Nicoletta Theodorou

B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

Nikoletta is engaged in research with social and psychological implications, while she is a person-centred counsellor and lecturer in counselling and psychotherapy.
She completed her studies in Person-Centred Counselling in Scotland and did her Masters in Child and Youth Counselling at the University of Nottingham. During her studies she worked as a researcher and person-centred counsellor at Strathclyde University Research Clinic and in adolescent and young people’s support services.
In 2016, she secured a three-year scholarship from the Economic and Social Council of Great Britain to begin her PhD studies at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. In 2019/20 she was awarded a PhD in social sciences from the Department of Social Policy and Equality. Her doctoral thesis studied the relational patterns of populations who have experienced multiple social exclusion and stigma with existing welfare structures.
During her studies she worked as a research consultant at the Centre for Social Policy on Homelessness in Europe and later as a social researcher at UNICEF on refugees in Greece. Her research interests focus on issues of social exclusion, as well as on the importance of relational and psychological trauma in early life and adulthood.