About

Dimokritos Kavadias (°1969) is Associate Professor at the Political Science Department of the Free University of Brussels (VUB). He started as a graduated researcher on topics of urban policy (1993) and Social integration of immigrants in Brussels (1995). From 1996 on his research focused on education and youth culture. He graduated as PhD in Political Science (Brussels 2004) on the topic of the political socialization in Flanders. After graduation, he collaborated on devising a new electoral law for the DRCongo (2005), and supervised from 2005 on policy oriented research commissioned by the National Institute for Statistics (2005), the King-Baudouin-foundation (2006-2009), the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (CGKR - 2006), Community Education Flanders (GO! 2008), the Flemish Association for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance (VVOB - 2009), and the Flemish Ministry of Education (2005, 2006, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2021). The more fundamental research focuses on the influence of schools and teachers on the shaping of political attitudes and knowledge of adolescents (political socialisation) and more recently on social cohesion in schools. He teaches methodological seminars as well as courses on ‘Research Design’, ‘Political Psychology’ and ‘Citizenship and Participation’ in the Bachelors and Master’s program in Political Science at the VUB.

Research Interests

Citizenship, Civil Society, Political Methodology, Political Psychology, Political Sociology, Methods, Education, Youth

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Political Psychology
• Citizenship
• Teaching and Learning Politics
• Political Methodology