Researcher

SHORT CV

Efthymia Makridou is a researcher at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), Greece. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis University, completed in collaboration with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She has participated in several international and national research projects. She has held academic teaching positions in France at University Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis and University of Lille, as well as in Greece at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has co-edited a thematic journal issue and an edited volume in French focusing on care work.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

HIRATA, H., MAKRIDOU, E. & MATSUO, M. (2017) ‘Trajectoires professionnelles et rapports sociaux: le travail du care dans une perspective comparative’ [Career trajectories and social relations: A comparative perspective on care work], in DAMAMME, A., HIRATA, H. & MOLINIER, P. (eds.) Le travail entre public, privé et intime. Comparaisons et enjeux internationaux du care [Work between the public, private and intimate spheres: International comparisons and issues of care]. Paris: L’Harmattan, pp. 33–53. Spanish translation: DAMAMME, A., HIRATA, H. & MOLINIER, P. (eds.) (2021) El trabajo: entre lo público, lo privado y lo íntimo. Comparaciones y desafíos del cuidado. Buenos Aires: EdUNLa.

MAKRIDOU, E. (2016), ‘Cuidados e itinerarios de migrantes. Aprender de la diversidad de situaciones’ [Care and Migrant Trajectories: Learning from the Diversity of Situations] Sociología del Trabajo, n°86, p. 28–43.

HIRATA, H. & MAKRIDOU, E. (2015), “Travail. Éthique. Politique. Les développements récents des théories du care en France. Regard sur… le care” [Work. Ethics. Politics. The Recent Developments in Care Theory in France], Travail, Genre et Sociétés, n° 33, p. 172–176. DOI: 10.3917/tgs.033.0172. It was also published in the scientific journal La Revista Latino–americana de Estudos do Trabalho, n° 32, 2014, p. 253–258.

MAKRIDOU Efthymia (2015), “Comment les aides à domicile pensent–elles à la fois le bien–être des bénéficiaires et le leur” [How Do Home‑Care Workers Think About Both the Beneficiaries’ Well‑Being and Their Own?], in BERCOT Régine (ed), Le genre du mal–être au travail [Gender and Psychosomatic Health at Work], Toulouse, Octares, p. 123–150. (in French)

ORGANISATION OF WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES

 2020: Member of the organizing committee of the international conference "Inclusion in Health: Practices, Training, Innovations", Aristotle University of Thessaloniki–Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), hybrid conference, 20–21 March.
2018: With Aurélie Damamme, co–organizer of the conference “Crises du care? Regards critiques à partir des théories féministes” [Crisis in care? Critical Insights from Feminist Theory Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, 12 April. 

2013: Member of the organising committee of the international conference 'Théories et pratiques du care: comparaisons internationales' [Theories and practices of care: international comparisons], Paris Descartes University, Paris, 13–14 June.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Contemporary forms and conditions of employment
• Employment policies
• Transformations in labour relations
• Care work
• Intersectionality and work

SELECTED PROJECTS

• 02.2019–04.2020 Project PHARE, “Les expériences du handicap en France et en Grèce. Relations entre personnes handicapées, aidants familiaux et professionnels” [Experiences of disability in France and Greece: Relations between persons with disabilities, carers and health professionals], Member of the Research Team, French Institute for Public Health Research (IRESP/CNSA).
• 02.2018–04.2020 Project SMILE, “Strengthening primary healthcare in isolated and disadvantaged cross‑border areas”, Member of the Research Team, INTERREG V‑A GREECE–BULGARIA.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• APELLE, M., DAMAMME, A. & MAKRIDOU, E. (eds.) (2025) Handicap et santé. Expériences professionnelles et perspectives critiques [Disability and health. Professional experiences and critical perspectives]. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes. Also available as an ebook: https://www.puv-editions.fr/ouvrage/handicap-et-sante/ (Accessed: 20 March 2026).
• DAMAMME, A., IBOS, C. & MAKRIDOU, E. (eds.) (2022) ‘Luttes de care. Entre résistances et action collective’ [The struggles for care. Between resistance and collective action], Cahiers du Genre, 72(1).

EDUCATIONAL WORK

• 2018 – 2019 Academic Fellow, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• 2015 – 2016 Teaching and Research Fellow (ATER), Université de Lille
• 2012 Teaching and Research Fellow (ATER), Université Paris 8