Swansea University - panayiotopoulos_p

Dr Prodromos Ioannou Panayiotopoulos (aka Mike Pany)

Specialist Subjects: Teaching and research on world development, immigrant and ethnic minority enterprise, small enterprise promotion, youth, labour and globalisation, the garment industry, gender and employment policy. Current research interests include immigrant enterprise in Tottenham North London, foreign domestic workers in Cyprus and the role of microfinance in development.

PUBLICATIONS AND WORK IN PROGRESS

In joint publications, percentage contribution is indicated (in brackets).

  • Turkish Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the European Union, 2007, in K. Hafeez, D. McEvoy and A. Keoy (eds) Changing Faces of Ethnic Entrepreneurship, pp. 214-225 (The University of Bradford School of Management: Centre for Ethnic Entrepreneurship) (ISBN 9780955542503).
  • Immigrant enterprise in Europe and the United States, 2006, (London: Routledge) (269 pp. +i-xii) (ISBN 0415353718).
  • ‘The globalisation of care: Filipina domestic workers and care for the elderly in Cyprus’, 2005, Capital and Class, No. 88, pp. 1-36 (ISSN 03098168).
  • ‘Anthropology consultancy in the UK and community development in the Third World: a difficult dialogue’, 2002, Development in Practice, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 45-59 (ISSN 13649213).
  • ‘Economic differentiation and policy-making in the London garment industry’, 2002, co-authored with Marja Dreef, in Jan Rath (ed) Unravelling the Rag Trade: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Seven World Cities, pp. 49-72 (Oxford: Berg Publishers) (ISBN 1859734235) (60%).
  • World Development: An Introduction, 2001, co edited with Gavin Capps (London: Pluto Press) (289 pp. + i-xxiv) (ISBN 074531402) (50%).
  • ‘Globalisation and Immigrant Enterprise’, 2001, in World Development, P. Panayiotopoulos and G. Capps, G. (eds) pp. 98-113 (London: Pluto Press) (ISBN 074531402).
  • The Emergent Post-Colonial State in Cyprus, 2001, from Praktika tou Tritou Diethnous Kyprologikou Synenthriou [Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Cypriot Studies, held in Nicosia 16-20 April 1996, Volume Three] pp. 583-608 (Nicosia: Imprinta) (ISBN 996355718X). 
  • ‘Globalisation: Industrialisation and Trade’, 2001, in P. Panayiotopoulos and G. Capps (eds) World Development, pp. 63-112 (London: Pluto Press) (ISBN 074531402).
  • ‘The Global Textile Industry: An Engendered Protectionism’, 2001, in P. Panayiotopoulos and G. Capps (eds) World Development, pp. 192-207 (London: Pluto Press) (ISBN 074531402).
  • ‘China: Breaking the Iron Rice Bowl’, 2001, in P. Panayiotopoulos and G. Capps (eds) World Development, pp. 192-207 (London: Pluto Press) (ISBN 074531402).
  • ‘South Korea: Free Market Miracle or Mirage?’, 2001, co-authored with Gavin Capps, in P. Panayiotopoulos and G. Capps (eds) World Development, pp. 133-148 (London: Pluto Press) (ISBN 074531402) (50%).
  • ‘The Labour Regime Under Conditions of Globalisation in the Cypriot Garment Industry’, 2000, Journal of Southern Europe and Balkan Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 75-88 (ISSN 01007513).
  •  ‘The Emergent Post-Colonial State in Cyprus’, 1999, The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 31-55. (ISSN 03063631)  
  • ‘Small enterprise Development: 'making it work' and 'making sense', 1997, Brainstorm Magazine, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), January No. 1, pp. 4 10.
  • ‘Learning from State sponsored Youth Enterprise Promotion in the Commonwealth Developing Countries’, 1997, co authored with Chris Gerry, Third World Planning Review Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 209 227 (ISSN 01427849) (70%).
  • Small Enterprise Promotion Targeting Youth: Experience from State sponsored Programmes, 1997, co authored with Chris Gerry. Papers in International Development No. 22, Centre for Development Studies, Swansea (29 pages) (ISBN 0906250552) (60%).
  • Winners and Losers: African Society and Development South of the Sahara, 1996, co authored with Chris Gerry, Helen Hintjens, Gavin Capps and Alison Doogan (ed.) A Development Education Publication, Oxfam South Wales/Centre for Development Studies, Swansea, (104 pages) (ISBN 1870727223) (20%).
  • ‘The State and Enterprise in the Cypriot Clothing Industry Under Conditions of Globalisation’, 1996a, Ekonomia, Journal of The Cyprus Association of Economists, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 5 28 (ISSN 10133224).
  • ‘Ethnic Minority Enterprise: Challenging the Orthodoxy’, 1996b, Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 437 460 (ISSN 00479586).
  • ‘Small Enterprises in the Gaza Strip: the Plastic and Rubber Industry’, 1996, co authored with Yusef Abu ElJedian, Third World Planning Review, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 455 475 (ISSN 01427849) (50%).                               
  • ‘Flexible Specialisation. New Paradigm for Industrialisation for Developing Countries?’, 1996, co authored with Subesh K. Das, Economic and Political Weekly Dec. 28, pp. 57 61 (ISSN 00129976) (50%).
  • ‘Cyprus: The Developmental State in Crisis’, 1995, Capital and Class, No. 57, pp. 13 53 (ISSN 03098168).
  • Promoting Urban Informal Enterprises: a Case Study of the ActionAid Kenya Kariobangi Savings and Credit Programme, 1995, co authored with James Atema. Papers in International Development No. 15, Centre for Development Studies, Swansea (30 pages) (ISBN 0906250548) (50%).
  • Local Government Economic Initiatives. Planning, Choice and Politics: The London  Experience, 1992, Papers in International Development No. 7, Centre for Development Studies, Swansea (112 pp. + i-v) (ISBN 0906250226).       
  • ‘The Cypriot Clothing Industry’, 1992, The Cyprus Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 77 123 (ISSN 10152281).
  • 'Cypriot Entrepreneurs in the North London Clothing Industry: A Colonial Legacy’, 1990, from the Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Cypriot Migration: A Historical and Sociological Perspective, pp. 285 331 (Nicosia: Social Science Research Centre) (ISBN 9963080170).
  • Youth Enterprise Initiatives in the Developing Countries of the Commonwealth: A Critical Review, 1990, co authored with Dr. Chris Gerry (London: The Commonwealth Youth Programme of the Commonwealth Secretariat) (171 pages) (50%).

