I am a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) and queer scholar, currently a Research Associate at the University of Bath. I work on the ESRC funded interdisciplinary project Living at Home which addresses end of life care, housing, and poverty.
My research brings psychology into direct tension with prison studies, death studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis. I focus on how pain, pleasure, punishment, and resistance are produced, inhabited, and contested across institutional and intimate sites. I am currently completing a monograph under contract with Bristol University Press that advances a critical re reading of punishment through these dynamics. The book draws on empirical research conducted in Cyprus, the United States, and the United Kingdom, alongside archival material.
Between 2022 and 2025, I held a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship at the University of Warwick and the University of California, Berkeley. During this time, I was the Principal Investigator for a qualitative study on self destruction, power, pleasure, resistance, and pain in UK prisons. I have also worked as an educator and researcher in prisons in the United States, including San Quentin, and in Cyprus.
My academic background bridges psychology, gender studies, and social theory, with a sustained commitment to community engagement and collective organising. I hold a PhD in Gender Studies from the University of Cyprus, and both a BA and MA in Psychology from Panteion University in Athens.
My work is shaped by sustained engagement across carceral and care institutions. I spent five years as an educator in the Central Prison of Cyprus, an experience that reconfigured my ontological and epistemological approach to incarceration. I have also worked with psychiatric patients in social care homes between 2010 and 2019, grounding my analysis of care, confinement, and subjectivity across institutional settings. In parallel, I have contributed to multiple local and European research projects on LGBTQ issues, queer parenting, and prison studies.
Beyond academia, I have collaborated with queer and feminist anarchist groups in Cyprus, supporting struggles around migration, domestic workers’ rights, and the reunification of the island.
Alongside my academic work, I train as an amateur triathlete, using swimming, running, and cycling as practices through which I test and rework the limits of the body.
︎ Get in touch: ev412@bath.ac.uk
︎ CV Vasiliou