Dedotsi Sofia

Brief CV 

Sofia Dedotsi (PhD) is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Work, University of West Attica, in Athens, Greece since 2020. She is a qualified social worker, with field experience in child protection and family support in the UK (2007-2010) and Greece (2014-2015). She has been teaching in different social work courses in Universities in Greece and UK since 2010. Her research interests lie in critical theories and analysis in social work, including anti-oppressive practice, social work education, migration as well as social policy. In 2009, whilst working as a social worker in Wales, UK, she gained the Advanced Award in Social Work from the PQ Consortium for Wales and she was also an elected board member of the European Social Work Research Association (ESWRA), between 2014-2019, where she also took the position of Vice-Chair (2017-2019). She has published in several academic journals, books and conferences as well as given guest lectures in Universities in and outside Greece. She is an ad-hoc reviewer for many journals and recently joined the Editorial Board of the upcoming European Social Work Research Journal.