Danai Konstantinidou joined OSE as a Researcher in October 2025. Her research focuses on social protection, poverty, welfare states, and comparative social policy and policy evaluation, with deep expertise in both qualitative and quantitative methods. She is in the final stage of her PhD in Social Policy at the University of York, funded by the ESRC White Rose Scholarship, where she examines the impact of social transfers on income poverty and deprivation in EU member states. Danai has worked as an external collaborator at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) in Athens (Greece), where she participated in various research projects and served as the Expert for Greece in the European Social Policy Analysis Network (ESPAN).
40 years of independent expertise in European social policy