Dr Maria-Christina Vogkli is a Guest Teacher at the LSE Sociology Department and a Research Affiliate at the Hellenic Observatory. Maria-Christina holds a PhD in Sociology from LSE. Funded by ESRC, her thesis was a multi-sited urban ethnography looking at the intersection of care, homelessness, and urban space. She has served as a Research Officer at LSE and has taught Advanced Research Methods, Criminology, and Digital Humanities at LSE and King’s College London. During her PhD, she was a Research Assistant in two collaborative projects on financial inclusion and equity crowdfunding. In addition to her academic work, Maria-Christina works as a researcher and consultant with local authorities and NGOs in Greece and the UK on projects investigating vulnerable groups, homelessness, service provision, the commissioning of social care and the experiences of those providing and receiving support. In this capacity, Maria-Christina has presented her findings and participated in international conferences, NGOs, local authorities, and scrutiny review meetings of councils. Her broader research interests include urban sociology and socio-spatial inequalities, care and welfare provision, homelessness, the lived experience of vulnerable groups, homelessness, and qualitative research. She has a BA in Politics from the University of Athens, an MSc in Social Research from Birkbeck College, University of London, and an MSc in Sociology from LSE.

Research interests: Welfare provision and Social Care; Vulnerable Groups; Homelessness; Urban Space, marginalisation, and socio-spatial inequalities; Qualitative Research