Gialis Stelios

Dr Stelios Gialis is the Director and Academic Supervisor of the Labour Geography Research Lab. As an Academic Supervisor, he is responsible for the quality of the research conducted, both in terms of outputs and in terms of methodology. As a Director, he is responsible for the organisation, staffing and operation of the lab and the strategic decision making involved.

Dr. Stelios Gialis is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean. He has studied Rural and Surveying Engineering and received his Ph.D. in Economic Geography and Regional Development in 2004. Between 2012 and 2015 he was jointly affiliated with the University of Georgia (UGA), US and the Hellenic Open University, Greece, doing post-doctoral research. He has published in many academic journals including Geoforum, European Urban and Regional Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Economic and Industrial Democracy etc. His research interests include Labour and Geography, the spatial divisions of flexible/ atypical/ informal employment, Urban restructuring and labor markets.

Major Publications

1. Tsapala, F., Chorianopoulos, I., Gaki, E., & Gialis, S. (2023). The mediterranean city and EU integration: Divergent resurgence paths and new forms of north-south urban divide. Cities, 138
2. Emmanouil, E., Chatzichristos, G., Herod, A., & Gialis, S. (2023). In what way a ‘Guarantee for youth’? NEETs entrapped by labour market policies in the european union. Journal of Youth Studies
3. Avagianou, A., Kapitsinis, N., Papageorgiou, I., Strand, A. H., & Gialis, S. (2022). Being NEET in youthspaces of the EU south: A post-recession regional perspective. Young, 30(5), 425-454.
4. Gourzis, K., Herod, A., Chorianopoulos, I., & Gialis, S. (2022). On the recursive relationship between gentrification and labour market precarisation: Evidence from two neighbourhoods in athens, greece. Urban Studies, 59(12), 2545-2564.
5. Avagianou, A., Gourzis, K., Pissourios, I., Iosifides, T., & Gialis, S. (2022). Quite promising yet marginal? A comparative study of social economy in the EU south. Comparative European Politics, 20(4), 484-509.
6. Kapitsinis, N., Poulimas, M., Emmanouil, E., & Gialis, S. (2022). Spatialities of being a young NEET in an era of turbulence: A critical account of regional resilience across the mediterranean EU south. Journal of Youth Studies
7. Avagianou, A., Kizos, T., & Gialis, S. (2022). Young NEETs in the EU south: Socio-spatial and gender divisions in between the great recession and the covid-19 pandemic. Geografisk Tidsskrift – Danish Journal of Geography, 122(1), 32-45.
8. Herod, A., Gialis, S., Psifis, S., Gourzis, K., & Mavroudeas, S. (2022). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon employment and inequality in the mediterranean EU: An early look from a labour geography perspective. European Urban and Regional Studies, 29(1), 3-20.
9. Herod, A., Gourzis, K., & Gialis, S. (2021). Inter-regional underemployment and the industrial reserve army: Precarity as a contemporary greek drama. European Urban and Regional Studies, 28(4), 413-430.
10. Gialis, S., Paitaridis, D., Seretis, S., Ioannides, A., & Underthun, A. (2020). In what terms and at what cost resilient? ‘Unregulated flexibilization’ in regional ‘troubled waters’. European Planning Studies, 28(1), 166-191.
11. Gourzis, K., Herod, A., & Gialis, S. (2019). Linking gentrification and labour market precarity in the contemporary city: A critical framework for analysis. Antipode.
12. Gourzis K., and Gialis, S. (2019) Dismantled spatial fixes in the aftermath of recession: Capital switching and labor underutilization in the Greek capital metropolitan region. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
13. Grekousis G, and S. Gialis (2018) More Flexible Yet Less Developed? Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Labor Flexibilization and Gross Domestic Product in Crisis-Hit European Union Regions. Social Indicators Research. 2018:1-20.
14. Gialis, S., Gourzis, K. & Underthun A. (2017) ‘Going under-employed’: Industrial and regional effects, specialization and part-time work across recession-hit Southern European Union regions, European Urban and Regional Studies.
15. Gialis, S., & Taylor, M. (2016) A Regional Account of Flexibilization Across the EU: The ‘Flexible Contractual Arrangements’ Composite Index and the Impact of Recession. Social Indicators Research, 128:3,1121–1146.

Books

1. Γκιάλης, Σ. και Herod, A., (2015). Γεωγραφία της εργασίας: Εργατική δράση, ευέλικτη απασχόληση και χωρικές ανισότητες. [ηλεκτρ. βιβλ.] Αθήνα: Σύνδεσμος Ελληνικών Ακαδημαϊκών Βιβλιοθηκών. Διαθέσιμο στο: https://hdl.handle.net/11419/4073
2. Γκιάλης Σ. (2004) «Χωρικά και κλαδικά χαρακτηριστικά της άτυπης εργασίας: εργασιακή και παραγωγική ευελιξία στη βιομηχανία της Θεσσαλονίκης» (σελίδες 377, χρηματοδότηση: Ίδρυμα Κρατικών Υποτροφιών. Διαθέσιμο στο: https://thesis.ekt.gr/thesisBookReader/id/14754#page/1/mode/2up).