Office Address
Campus 2, building Δ΄
Teaching modules
Short Bio
Vasilios Ioakimidis is a Professor of Historical and Comparative Social Work. He is affiliated with international Universities (University of Essex and University of Johannesburg) and until 2020 was the Founding Chair of the Centre for Social Work and Social Justice at the university of Essex. Prior to this Vasilios Ioakimidis was an Associate Professor at the University of Durham.
He is currently the Global Education Commissioner at the International Federation of Social Workers and the Co-Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Social Work.
Vasilios Ioakimidis has also been a founder member and member the Steering Committee of the Social Work Action Network (SWAN) a radical social work organization which brings together social work practitioners, service users, academics and students united in their commitment to promote social justice and defend welfare rights.
Much of his research revolves around the broad theme of Social Work in Extremis, an exploration of social work practice in the context of unpredictable and extraordinary political, social, economic and environmental change.
Vasilios Ioakimidis has been invited to deliver key-note presentation in several countries including Puerto Rico, the US, Colombia, Australia, Turkey, Cyprus, the UK, Kenya, Canada, Spain, Croatia, Germany, Finland, Norway, Vietnam and Brazil.
2009, PhD in Social Work, University of Liverpool,
2004 MPhil, University of Liverpool (by progression to PhD)
2003, BA (4-years) in Social Work, ATEI of Patras, Greece.
Books
Lavalette, M. and Ioakimidis, V., (2020). Social Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic International Insights. Policy Press. 1447360362. 9781447360360
Ferguson, I., Ioakimidis, V. and Lavalette, M., (2018). Global Social Work in a Political Context Radical Perspectives. Policy Press.
Ιωακειμίδης, Β. (2012) Κοινωνική Εργασία για την Κοινωνική Δικαιοσύνη. Ριζοσπαστική και Κριτική Κοινωνική Εργασία. Πρακτική, Παραδείγματα. Αθήνα: Ίων. (επιμέλεια)
Lavalette M and Ioakimidis V (2011), Social Work in Extremis, Lessons for Social Work Internationally, Policy Press, Bristol. (edited)
Articles in peer reviewed journals and book chapters (last 5 years)
Vasilios Ioakimidis, Gregory Neocleous, Agamemnonas Zachariades, Ayşe Ozada & Buse Erzeybek (2021) ‘Educating for peace’: conflict, division and social work education in Cyprus, European Journal of Social Work, DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2021.1896993
Ioakimidis V, Sookraj D. Global standards for social work education and training. International Social Work. 2021;64(2):161-174. doi:10.1177/0020872821989799
Ioakimidis, V. (2021). Trabajo social en el contexto neoliberal global: solidaridad y resistencia desde una perspectiva radical. Propuestas Críticas en Trabajo Social – Critical Proposals in Social Work, 1(1), 28-42. doi:10.5354/2735-6620.2021.61229
Lavalette, Michael; Ioakimidis, Vasilios (2021) The fire last time: the ‘reconceptualisation’ radical social work movement in Latin America (1965‐75), Critical and Radical Social Work, Volume 9, Number 1, March 2021, pp. 3-4(2)
Ioakimidis, V., & Trimikliniotis, N. (2020). Making sense of social work’s troubled past: Professional identity, collective memory and the quest for historical justice. British Journal of Social Work, 1–19.
Ioakimidis, V., (2020) Reflexões sobre a história. Libertas. 19 (02), 270-285