Prof Eleni Andreouli

Professional biography

I joined the Open University in 2013. Prior to that, I worked at the London School of Economics where I also completed my PhD. I completed my first degree in Psychology at the Panteion University in Athens, Greece.

Research interests

My research is on the social psychology of citizenship as a practice. I am interested in how citizenship is constructed and performed from the perspectives of citizens themselves through everyday sense-making around politics. A particular focus of my work is understanding the psychosocial processes of the emergence of new political identities and ideologies in contexts of societal change. My research includes work on lay political sense-making around Brexit and European identities, Covid-19, and the rise of different kinds of populism. Another strand of my research explores policies of citizenship education in the UK comparing these with young people's everyday practice. Previous research includes work on identity transformation in border-crossing processes, particularly naturalisation and intra-European immigration.

I am a member of the Culture and Social Psychology research group (CuSP) of the Open Psychology Research Centre (OPRC).

Teaching interests

I have worked on the presentation of several BSc psychology modules (DE300 Investigating Psychology 3, DE200 Investigating Psychology 2, and others). I co-chaired the production of the third-level social psychology module DD317 Advancing Social Psychology. 

External collaborations

I am a member of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) and the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). I have been in the Editorial Boards of several social psychology journals and an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Social Psychology.