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BA (Nottingham), MA (Nottingham), MSc (Nottingham), PhD (Sheffield)

Maria Xenitidou has undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications focusing on International Relations, Politics, Identity, Migration and Research Methodology. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Sheffield. Her doctoral thesis was titled "National Identity and Otherness in Greek Speakers' Talk about Immigration" and focused on Greek national identity and immigration from the Balkans. During her doctoral research she resided at the South-East European Research Centre, where she was a research assistant. Her main interests are in Research Methods (Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods, Methodological Innovations and Developments), Identity Issues (Cultural, Ethnic and National Identities), Migration and Minorities (Social Impact, National and EU Policy Framework) and in Social Norms (as dynamic, shifting, situated and situational understandings of conduct). Maria joined CRESS in October 2008 as a research fellow working on an ESRC-funded project, "Innovations in social research methods: an international perspective", which aimed at constructing a map of the 'hot spots' of research methods around the world. In April 2009 she joined the EU FP6 funded research project "EMIL" (Emergence in the Loop), working on the emergence of social norms. In October 2009 Maria joined the ESRC-funded project "SIMIAN" (Simulation: A Node)working on social psychological and dynamic approaches to social norms and normative behaviour. In April 2010 Maria was appointed as the project manager of the EU FP7 project  "QLectives (Quality Collectives). Maria's research in QLectives involves tracing the discursive production and reproduction of understandings of quality in science.

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