Dr. Sophia Stavrou is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Cyprus. She is also Research Associate at the Mediterranean Center of Sociology, Political Science and History (MESOPOLHIS UMR 7064, AMU-CNRS). She has completed her university studies in the field of Sociology (License, Maîtrise, Master) and obtained a PhD in Sociology from Aix-Marseille Université in France in 2012, with a research fellowship for academic excellence from the Ministry Higher Education and Research, Rectorate of the Aix-Marseille Academy, and the PACA Regional Council. Previously she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the research project "Enhancing Employability of Graduates of Humanities and Social Sciences" for which she received a research fellowship from the University of Cyprus (E.U.G.E, Postdoctoral Programs 2016). She taught at the University of Cyprus, Department of Social and Political Sciences (2013-2017) and Aix-Marseille University, Department of Sociology (2006-2010) and worked as Researcher at the French National Institute for Research INRP in Lyon (2006-2008). She also participated in large-scale international research programs in the field of European policies to combat social inequality in education, intra-European youth migration in the context of the economic crisis and youth employment. She currently participates as Researcher in the international project PPECPA 'A Sociology of humanisation of elder care through continuous training' funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and is the coordinator of the programme YOUTHTRAMS 'From Higher Education to Work: Sociology of Youth Trajectories in the Making' funded by the UCY. Her work has been published in international scientific journals, such as International Studies in Sociology of Education, Journal of Youth Studies, Journal of Education Policy, Sociologie du Travail, Mots. Les Langages du Politique, among others, as well as in collective edited volumes in international academic publishing houses. She is the author of the monograph L'Université au diapason du Marché (L'Harmattan-Academia, 2017).