Giorgos Tsiolis

Dr. Giorgos Tsiolis is an Associate Professor on “Qualitative Methods in Sociological Research” at the Department of Sociology (University Crete). He studied Philosophy and Social Sciences at the University of Crete and continued his doctoral studies in Germany and Denmark. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on “Deindustrialisation and biographical transformations. Life stories of industrial workers of Lavrion” (2002, Department of Sociology, University of Crete). He has taught Micro-sociology and Qualitative Research Methods at the Department of Sociology of the University of the Aegean (2002-2007). Since 2007 he is teaching qualitative research and biographical narrative methods at the Department of Sociology of the University of Crete; and since 2014, methodology of educational research at the Hellenic Open University.  In 2011 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at University of Frankfurt and in spring of 2018 at the University of Vienna. Since May of 2018 he is the Vice-President of the Greek Association of Oral History and elected member of the scientific board of the Research-Committee 38: Biography and Society in International Sociological Association (ISA). He is also member of the Steering Committee of the Greek research infrastructure for the social sciences (SoDaNet). His academic interests include issues on social research methodology, qualitative methods, qualitative data analysis, biographical narrative approach and secondary analysis of qualitative data. He has published in international journals as well as in collective scientific volumes. G. Tsiolis has also written two books on biographical narrative approach and on qualitative analysis methods.