Population Health, Aging and Health Expenditures, (pp. 419-433). The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis 50. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-44695-6_28. In the 2021 Conference of the European Sociological Association, she was proposed and became a member of the Board of the Research Network 21 “Quantitative methods”. Since 2021 she serves at the Reviewer College of the Journal of Social Research Methodology. Her publications and research interests focus on issues of methodology and techniques in social quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research, social surveys’ cross-national and overtime comparability, background variables and classifications.