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Overview
Dr Panagiotis Giannarakis is an applied economist working in the economics of education, with a particular focus on student engagement, assessment design, academic performance, and learning analytics. His work examines how educational policies and teaching innovations, including deadline extensions, forward feedback, dissertation support, and continuous e-assessment, affect students’ learning outcomes and performance. He also has wider research interests in empirical labour economics, skill mismatches, job flows, earnings, migration, and productivity.
Qualifications
- Senior Fellow of HEA, Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom, 2025
- Fellow of HEA, Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom, 2019 - 2025
- PhD in Economics, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, 2016
- MSc in Economics and Econometrics, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, 2011
- BSc in Economics, University of Crete, Greece, 2009
Employment
- Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), City, University of London, United Kingdom, 2026 - present
- SPGA Digital Champion, City, University of London, United Kingdom, 2026 - present
- Associate Professor (Principal Teaching Fellow), University of Southampton, United Kingdom, 2025
- Assistant Professor (Senior Teaching Fellow), University of Southampton, United Kingdom, 2020 - 2025
- External Collaborator, International Labour Organization, Switzerland, 2016
- Lecturer (Teaching Fellow), University of Southampton, United Kingdom, 2015 - 2019
Publications
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Journal article
- Gall, T., Giannarakis, P. and Lotti, E. (2026). Academic performance, background and pre-existing quantitative skills of economics starters: Mind the Gap! International Review of Economics Education, 53, pp. 100356-100356. doi:10.1016/j.iree.2026.100356