Dr Venetia Evergeti

My principal research interests are in Interactionist Sociology, Qualitative and Ethnographic Research Methods. 

In particular, using this paradigm I have studied: International Students’ Experiences of EDI; Affordances of Hybrid Learning and Captured Content in HE; The Role of Discipline-Specific Training for GTAs; Transnational Family Networks of Care; Transnational Grandparenting; Race, Ethnicity and Migration; Muslim Minorities in Greece and Europe.

I am an expert in the study of indigenous and migrant Muslim communities in Greece and I have published extensively on this. Between 2010 and 2012 I led the AHRC-funded Islam in Greece project, one of the first projects specifically exploring the role of religion in the experiences of belonging and the interactions between indigenous Muslim communities and newly arriving migrants from predominantly Muslim countries. 

I have also carried out extensive research on the interplay between ethnicity and transnational family networks as part of the Families and Social Capital Research Group at London South Bank University http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/families/index.shtml. This work resulted in a co-edited Special Issue in the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies on 'Social Capital, Migration and Transnational Family Networks'.   

I have also developed pedagogical research on students' experiences of hybrid HE education during and after the pandemic and the role of discipline-specific training for Graduate Teaching Assistance. Following my preliminary research on this, in 2022 I established the ground-breaking Sociology GTA Academy providing extensive subject-specific training and professional development to PhD students who teach. I am currently involved developing this innovative scheme further and after securing FASS funds for a student-staff partnership project, I am working on developing a blueprint for such GTA Academies in other Schools across all Faculties in Surrey.