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University Of Crete

School of Social Sciences

Department of Political Science

 

Nikolaos Papadakis

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Εmail: papadakn@uoc.gr

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Nikos E. Papadakis (ΒΑ, ΜΑ, ΜΑ, PhD) is Professor and former Head of the Department of Political Science, at the University of Crete (UoC). He is a Member of the Scientific- Educational Council (EES) of the National Centre of Public Administration and Local Government (EKDDA) of Greece, a Member of the Scientific Committee of the “Euro-Mediterranean Observatory of Democracy and Public Space” of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) in Spain and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the AGEP of the Zhengzhou University (ZZU), in China. Additionally, he is a Member of the Scientific Board of the Centre for European Constitutional Law (CECL), the ECPR “Political Culture” Standing Group, the Editorial Board of the “Frontiers in Political Science” and the UN/ SDSN Global. He is the Director of the Centre for Political Research and Documentation (KEPET) of the Department of Political Science, UoC and the Director of the Centre for Training and LLL (KEDIVIM) of the UoC. He participates External Evaluation Committees (EECs) of the Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education (DI.PA.E) of the Republic of Cyprus, while he is an Affiliated Researcher- Expert at the Institute (“Social Multicentre”) of the Hellenic Federation of Civil Servants, as well as at the Research Centre of the University of Piraeus.

He has studied at the University of Crete and at the IoE (Institute of Education & Society) of the University of London (currently UCL- IoE). He has been Special Adviser to the European Commission (2011 -2013), International Expert at the European Training Foundation/ ETF (2015-2017), International Expert & Visiting Lecturer at the Academy of Public Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2011-2012) and a Member of the Advisory Board of the UNDP/ RCPAR (Regional Centre for Public Administration Reform/ 2008- 2010). Further, he has been a Visiting Professor at the UCL- IoE, in UK (March- August 2012) and at the Zhengzhou University, in China (October- November 2019), and he has served, as an Assistant Professor, at the Department of Social & Educational Policy of the University of the Peloponnese (2004-2006).   

He has 237 publications, in total. More specifically: He has 211 publications, in Greek, English, French and Chinese (95 out of them, international) including journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters (including papers published in Q1, & Q2 Journals and chapters in Springer and Elsevier Books), Additionally, he is the author/ co-author of 15 books- monographs, in Greek and English, while he has edited 11 books in Greek and English. He has (on May 30, 2025) 805 citations (h-index: 13) in Google Scholar (as well as 148 in Scopus and 110 in the Web-of-Science). 311 Presentations & Keynote Speeches in Conferences and Workshops, as well as Invited Lectures in Universities, in Greece and abroad (140 out of them, in International Conferences and Workshops, as well as in European, Asian and US Universities). He has participated (or currently participating) in 59 (mainly research) Projects in Greece and abroad, either as Team Leader or as researcher/ expert.

  • Public policies in Education and Training
  • Employment policies
  • Social Policy
  • European public policy
  • Multiculturalism and migration policy
  • Research Methodology
  • ΔΕΚΠ402 Public Policies in Education & Training
  • ΕΝΣΠ398 Special Issues of Social Policy
  • ΕΠΠΠ585 Educational Policy and Employment Policies
  • ΠΜΚΠ137 Qualitative Methods in Social & Political Research
  • ΕΜΕΠ138 Political Science Methodology
  • A2 -Y: Labour Market and Employment Policies. 

10 (recent) indicatives:

Books

  1. Papadakis N., Drakaki M., Saridaki S. (2021), “The degree of despair”. Labour Market, Precarious Work and Social Vulnerability in Youth, in Greece: The state of Play (in the EU and Greece), parameters, trends, transformations, impact and challenges for the employment policies. («Ο βαθμός Απελπισίας». Αγορά Εργασίας, Επισφαλής Εργασία και Κοινωνική Ευπάθεια στη Νέα Γενιά στην Ελλάδα: Η κατάσταση των πραγμάτων (σε Ευρώπη και Ελλάδα), παράμετροι, τάσεις, μετασχηματισμοί, επιπτώσεις και προκλήσεις για τις πολιτικές απασχόλησης»). Athens: I. Sideris publ. (in Greek).
  2. Galvin Arribas, M., Papadakis, N. & ETF (2019), Governance Arrangements for Vocational Education and Training in ETF Partner Countries: An Analytical Overview 2012-2017. Turin: European Training Foundation (ETF) & Publications Office of the European Union. DOI: 10.2816/187797 Available at: https://www.etf.europa.eu/en/publications-and-resources/publications/governance-arrangements-vocational-education-and-training

 Journal Articles & Book Chapters

 

  1. Dimari G. Tzagkarakis St, Papadakis N., Citkowska-Kimla A. (2025), “Desecuritization of Migration in Greece: Re-Visiting “Flexicuritization”, in Frontiers in Political Science (Section “Peace and Democracy”), Volume 7- 2025, pp. 01-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2025.1462902 Available at: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2025.1462902/full
  2. Papadakis N. & Tzagkarakis St. (2025), “Welfare State, Social Policy and Social Sustainability, within the context of the PermaCrisis, in Frontiers in Political Science- Special Issue “Public Policies in the Era of Permacrisis”, Volume 6- 2025, pp. 01-09. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2024.1451406. Available at: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2024.1451406/full
  3. Papadakis N. & Drakaki M. (2023), “The development of the European Education Policy, its reform agenda and the impact of neoliberalism and economic rationale: The case of the “Work Programme Education & Training 2010”, within the framework of the EU Lisbon Strategy (2000-2010)”, in International Journal of Educational Research, Special Issue: “ Human capital and education practice”, no 173, pp. 1- 9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102130. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883035522002038?dgcid=author
  4. Chiang, T-H., Papadakis, N., Drakaki, M. (2023), “The Changes in Human Capital Discourse from Expansion to Employability in the Case of Higher Education Institutes in China, within the international context”, in On Lee W.O., Brown P., Lin Goodwin, A., Green A. (eds), International Handbook on Education Development in Asia- Pacific (IHEDAP). Singapore: Springer, pp. 2233–2250. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6887-7_97 Available online (abstract & references) at: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-19-6887-7_97
  5. Papadakis N. (2022), “The changing Labour Market and the role of the micro-credentials in LLL and VET (Vocational Education &Training)”, in G. Ubachs, S. Meuleman, & A. Antonaci (eds). Digital Reset: European Universities Transforming for a Changing World. Proceedings of the EADTU Innovating Higher Education Conference 2022 (I-HE2022). Zenodo. pp. 418-431. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7330857 . Available at: https://zenodo.org/records/7330857
  6. Dimari G. & Papadakis N. (2022), “The Securitization of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Greece: A Just or Unjust Securitization?”, in Springer Quality & Quantity, vol. 57 (Suppl 1), pp. 77–97. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01341-9 Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11135-022-01341-9 & https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35194254/
  7. Papadakis N. (2022), “EU policy on education and training in the EU2020 Framework. Its main components and the Europe state of play: Social indicators, Employment, Education, Training and Lifelong Learning”, in D. Anagnostopoulou & D. Skiadas (eds), Higher Education and Research in the European Union. Mobility Schemes, Social Rights and Youth Policies. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 213-230. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85690-8_12 Available (Abstract & References) at: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-85690-8_12
  8. Papadakis N., Amanaki E., Drakaki M., Saridaki S. (2020), “Employment/ Unemployment, Education and Poverty in the Greek Youth, within the EU context”, in International Journal of Educational Research, VSI: Poverty and education, no 99, 2020, 101503, pp. 1- 15. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2019.101503 Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883035518316422

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