Charikleia Tzanakou

Charoula Tzanakou joined the Institute in January 2008. Prior to this, she completed her Bachelor degree in International and European Economic Studies at Athens University of Economics and Business. During and after completing her Master degree in European Institutions and Policy making at Lancaster University, she worked in the European University Association for two years. Charoula has thus cultivated an interest in the affairs of EU policies and especially about the synergies between research and education and the links with the labour market. She has worked on various European projects (Trends V, LLUP-Masters Project, Trends 2010) related to higher education issues in European Universities. She is currently a Research Assistant in IER whilst undertaking her doctoral studies at the University of Warwick.

She has become particularly interested in the role that doctoral studies could play in the knowledge-based economy and policies associated with that potential. In her proposed doctoral thesis, she aims to explore the career paths of Greek doctoral graduates in Science and Engineering and their integration patterns to the Greek labour market.

Research Interests:

Doctoral education and labour market outcomes, career paths, EU social policy, EU higher education and research policy.

Research projects

• Trends 2010 (ongoing), EUA publication, for more see: http://www.eua.be/trends-in-european-higher-education/
• LLUP – Master Programmes in Europe (ongoing), EUA publication, for more see: http://www.eua.be/bologna-universities-reform/master-programmes-in-europe/
• Database on Education Exchange Programmes (DEEP) Project, (2008)  on behalf of ACA (Academic Cooperation Association) for Greek information on scholarships funded by ASEF (Asia-Europe Foundation)  for more see: http://www.deep.asef.org/
• ‘Doctoral Career Pathways, Skills and Training : Options analysis for the collection of information about the early careers of UK Doctoral Graduates’  (2008) by Kate Purcell, Peter Elias and Charoula Tzanakou available at: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/cmsweb/downloads/rcuk/researchcareers/opana.pdf
•  ‘Trends V Report : Universities shaping the European Higher Education Area’(2007),  by David Crosier, Lewis Purser and Hanne Smidt, EUA publication, available at: http://www.eua.be/fileadmin/user_upload/files/Publications/Final_Trends_Report__May_10.pdf
  

Publications

• ‘National Rectors’ Conferences Booklet: Structures and Organization of the National Higher Education Systems in Europe’ (2007) by Charoula Tzanakou and Annamaria Trusso (ed.), Bologna Handbook, RAABE Publ.
  

Teaching

She has been a tutor in Quantitative Analysis of Management for Warwick Business School (WBS)

Pamela Suzanne

Pamela Suzanne joined the Institute in 2009. Her educational background includes a Magna cum Laude Bachelor in Business Administration and an MSc in Organisational Studies from the University of San Andres, Argentina. She has worked as a Research Assistant at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (following an exchange student program), and as a Research and Teaching Assistant at University of San Andres. In this last job, she was in charge of the seminar sessions of Change Management and Introduction to Business undergraduate courses, and assisted on projects related to employee-organisation relationships, social networks and university-industry linkages.
Her publications consist of a book based on her undergraduate thesis on the subject of Human Resources practices that promote entrepreneurial behaviours inside organisations, and several proceedings of national and international conferences. Her interests include career development, career change, self-employment, knowledge workers, and social networks.

Research projects

• MATURE – Continuous Social Learning in Knowledge Networks (collaborative project) (FP7, 2008-2012)
  

Book

• Suzanne, Pamela A. (2007) Intrapreneurship: Cómo desarrollar el comportamiento emprendedor en la empresa (Intrapreneurship: How to develop entrepreneurial behaviours in established firms). Buenos Aires: Editorial Aplicación Tributaria.
  

Conference Proceedings

• Suzanne, P. A. & Dabos, G. E. 2008. “The influence of social structure on career decision making”. International Association for Education and Vocational Guidance Conference, ‘The Role of Guidance in Achieving Social Ecology and Ecological Economy’, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Dabos, Guillermo, Suzanne, Pamela & Gonzalez, Andrea. 2008. “A new role for leading universities in emerging economies: Building the local capabilities to develop knowledge-based STPs”. XXV IASP World Conference on Science and Technology Parks, Johannesburg.
• Suzanne, P. A., & Dabos, G. E. 2007. “Developmental networks in knowledge organizations: Individual and organizational level implications”. V International Symposium for Organizational Analysis, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Suzanne, P. A., & Dabos, G. E. 2007. “Developmental networks: Impact on knowledge workers’ careers”. XII Human Resources Researchers’ National Conference, La Plata, Argentina.

Invited Presentations

• Suzanne, P. A. 2007. “Human Resources practices that promote Corporate Entrepreneurship”. VIII National and International Administration Congress, CPCECABA.

Wan Arnidawati Wan Abdullah

Wan Arnidawati Wan Abdullah joined the Institute in 2009. Following a Bachelor’s at the International Islamic University of Malaysia, she completed her Master’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the National University of Malaysia, where she also worked for two years as a lecturer cum counsellor (at Kurniawan College). She then joined the Malaysian government in 2001 as an Assistant Director of Labour, a role which involved policy making, drafting, amendment and administration of labour laws. Her work also involved making presentations on labour laws and employment issues in seminars organized by the government, employers’ organization and non-governmental organizations, in addition to providing advisory services on employment matters to the public. In this last job, she led the “Promotion for Employment for the Special Group (Women, The Disabled People, The Elderly People and the Young Person) Unit”.  This required her to support programmes designed to increase the levels of participation in employment among these groups in the private sector.

Research Interests:

Career development, Career path, Labour market and social policy, Employment support for the disabled.