TSIOLIS GEORGIOS

Professor on Research Methodology in Social Sciences – Qualitative Research Methods.

Contact
University of Crete
Department of Sociology
Gallos Campus
741 00 Rethymno, Greece
Τel.:+302831077497
Email: tsiolisg at uoc.gr

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giorgos_Tsiolis

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Education

  • PhD in Social Science. Department of Sociology. University of Crete (2002)
  • B.A. in Philosophy and Social Science. Department of Philosophy and Social Studies. University of Crete (1989)

Teaching Interests

  • Qualitative methods of social research
  • Analysis of qualitative data
  • Biographical and narrative approach
  • Social identities and biographies in the late modernity.

Fields of academic interests

  • Methodology of Social Research
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Biographical & narrative approach
  • Mixed and combined method
  • Secondary analysis of qualitative data
  • Sociology of work

Selected publications

  • Tsiolis, G. (2026). Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences: Epistemological Foundations, Research Design and Research Practices. Athens: Kritiki. [in Greek].
  • Kofti, D., & Tsiolis, G. (2026). “Biographical and ethnographic approaches in dialogue: Investigating life (hi)stories and relations of work.” In G. Rosenthal, J. Becker, M. Pohn-Lauggas, & A. Worm (Eds.), Handbook of Biographical Research in the Social Sciences. Edward Elgar Publishing. Forthcoming.
  • Tsiolis, G. (2026). “Grounded theory.” In Th. Iosifides (Ed.), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Research Methods in the Social Sciences (pp. 105–112). Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Kasseri, Z., & Tsiolis, G. (2025). “‘I feel like I’m swallowing stones’: Qualitative research in the field of addiction as emotionally challenging work.” Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 26(1), Art. 1.
    https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.1.4289
  • Tsiolis, G. (2023). Precarious Biographies: Career Pathways and Identities in the Transforming World of Work. Athens: Gutenberg. [in Greek].
  • Tsiolis, G., & Siouti, I. (2023). “Exploring biographies in a rapidly changing labor world.” Current Sociology, 71(4), 587–606.
    https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921221132520
  • Kallas, G., Kondyli, D., Linardis, A., Nagopoulos, N., & Tsiolis, G. (Eds.). (2022). Development of Infrastructures for the Production and Management of Social Science Data. Athens: Alexandria / Social Data Network. [in Greek].
  • Tsiolis, G., & Christodoulou, M. (2021). Social Causation and Biographical Research: Philosophical, Theoretical and Methodological Arguments. London/New York: Routledge.
  • Tsiolis, G., & Kasseri, Z. (2021). “Drug addiction treatment as biographical work: Life-stories of young women in recovery from addiction.” In C. Chatwin, G. R. Potter, & B. Werse (Eds.), Who? Variation and Distinction in the European Drugs Landscape (pp. 41–56). Pabst.
  • Tsiolis, G. (2018). “Biographieforschung in Griechenland.” In H. Lutz, M. Schiebel, & E. Tuider (Eds.), Handbuch Biographieforschung (pp. 753–764). Springer VS.
  • Tsiolis, G. (2014). Methods and Techniques of Analysis in Qualitative Social Research. Athens: Kritiki. [in Greek].
  • Tsiolis, G. (2012). “Biographical constructions and transformations: Using biographical methods for studying transcultural identities.” Papers: Revista de Sociologia, 97(1), 113–127.
  • Tsiolis, G. (2006). Life Histories and Biographical Narratives: The Biographical Approach in Sociological Research. Athens: Kritiki. [in Greek].