Swansea University - panayiotopoulos_p

Dr Prodromos Ioannou Panayiotopoulos (aka Mike Pany)

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

Work in progress

 

 

‘Between informality & integration: Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in the EU’ (forthcoming). Paper presented to the International Conference on "Towards new geographies of migration? Transnational Spaces, Immigrant entrepreneurship and development as builders of changed social and spatial organisation in Europe’, University of Bremen, 26-27 September 2008.

‘Cyprus, immigrant workers & the world economy: a case study of Filipina domestic workers’ (forthcoming). Paper presented to the IV International Congress of Cypriot Studies, Nicosia, 29 April - 3 May 2008.

Ethnicity, Migration & Enterprise (Book, forthcoming). London: Palgrave.

Turkish entrepreneurs in Tottenham, North London (research focus)Filipina housemaids in Cyprus

 

Experience of applied research and contribution to the community

SWANSEA, The provision of technical support for Defend Council Housing, Swansea (2005-2007)

 

 

CYPRUS, The provision of technical support for 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 manage­ment of income-generation programmes (1994-1995).

 

DENMARK & TANZANIA, Analysis of the training needs of youth manag­ers 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.Swansea University, September 1994. B.Sc. Econ in Development Studies (First Class Honours), Swansea University, September 1984.

Centre for Development Studies , Centre for Migration Policy Research
Swansea
TEL: +44 (0) 01792 295682 x4361
FAX: +44 (0)
E-MAIL: m.pany@swansea.ac.uk

Courses Taught

  • Studying Society Today (GEG120) first year Sociology module (2008-2009) (GEG105) first year Geography module (2008-2009)
  • Global Shifts (SSDM20) for the MSc in Development and Human Rights (2008-2009)
  • Governance and Development Policy (SSRM07) module for the MSc in Social Research (2006-2009)
  • The Distinctiveness of the Sociological Research (SSGM02) module for the MSc in Cultural Awareness (2006-2008)
  • Cultural Difference and Change in British Society (SSS150) first year Sociology module (2006-2008)
  • Studying Society Today (SSG250/SSG350) second and third year Sociology module (2002-2008)
  • Immigrant Enterprise in Europe & North America (SSG293/SSG393) second and third year Development Studies module (1998-2006)
  • Labour, Employment and the Urban Economy in the Third World (Open University, U204, U208, U213) Welsh Course Tutor/Associate Lecturer/E-tutor (1997-2008)
  • International Development first year Development Studies module (1987-2005)
  • Poverty and Development in the Third World: an Introduction first year Development Studies module (1987-2005)
  • Globalisation and Development for the MSc in Development Policy and Planning (DPP) and Social Development Policy (SDP) (1989-2005)
  • Small Enterprises: Issues in Development & Appraisal second and third year Development Studies module (1995-1995)
  • The City in Developing Economies foundation year course for overseas students (1990-1994)
  • International Development Workers Education Association (Swansea) (1987-1990)
  • Local Labour History