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Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Public Policy
Room:Ìý3.07, 29/30 Tavistock Square
Email:Ìýv.karokis-mavrikos@ucl.ac.uk

Biography

I joined the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº as an Associate Lecturer in Public Policy in 2023.Ìý

Since 2020, I have been a PhD Candidate in European Public Policy at the University of Surrey (UoS) as a Doctoral College full-scholarship recipient. My thesis studies agenda setting and policy formulation dynamics at the EU level, focusing on pharmaceutical policymaking. I have received fieldwork funding from the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and from the UK Political Studies Association (PSA). I hold an MSc in Public Policy and Administration (with Distinction) and a BSc in Government and Economics from LSE.Ìý

I have teaching experience in political science, research methods and public policy. In 2022 I received the UoS prize for Innovative Teaching and in 2023 I was named the Postgraduate Researcher of the Year across the UoS Faculty of Arts and Sciences. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.Ìý

Research

My research interests centre around policy process dynamics at the national and EU-level, public health, digital governance and crisis management. I explore the interactions of actors and institutions across policymaking stages and levels of government, which shape public policy change. I am keen on building and refining public policy frameworks through application-driven contextual adaptations. I engage in both qualitative and quantitative designs, and I have developed multiple original datasets through interactions with policy stakeholders.Ìý

Publications

Book chapters

• Karokis-Mavrikos, V. & Mavrikou, M. (2023, Forthcoming). Shifting Ideational Paradigms in Public Health: the case of Greece. In: The Modern Guide to the Multiple Streams Framework. N. Zahariadis, N. Herweg, R. Zohlnhöfer & E. Petridou (eds). Edward Elgar.

• Zahariadis, N. & Karokis-Mavrikos, V. (2022). Centralization and Lockdown: The Greek Response. ÌýIn: Policy Styles and Trust in the Age of Pandemics: Global Threat National Responses, N. Zahariadis, E. Petridou, T. Exadaktylos & J. Sparf (eds), 79-100. Routledge.

Journal articles

• Zahariadis, N.,ÌýKarokis-Mavrikos, V.,ÌýExadaktylos, T.,ÌýKyriakidis, A.,ÌýSparf, J., &ÌýPetridou, E.Ìý(2023).ÌýAdvancing the operationalization of national policy styles.ÌýEuropean Policy Analysis,Ìý9,Ìý200–218.Ìý

• Mavrikou, M., Zahariadis, N. & Karokis-Mavrikos,ÌýV. (2023). The strategy of venue creation: Explaining health policy change in Greece,ÌýInternational Review of Public Policy, 4(3).

• Karokis-Mavrikos, V., Mavrikou, M., & Yfantopoulos, J. (2022). Stakeholder perceptions and public health system performance evaluation: Evidence from Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic.ÌýFrontiers in Political Science,Ìý4.

• LSE GV314 Group. (2020). UK parliamentary select committees: crowdsourcing for evidence-based policy or grandstanding?.ÌýThe Journal of Legislative Studies,Ìý26(2), 223-247.

• Karokis-Mavrikos, V. (2023). Crisis as a window of opportunity for digital governance transformation: the case of Greece during the Covid-19 pandemic.ÌýPSA Greek Politics Specialist Group Working Paper,Ìý37.

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Teaching

I teach PUBL0040 - Theories & Actors of the Policy Process, PUBL0017 - Making Policy Work and POLS0082 - Policy Making