CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL DATA Name: Gerasimos Surname: Karoulas Mobile phone number: +306972082042 E-mail: gerasimoskaroulas@yahoo.gr, gkaroulas@gmail.com EDUCATION 2015: Phd in Political Science and Public Administration Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. (10/10, First Class honours) Thesis title: Political parties and the emergence of political elites in the Greek party system of the period 1989-2011: factors of conformation of the leading political groups 2005: Master s Degree (MSc) in Political Communication and New Technologies, Media and Communication Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, general mark 9.53/10 (first Class honours). Dissertation Title: The Coverage of the war conflicts by the media: the cases of Vietnam, Gulf and Iraq wars 2003: BA Political Science Department of the University of Crete (general mark: 7.96/10) Dissertation title: Political Power and Media: Operation, problems and jurisdictions of the Greek Audiovisual Council. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Staff University of Crete, Department of Political Science, March 2017- September 2017: Teaching of the Module Political Parties and Representation. Vocational Training Center of GSEVEE (KEK GSEVEE) January 2015- December 2015): Adults trainer in seminars for employers and employees in SMEs Public Institution of Vocational Education of Argyroupoli (October 2007- June 2009) Reportage I: sources, Regional and Local Press, Theory of Athletic Reportage 1
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Institute of Applied Communication of Cyprus February 2010- December 2010: Production of Programmes for the Greek Television of the period 2009-2010 (researcher and co-author) October 2008- February 2009: Models of Television Diversity (researcher and author) March- June 2008: Diversity in the Greek Television field (researcher and author) Laboratory for Social Research in the Media of Media and Communication Faculty of the University of Athens March- May 2008: Observation of the extend and way of projection of political parties and personalities by the Greek news bulletins. (Funding: Hellenic Audiovisual Institute). November 2006- March 2007: Observation of the extend and way of projection of political parties and personalities by the Greek news bulletins, Funding: Ministry of State November- December 2006: The Pre-electoral Coverage of the 2006 Greek Municipal Elections by the Greek Television news March- July 2004: The Pre-electoral Campaign on the Television news Bulletins. The March 2004 General Elections Daily Regional Newspapers' Association and Daily Regional Newspapers Owners Union June 2007- February 2008: Research and Description of the Demographic Characteristics of Greek Provincial Newspapers. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Communication and Media Faculty June 2005- October 2005:. Media, society and citizens in the parliamentary elections of 2004, in Greece (research and co-author). Funding: University of Athens, (Surveyor Professor Manolis Hairetakis). 2
CONFERENCES-SEMINARS (as speaker) 13 th International Conference of the European Sociological Association: Who rules Greece? Greek Prime Ministers (1974-2016): Paths to leadership and/ or leading to crisis?, Athens, Greece, 29 August 1 September 2017. 10th International conference of European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR): Political parties and democratic representation in the era of crisis: mapping changes and functions in the composition of the Greek political elites, Prague, Czech Republic, 7-10 September 2016. 10th International conference of European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR): International elites during crisis and the quest for Democracy: A case study of the interventions of international elites to the function of the Greek state, Prague, Czech Republic, 7-10 September 2016. 1st International Conference in Contemporary Social Sciences, Crisis and the Social Sciences: New Challenges and Perspectives, Greek party system transformations in the crisis context. An approach on the establishment of a new party system in Greece, Rethymno, Crete, 10-12 June 2016. 2 nd Conference of the University of Peloponnese, Changing Greece and the World: Ideas and policies, Greek PMs of the Third Greek Republic: route to the political emerging or to the political destiny?, Loutraki, Greece, 11-13 December 2015. International Workshop Conference Political representation in Multilevel Politival Systems, University of Valencia: Greek political elites and the crisis period of 2010-2015: mapping changes under the context of elite theories, Valencia, Spain, 12-13 November 2015. Seminar of the UEAPME, Business Europe, CEEP The cost effectiveness of apprenticeship schemes making the business case for apprenticeships : Social dialogue for vocational education and training issues, Budapest, Hungary, 9-10 July 2015. 10th Conference of the Hellenic Political Science Association: Political tradition and political parties in the Third Greek Republic: emerging, reproduction and evolution of nepotism in the period 1989-2012, Athens, Greece, 18-20 December 2014. 3
8th International General Conference of European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR): Political Elites and Political Parties in Greece: recruitment channels and elite reproduction in the period 1989-2011, Glasgow, Scotland, 3-6 September 2014. 6th Conference of the Greek Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Group (GrEPOP), The evolution of the Greek party system: searching for standards, changes and trends : The evolution of the demographic profile and of the emergence patterns of the Greek political elites in the period 1989-2009, Thessaloniki, Greece, 6-7 June 2013. 9 th Conference of the Hellenic Political Science Association Political Parties in Transition: parties and party democracies under crisis periods : Political elites in crisis periods: the Greek case, Athens, Greece, 30-31 May 2012. 