Spyros Spyrou is Professor of Anthropology at European University Cyprus. His work has explored children’s identities (especially in relation to nationalism, migration, and borders) as well as questions of poverty, social exclusion, and vulnerability including ways of empowering children and young people to become knowledge producers through participatory approaches to research. In his most recent work, he has engaged with broader discussions on knowledge production in Childhood Studies. Spyros is currently working on a project funded by the A.G. Leventis Foundation and the Hellenic Observatory at the LSE researching the role of children and young people as political actors in light of their participation in climate action. He is the author of Disclosing Childhoods: Research and Knowledge Production for a Critical Childhood Studies (2018, Palgrave Macmillan) and co-editor of Reimagining Childhood Studies (2019, Bloomsbury) and Children and Borders (2014, Palgrave Macmillan). He is also Associate Editor of The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies, co-editor of the journal Childhood (SAGE), and co-editor of the book series Studies in Childhood and Youth (Palgrave).