Work in progress

  • (forthcoming) ‘Turkish immigrant entrepreneurs in the European Union: a political-institutional approach’ International Journal of Entrepreneurial Research. 
  • Small Enterprises and the Developing Economies: Unfinished Business, a co edited book with Chris Gerry, (forthcoming, Ashgate) (ISBN 1859725538) (50%).
  •  ‘Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in Europe: between informality and integration’ (article) submitted to Social and Cultural Geography
  • Studies in Hispanic Adaptation: Los Angeles and Miami (article) submitted to Immigration Review
  • Turkish entrepreneurs in Tottenham, North London (research focus)
  • Filipina housemaids in Cyprus (research focus)
  • The microfinance counter-revolution in development (research focus)

EXPERIENCE OF APPLIED RESEARCH AND CONTRIBUTION TO THE COMMUNITY

  • SWANSEA, The provision of technical support to Defend Council Housing, Swansea (2005-2007)
  • CYPRUS, The provision of technical support to the Immigrant Workers Support Group (2001-2005).
  • WALES, UNITED KINGDOM, intermittently with the Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group (2002-2006).
  • HOLLAND, Adviser and participant at the Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES), Amsterdam, (series of workshops on the role of subcontracting relationships amongst ethnic minority owned enterprises in the garment sector) (2002-2004).
  • WALES, UNITED KINGDOM, Trainer on ODA/DfID-funded short-course  programmes aimed at senior government & NGO officials involved in small enterprise promotion (1995-2001).
  • WALES, UNITED KINGDOM, The preparation of teaching material for the 'AS' Level in World Development, funded by Oxfam South Wales (1995 1997).
  • WALES, UNITED KINGDOM, Trainer on ODA funded short-course programme aimed at Indian urban development planners (1994-1996).
  • WALES, UNITED KINGDOM, Curriculum Development work for the Welsh Joint Examining Board and the National Examining Board. Main consultant and writer in the AS Level on World Development  (1995-1995).
  • PHILIPPINES, Adviser to the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) on the organisation of a workshop on the role of indigenous knowledge and its application in the manage¬ment of income generation programmes (1994-1995).
  • DENMARK & TANZANIA, Analysis of the training needs of youth manag¬ers in Tanzanian programmes funded by the Danish Association for International Cooperation (1993 1994).

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS

  • Institute of Commonwealth Studies
  • Development Studies Association
  • Association of University Teachers/UCU

General Information

Ph.D., Cypriot Entrepreneurs in the clothing industry; North London and Cyprus: a comparative analysis (Wales) 1994 B.Sc. Econ in Development Studies (First Class Honours),(Wales) 1984

Lecturer
Swansea
TEL: +44 (0) 1792 205678 x4361
FAX: +44 (0)
E-MAIL: m.pany@swansea.ac.uk

Courses Taught

  • Cultural Difference and Change in British Society (SSGM02) module for the MSc in Cultural Awareness (2006-2008)
  • Studying Society Today (SSS150) first year module (2006-2008)
  • Immigrant Enterprise in Europe & North America (SSG250/SSG350) second and third year module (2002 2008)
  • The Distinctiveness of the Sociological Research (SSRM07) module for the MSc in Social Research (2006-2007)
  • Labour, Employment and the Urban Economy in the Third World (SSG293/SSG393) second and third year course (1998 2006)
  • International Development (Open University, U204, U208, U213) Course Tutor/Associate Lecturer/E-tutor (1997 2007)
  • Introduction to Sociology first year course (2001 2005)    
  • Poverty and Development in the Third World: an Introduction first year course (1987 2000)
  • Globalisation and Development first year course (1987 2000)
  • Small Enterprises: Issues in Development & Appraisal for the MSc in Development Policy and Planning (DPP) and Social Development Policy (SDP) (1989 2001)                
  • The City in Developing Economies second and third year course (1995 1998)  
  • International Development foundation year course for overseas students (1990 1994)