Dr. Marios Vryonides

Marios Vryonides is assistant professor of Sociology at the European University Cyprus. He got his BA in Sociology from Panteion University Athens, his MA in Sociology from the University of Essex and his PhD from Institute of Education – University of London. From 2004 until 2009 he was visiting lecturer at the Institute of Education - University of London. He has taught at Anglia Polytechnic University (2001-2003) and the University of the Aegean (2004-2007). From 2008 he is Cyprus’ national coordinator of the European Social Survey. He is running two European Commission funded research projects (2011-2012) titled “Children’s voices: Exploring interethnic violence in schools” and “Fundamental Rights Education in Europe – FREE”. Together with Christos Kassimeris he has co-edited a book published by Routledge titled “The Politics of Education: Challenging Multiculturalism” (2011). He is currently the Secretary of the Research Committee on Sociology of Education (RC04) of the International Sociological Association. He has published widely on sociological and educational issues in international peer reviewed journals. His research interests focus on contemporary sociological theory, sociology of education, in the theories of cultural and social capital and in the processes of educational choice-making.

PhD from Institute of Education – University of London
MA in Sociology from the University of Essex
BA in Sociology from Panteion University Athens

• January 2011- December 2012, Research partner in the European Commission funded program Children’s voices: exploring interethnic violence in the school environment
• January 2011- December 2012, Research partner in the European Commission funded program program “Fundamental rights education in Europe – FREE”
• October 2007 – Running, National Coordinator of Cyprus in the European Social Survey, Funded by the European Science Foundation and the European University Cyprus
• July 2008 – July 2009, In-change of research, European University Cyprus, A sociological investigation of factors that affect pre-adolescences’ school engagement: Implications for learning and pedagogy
• October 2004 – December 2005, In-change of the Dodecanese regional research team, Aristotle University of Thessalonica - Department of Psychology, Promoting gender equality in the transition from school to the workplace
• January 2005– December  2007, Researcher, University of the Aegean PYTHAGORAS II – An investigation into the attitudes, beliefs and practices of primary and secondary school teachers on gender issues

• Vryonides, M. and Gouvias, D. (2012) Parents’ aspirations for their children’s educational and occupational prospects in Greece: the role of social class, International Journal of Educational Research
• Vryonides, M. and Lambrianou, I. (2012) Education and social stratification across Europe, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
• Kassimeris C. and Vryonides M. (2012) (eds.), The Politics of Education: Challenging Multiculturalism, London and New York: Routledge
• Vryonides, M. (2011) Weberian Influences in the work of Pierre Bourdieu, In Antonopoulou, M. and S. Chiotakis, Max Weber, Athens: Nisos
• Vryonides, M. (2011) The sampling strategy of Cyprus in the ESS, Invited chapter in a collective volume edited by Serdedakis, Kallas and Tsiolis “Empirical Research and Research Infrastructure in the Social Sciences”, Athens: Nisos.
• Vryonides, M. (2010) Gender and reconciliation of private and public social sphere: theoretical underpinnings and empirical examples, in Y. Papageorgiou, Gender Research in Greece, Athens: Gutenberg, pp. 247-265
• Vryonides, M. (2010) Religiosity in Cyprus: A critical examination of ESS findings for Cyprus, in ?. Gouliamos and ?. Vryonides (eds.) Perspectives of the Cypriot Society through the ESS findings, Nicosia: En Toipis (In Greek)
• Ball, S., Dworkin, G. & Vryonides, M. (eds) (2010) Globalization and education, Current Sociology, 58 (4)
• Gouliamos, K. and Vryonides, M. (eds.) (2010) Perspectives of the Cypriot Society through the ESS findings, Nicosia: En Toipis (In Greek)
• Vryonides, M. (2009) Applying Bourdieu’s concepts of social and cultural capital in educational research in Greece and Cyprus, in Karen Robson and Chris Sanders (eds) Quantifying Theory: Pierre Bourdieu, Springer Science & Business Media B.V., pp. 129-141
• Pavlou, V. & Vryonides, M. (2009) Understanding factors that influence teachers’ technology acceptance and actual computer use for teaching; the case of Greece, Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, 14 (2), 5-25.
• Vryonides, M., Sabour, M. & Antikainen, A. (eds) (2008) Education in times of global changes, International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, 45 (2), 7-11
• Vryonides, M. and Vitsilakis, C. (2008) Widening Participation in Postgraduate Studies in Greece: Mature Working Women Attending to an E-learning Programme, Journal of Education Policy, Vol. 23, 197-206.
• Vryonides, M (2008) A Sociological Inquiry into Time Management in Postgraduate Studies by E-learning in Greece, European Journal of E-learning, Vol. 6, 67-76.
• Vryonides, M & Zembylas, M. (2008) Distance Education Opportunities for Mature Women in Greece and Cyprus: Comparative Perspectives and Implications, European Journal of Open, Distance and e-learning special issue “What is the Role of Distance Education in the Implementation of the "Right" or "Access" to Education?”
• Pavlou, V., Tsaousis, I. Vryonides, M., & Vitsilakis, C. (2008) Assessing the Dimensionality and other Psychometric Properties of a Greek Translation of the Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scale (Form B), Sex Roles, 59, 787-799
• Vryonides, M (2007) Capital, Habitus and Horizons for Social Action in Education, International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 44 (2), pp. 189- 200.
• Vryonides, M (2007) Social and cultural capital in educational research: Issues of operationalisation and measurement, British Educational Research Journal, Vol. 33 (6), pp. 867 – 885.
• Vryonides, M. (2007) Struggling between tradition and modernity: gender and educational choice-making in contemporary Cyprus, Gender and Education, Vol. 19 (1), pp. 93–107
• Vryonides, M. (2006) Parental and Marital Roles, Career Aspirations and Attitudes towards Marriage among Young Women in Greece, International Journal of the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 1(2), pp 121-130
• Green, T and Vryonides, M (2005) Ideological tensions in the educational choice practices of modern Greek Cypriot parents: the role of social capital, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 26 (3) 327-342.
• Vryonides, M (2003) Social Capital in a Historic Context of Modernisation: its Effects on Choice Making in Education, Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, 8, (2), 35-58.