5 th Phd Candidates Symposium of the Hellenic Observatory of London School of Economics: Political Elites, Propagandization and the presentation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Greece, London, 2-3 June 2011 Conference of the media Department of the University of Athens, Media at War : Media at War: the presentation of the war conflict of Iraq from the Greek Television bulletins, Athens, 28 November 2005. PUBLICATIONS Karoulas G., Poulakidakos S., (2016), Greek political elites and political discourse in the era of crisis: between populism and elitism, Minutes of the 1 st International Conference in Contemporary Social Science, Crete: University of Crete. Karoulas G. (2016), Political tradition and political parties in the Third Greek Republic: emerging, reproduction and evolution of nepotism in the period 1989-2012, Minutes of the 10 th Conference of the Hellenic Political Science Association, Athens: Hellenic Political Science Association (in Greek, under publication). Karoulas G. (2015), Greek political culture has changed beyond recognition since the crisis began, electronic publication at the blog of London School of Economics and Political Science, available at: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2015/03/25/greekpolitical-culture-has-changed-beyond-recognition-since-the-crisis-began/ Karoulas G. (2015) Syriza s victory underlines the transformation of Greek political culture during the crisis, electronic publication at the blog of London School of 4
Economics and Political Science, available at: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2015/01/27/syrizas-victory-underlines-thetransformation-of-greek-political-culture-during-the-crisis/ Poulakidakos S., Karoulas G. (2013) Political elites and propaganda: The presentation of the MoU by the Greek parties, through the Greek TV news bulletins, in: Pleios G. (eds) The Crisis and the Media (in Greek). Athens: Papazisis. Karoulas G. (2013), Migration in Greece: impacts and changes in social and labour level, in: Karoulas G., Kontogianni E., Papakonstantinopoulou V., (eds) Social policy and employment, Athens: IME GSEVEE (educational notes for the training of syndicalists of GSEVEE). Funding: NSRF 2007-2013, (in Greek). Karoulas G. (2013), «Structure and operation of European Union institutions», in: Karatrasoglou I., Karoulas G., Kourtidis E., Tsartsara A., Tsiropoulou A. (eds.) European Union, Greek state and districts, Athens: IME GSEVEE (educational notes for the training of syndicalists of GSEVEE). Funding: NSRF 2007-2013, (in Greek). Karoulas G. (2013), Organization and operation of the state and small businesses, in: Karatrasoglou I., Karoulas G., Kourtidis E., Tsartsara A., Tsiropoulou A. (eds.) European Union, Greek state and districts, Athens: IME GSEVEE (educational notes for the training of syndicalists of GSEVEE). Funding: NSRF 2007-2013, (in Greek). Karoulas G. (2013), «Role and responsibilities of the representatives of small business owners: knowledge, skills and competences, in Katsoudas K., Karoulas G., Papakonstantinopoulou V., (eds) Small business owners syndicalism: GSEVEE, federations, unions, Athens: IME GSEVEE (educational notes for the training of syndicalists of GSEVEE). Funding: NSRF 2007-2013, (in Greek). Poulakidakos S., Karoulas G. (2011) Political Elites, propagandization and the presentation of the MoU in Greece. Electronic publication, available at: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/europeaninstitute/research/hellenicobservatory/cms% 20pdf/Events/2011-5th%20PhD%20Symposium/Karoulas-Poulakidakos.pdf 5
TRANSLATIONS Tomas Meyer (2002), Media Democracy: How the media colonize politics, Cambridge: Polity. Translation to the Greek from the English Language, by Politropon Publications (editor: Associate Professor George Pleios,). J.A. Schumpeter Capitalism, original publication available at the website of the department of Political Science, University of Crete, (editor Associate Professor Athanasios Giouras): http://www.soc.uoc.gr/political/?page_id=697. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE June 2012- present: Executive member of the Small Enterprises Institute of the Hellenic Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen and Merchants (I.M.E. G.S.E.V.E.E.). Job description: scheduling, coordination and implementation of physical object under the framework of Operational Programme: Human Resources Development (National Strategic Reference Framework 2007-2013) and Erasmus+ program, in the scientific objects of social dialogue, capacity building, work based learning focused on apprenticeships, active labour market policies, publicity. April 2013- January 2016: Auditor of the Quality Audit of Data Collection (P.E.S.S) of the Association of Greek Market and Opinion Research Companies (S.E.D.E.A.). Job description: auditing of the companies- members of the Association regarding their compliance with the research standards that holds in national and international range (ESOMAR/SEDEA). March 2009- December 2011: Auditor of the Television Audience Measurement Audit Committee (Ε.Ε.Ε.Τ.). Job description: auditing of the television audience measurement research which is conducted from Nielsen Audience Measurement Company (sample selection, statistical indexes, conduction of interviews in samples households, improving proposals). January 2011- May 2011: Scientific associate of the Greek Parliament Member Mrs Aikaterini Farmaki. Job description: writing of speeches, press releases, information notes, research and commentary of laws and bills. June 2009- October 2009: Coordinator and research surveyor on behalf of the Small Enterprises Institute (I.M.E.) of the Hellenic Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen 6
and Merchants (G.S.E.V.E.E.) for the conduction of the Job Description of the profession «Gas station employee» (Funding: NSRF 2007-2013, Operational Programme Human Resources Development ). January 2008- έως January 2009: Research Executive in the Client Service department of the Polls and Marketing Research Company Focus Bari. Job description: scheduling, conduction and analysis of qualitative and quantitative researches (scheduling of research and Questionnaires, processing and presentation of findings) March 2008- December 2010: Scientific Associate of the Research Institute of Applied Communication of Cyprus. May 2007- December 2007: Scientific Associate of Daily Regional Newspapers' Association and Daily Regional Newspapers Owners Union. March 2004- May 2008: Researcher of the Laboratory for Social Research in the Media of Media and Communication Faculty of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Director Professor George Pleios) KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES Greek: Native speaker English: Certificate of Proficiency in English Italians: Very good COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE ECDL Progress (Word, Excel και Internet), powerpoint SPSS ABEKT (system for the cataloging and archiving in Libraries) 7