Elena Papagiannaki
elena papagiannaki

Dr Elena Papagiannaki

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 0131 455 5237

  E.Papagiannaki@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Eleni Papagiannaki is Lecturer in Economics at Edinburgh Napier University, UK and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Future of Work.
Her research focuses on the political economy of labour, labour economics, technical change and the future of work, and socioeconomic class in capitalist economies.

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Fellowships and Awards

  • Nomination for the Edinburgh Napier Student Association (ENSA) student-nominated Excellence Awards 2025 for Best Lecturer/Tutor of 2025.
  • Research Fellow at the Institute for the Future of Work
  • Finalist of Extra Mile Award: Inspirational Teacher of the Year Nomination, Birmingham City University 2020.
  • Fellow in Higher Education Academy

 

Invited Speaker

  • How can national policies support skills & innovation systems that reduce national/regional inequalities for AI for all?
  • 4th Industrial Revolution and the fusion of digital, physical and biological: The Political Economy of Technical Change?
  • Against Techno-Determinism: A Materialist Political Economy of the 4th Industrial Revolution
  • ‘Working Conditions, the Worker & the UK ‘Productivity Puzzle’
  • Online Summer Academy 2022: Workshops and Workshop Outputs
  • ‘Intelligent Machines & Labour: Wonderland, Pessiland or Stagnatia?’

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Trade Unions: Past, Present and Future
  • House of Lords, Committee participation

 

Reviewing

  • Peer-Reviewer for Capital & Class journal
  • Peer Reviewer for the Review of Radical Political Economics (RRPE)
  • Peer Reviewer for Economic Issues

 

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The political economy of labour and technological disruptions in capitalism

Book Chapter
Papagiannaki, E. (2025)
The political economy of labour and technological disruptions in capitalism. In J. MacLeavy, & F. H. Pitts (Eds.), The Handbook for the Future of Work (57-68). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003327561-8
This chapter examines the concept of the ‘future of work’ by exploring the different futures that scholars have imagined for the development of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4...

Implementing circular economy in the textile and clothing industry

Journal Article
Saha, K., Kumar Dey, P., & Papagiannaki, E. (2021)
Implementing circular economy in the textile and clothing industry. Business Strategy and the Environment, 30(4), 1497-1530. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2670
This research reveals the current state of the circular economy (CE), challenges and opportunities of implementing CE and interventions that could facilitate effective impleme...

Rising unpaid overtime: a critical approach to existing theories

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Papagiannaki, E. (2014)
Rising unpaid overtime: a critical approach to existing theories. International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 8(1), 68-88. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmcp.2014.059051
In the last period, especially before the current economic crisis began, the phenomenon of employees working long hours without been paid has been observed. This trend appears...

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • The Good Work Monitor Time Series 2024
  • The Good Work Monitor Time Series 2023
  • IFOW on a project entitled ‘The Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing’
  • The Good Work Monitor Time Series 2022
  • Faculty Research Degrees and Environment Committee of Birmingham City University (BCU), for employing a PhD student
  • 3-year Scholarship Award for Doctoral study at of Aston University (Graduate Teaching Assistantship)

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