Dr Georgia Chryssouli is a Greek-British Historian Archaeologist, Art and Film Historian and Theoretician,
PhD, MA, B.A. Hons.

She holds a PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex in England, and an MA in
Modern Art and Theory - Art History and Theory / Film Studies also from the University of Essex. She
also holds a BA Hons in History, Archaeology and Art History with a specialization in Archaeology and Art
History from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is a graduate of the Classical
Lyceum of Anavryta.

Beyond her formal degrees, she has studied and trained at the Archaeological Society of Athens, at the
Sorbonne Université and Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, at EDN, European Documentary
Network, in Amsterdam, at HAUS, Finnish Institute of Public Management in Helsinki, as well as at other
educational, training and professional organizations in the UK and Greece. Her studies have covered a
wide range of subjects, including Environmental Archaeology, Paleoanthropology and Paleopathology,
historical documentary production and cultural heritage management, as well as distance e-education,
teaching and learning.

In the field, she has participated in excavations at prehistoric sites and settlements in Greece, the
Balkans and the Middle East, and has also worked as an exhibition curator in the Museum of Geology
and Palaeontology in Athens.

In parallel with her research, she has taught in secondary, post-secondary, tertiary, continuing and
lifelong adult education in the UK and Greece. She has collaborated with state and private educational
and professional institutes, including The Open University in the UK, the University of Essex in England,
the University of Dundee in Scotland, and the Hellenic Open University. She is also a certified member of
several professional associations in the UK, where she has achieved excellent continuing professional
assessment.

Her qualifications further include Full Registered (General) Status with the General Teaching Council for

Scotland, GTCS, for teaching History, Classics, Ancient Greek, Art and Design in secondary and post-
secondary British/Scottish state education—considered among the best worldwide. In Greece, she also

has full pedagogical training and experience with a PE02 Philology qualification. She is proficient in
English, Greek, ancient Greek and Latin, fluent in German, and competent in Gaelic, Russian and Arabic.

Alongside her academic career, she has been representing the portfolio for the educational and cultural
programme in the Papagou-Cholargos City Council in Athens, Greece with an independent political party.
In this role, she serves as a professional expert in the relevant fields, focusing on school and
extracurricular activities for children, continuing education and lifelong learning for adults, as well as Arts
and Culture activities.

She has also participated and presented papers at international conferences and has published papers
and articles in international, reputable academic journals and specialized publications.

Throughout her educational, research and professional career, she has consistently pursued an
interdisciplinary approach. She supports the hands-on approach in education, is an advocate of free
thought, free speech, individual freedom and the protection of human rights, and believes that the

general population’s undeterred access to knowledge and intellectual development—regardless of
socioeconomic class, origin and age—contributes to achieving those goals.

At present, she is an associate lecturer in continuing education and lifelong learning in Scotland, and an
academic instructor to university students at the Universities of Dundee and Abertay, as well as the Open
University. She is also professionally active on Facebook, where she shares her interests in Humanities
Studies and Arts and Film with the public.