Spyros Themelis

Lecturer, Middlesex University

Spyros Themelis is a lecturer in Education at Middlesex University, London. His interests are in the area of social class analysis, meritocracy, social mobility and education as well as on issues of social exclusion/inclusion. He has researched minority issues and taken part in international research projects on Roma/Gypsies. Apart from the UK, he taught and/or conducted research in Greece, Italy, Hungary, Romania and the USA. He is a research fellow of the Centre for Contemporary immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego and a member of the editorial board of the Journal for Critical Education Studies (JCEPS). He is currently working on a monograph on education and social class dynamics.