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Dr Nelli Stavropoulou

Profile summary

  • Research Staff
  • Post Doctoral Research Associate
  • Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
  • School of Psychology & Counselling
  • Psychology
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Professional biography

Nelli Stavropoulou is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate for the Centre for Protecting Women Online. She is a participatory arts-based researcher and a creative facilitator, whose work explores and re-visits the intersections between storytelling, self-representation, and creative expression across social, biographical and creative spaces. Previous work includes participatory arts-based research with children and young people from a migrant and refugee background in education  (New ABC - Networking the educational world: Across boundaries for community-building), as well as biographical creative research with individuals seeking asylum in the UK. 

Research interests

Nelli's research interests focus on processes of storytelling, self-representation, lived experiences of forced displacement and marginalisation, and arts-based methodological approaches. Her creative work and research practice are underpinned by participatory action research principles with a focus on co-creation and visual methods.

External collaborations

Nelli is a proud Trustee of Durham City of Sanctuary. 

Publications

Sharing ‘hostile’ stories: Exploring the UK's ‘hostile environment’ through participatory arts-based methods (2024-05)
Stavropoulou, Nelli
Critical Social Policy, 44(2) (pp. 178-200)

Brushed under the carpet: Examining the complexities of participatory research (2019)
Lenette, Caroline; Stavropoulou, Nelli; Nunn, Caitlin; Kong, Sui Ting; Cook, Tina; Coddington, Kate and Banks, Sarah
Research for All, 3(2) (pp. 161-179)

The Adventures of the Little Prince in the World: Repilot Action Activity Handbook (2024-01-31)
de Abreu, Guida; Stavropoulou, Nelli; Crafter, Sarah and Stamou, Eleni
EU Commission

Empowering Young Translators: Pilot Action Activity Handbook (2023-09)
Crafter, Sarah; de Abreu, Guida; Stamou, Eleni and Stavropoulou, Nelli
NEW ABC