Professor Ourania Filippakou
Professor - Education

Summary

Ourania Filippakou Giroux is Professor of Education. She did her first degree in Education at University of the Aegean and, then, obtained a scholarship from the Academy of Athens to do her postgraduate studies at the UCL Institute of Education. Her main interest is in the politics of higher education with particular reference to comparative historical analysis, a perspective that seeks to combine the methods of history with social sciences theories and concepts. Books include Rethinking Higher Education and the Crisis of Legitimation in Europe (Routledge, 2022); Creating the the Future? The 1960s New English Universities, co-authored with Ted Tapper (Springer, 2019); and Higher Education as a Public Good, co-edited with Gareth Williams (Peter Lang, 2014). She was a council member of the Society for Research into Higher Education and co-editor of the British Educational Research Journal. She co-edits book series International Studies in Higher Education (Routledge) and Critical Interventions (Routledge).

Qualifications

• PhD Higher Education, UCL Institute of Education
• MA Higher and Professional Education, UCL Institute of Education
• BA (Hons) Education with QTS, University of the Aegean

Responsibility

Director of Teaching & Learning (2018-2023)