• Vryonides, M. (2012) Social reproduction strategies and mass participation in higher education: the case of Cyprus, Paper presented at the 2nd ISA Forum Sociological Association, Buenos Aires, August 1-4, 2012
• Vryonides, M. (2012) Civic and Political participation in Southern Europe in the era of the current economic crisis, Paper presented at the 2012 LLAKES Conference,18 & 19 October 2012, Senate House, University of London
• Vryonides, M. and Lambrianou, I. (2012) The effects of the economic recession on participation in education and lifelong training: A comparative analysis in selected European countries, 2012 European Social Survey Conference 23-25 November 2012 , Nicosia, Cyprus
• Vryonides, M. and Pavlou, V. (2011)  Do social welfare provisions solidify stereotypical gender roles? Evidence from the European Social Survey, Paper presented at the international conference “Human Rights and Violent Behaviour: The Social and Educational Perspective” University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 18-19th of November 2011
• Βρυωνίδης M. και Γουλιάμος Κ. (2011) Κοινωνική πολιτική στη ΝΑ Ευρώπη: Μια συγκριτική ανάλυση των αποτελεσμάτων της Ευρωπαϊκής Κοινωνικής Έρευνας για Ελλάδα, Κύπρο, Βουλγαρία και Τουρκία, 4ο  διεθνές επιστημονικό συνέδριο ΕΕΚΠ, Ο ΡΟΛΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ ΣΗΜΕΡΑ: ΚΡΙΤΙΚΕΣ ΠΡΟΣΕΓΓΙΣΕΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΚΛΗΣΕΙΣ, Αθήνα, 10-11 Νοεμβρίου 2011
• Vryonides, Μ. and Eliophotou, Μ. (2011) Strategies for choice-making for higher education destinations: The interplay of socio-structural and individual factors, KEYNOTE SPEECH Sociological Association (ISA) RC04 & RC10 Mid-term conference “Social Justice and Participation: The Role of Higher Education”, University of Cyprus,  25-27 November 2011
• Vryonides, Μ. (2011) Social Trust in European Societies: Multilevel Analysis of Individuals and Cultures paper presented at the European Sociological Association Conference, Geneva, 7-9 September, 2011
• Vryonides, Μ. (2011) Participation in life long training: A comparative analysis of four European countries (Finland, UK, Cyprus and Bulgaria) paper presented at the British Sociological Association Conference, London, LSE, 6-8 April, 2011
• Vryonides, Μ. (2010) Factors affecting women’s participation in life long training across Europe: Cross cultural perspectives from the European Social Survey Paper presented at the Annual European Conference on Educational Research of the European Educational Research Association, August 2010, Helsinki.
• Vryonides, M. (2009) Religiosity in Cyprus: Towards secularization or cementing an ethnicity identity?, paper presented at the European Sociological Association Conference, Lisbon, 2-5 September, 2009
• Vryonides, M. (2009) Researching pre-adolescents’ anti-social behaviour in schools: A mixed method approach, paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research, Vienna 28-30 September, 2009
• Vryonides, M. (2009) Perspectives of Social discrimination across Europe: Cross-cultural findings from the European Social Survey, Interdisciplinary Seminar: Education, Globalization and Social discrimination, University of Athens – Institute of Education, University of London, 14-18 September 2009.
• Vryonides, M. (2008) Issues of operationalisation and measurement of cultural capital in the study of educational inequalities: Beyond paradigms, KEYNOTE SPEAKER in  the workshop Cultural Capital and Educational Inequalities: concepts, methods, strategies and new configurations, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 19-21 September 2008.
• Vryonides, M. (2008) New forms of education, new forms of exclusion? Mature students and e-learning programmes, Interdisciplinary Seminar: Education, Globalization and Social discrimination, University of Athens – Institute of Education, University of London, 15-18 September 2008.
• Vryonides, M. (2008) An examination of attitudes towards gender equality in the region of Dodecanese, Round table discussant at the conference “From Adolescence to Adulthood”, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 16/5/2008
• Vryonides, M. and Zembylas, M. (2007) Distance Education Opportunities for Mature Women in Greece and Cyprus, Paper presented at the  4th International Conference in Open and Distance Learning, Athens, Greece, 23/11/07 -25/11/07
• Vryonides, M. (2007) Parental aspirations for their children’s educational and occupational prospects in Greece: the role of social class and gender, Εισήγηση στο 6th International Conference of the European Research Network About Parents in Education, September’ 07, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• Vryonides, M. (2007) Social capital and educational processes within a modernizing context: implications for social justice, Εισήγηση στο Interdisciplinary Seminar “Education, Globalization and Social discrimination” που οργανώθηκε από τα Πανεπιστήμια Αθηνών και Λονδίνου, Αθήνα 10-14 Σεπτεμβρίου.
• Vryonides, M. (2007) A Sociological Investigation of Factors Affecting Attitudes Towards Gender Roles in Cyprus: Do Schools Reproduce or Ameliorate Traditional Ideologies? Paper presented at the Annual European Conference on Educational Research of the European Educational Research Association, September’ 07, Gents, Belgium.