Christina Angeli

Christina Angeli is a PhD candidate at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research focuses on media and health diplomacy with special emphasis on the health aspect of refugee and migration crisis in Greece. She graduated with a Bachelor Degree in “Political Sciences” from Aristotle University, holds a MA in “Journalism and New Media” (Aristotle University) and a Master’s Degree in International Studies with specialization in “Strategic Studies and International Politics” from the Department of International and European Studies of the University of Macedonia. Christina Angeli was an instructor of the “Science Journalism” postgraduate course offered by the English-taught Master Program in “Digital Media, Communication and Journalism” at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications of the Aristotle University. She was a “Junior Visiting Fellow” in the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She was a Research Fellow in the research program “Effects of Media Representations of the Immigrant and Refugee Crisis on Intergroup Perceptions and Attitudes between Greeks and Immigrants: An Experimental Approach”, Aristotle University. Now she is a researcher in the research project: “Stigma in the media: Investigating journalists’ perceptions and attitudes towards stigmatized minorities and developing an anti-stigma intervention”. This research project is funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation within the framework of call “Basic Research Financing (Horizontal support for all Sciences), National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Greece 2.0)”.

Naya Kalfeli

Naya Kalfeli holds a PhD in Journalism (Aristotle University), a MA in International and European Studies with a specialization in International Law and Diplomatic Studies (Panteion University) and a BA in Journalism and Mass Communications (Aristotle University). Her research intends to answer questions on how the media portray conflicts, crises and diversity and how these portrayals affect people’s perceptions, attitudes and emotions about the world we live in and about the “Others”. At the moment, she is an Adjunct Lecturer at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki teaching media diversity. At the same time (2023-2025), she is a Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation Research Fellow working on a research project called ‘Stigma in the media: Investigating journalists’ perceptions and attitudes towards stigmatized minorities and developing an anti-stigma intervention’, implemented at the School of Journalism & Mass Communications of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (Horizontal support for all Sciences), National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Greece 2.0). In the past (2020-2021), she has been a European Social Fund Research Fellow in the project ‘Effects of Media Representations of the Immigrant and Refugee Crisis on Intergroup Perceptions and Attitudes between Greeks and Immigrants’ (MediaRefugees), co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Social Fund – ESF) within the framework of the Operational Programme Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning 2014-2020 under the theme “Support of Researchers with an Emphasis in Young Researchers”. She is the author of many scientific papers in peer reviewed journals.

Christos Frangonikolopoulos

Christos A. Frangonikolopoulos is Professor of International Relations and Mass Communications. He has been Jean Monnet Chair on European Integration Journalism, at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications of Aristotle University. He studied Politics and Government (BA Honors) and International Relations (PhD) at the University of Kent at Canterbury (England). In Greece, he is the co-author of books on the subjects of Global Politics, International Non-Governmental Organizations, Greek Foreign Policy and the Media, Cosmopolitan Democracy. Abroad he is the editor, author/co-author of many chapters/papers in edited volumes and peer reviewed journals.