Dr. Paraskevi Chatzipanagiotou is an Assistant Professor of Educational Management with the European University of Cyprus (Department of Education). She studied Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and got her master and doctoral degree from the same University. She has worked at the University of Macedonia and Thessally from 2003-2006 as Scientific Collaborator of Educational Administration. Since 2004 has been working as Part Time Academic Staff with the Hellenic Open University and since 2008 with the Open University of Cyprus (course module School Management, master degree of Educational Studies). She has also evaluated a lot of researched-based projects and participates as trainer in further education programs for school staff and principals.
The research interests of Paraskevi Chatzipanagiotou are mainly focused on the fields of school management, school leadership, human resource management, innovation management, school improvement and TQM. Over the last ten years she has published two books and authored individually or with others articles in journals and chapters in collective volumes on aspects of management and leadership issues.