Students and Auditors of the First Summer School

Andronikos Kaliris

University of Athens, Greece

 

Andronikos Kaliris has been studying for his doctorate in Career Guidance and Counselling for 2 years already at the Faculty of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology, University of Athens. He also hold a Master’s degree in Career Counselling, a specialisation diploma in Career Guidance tests and questionnaires and a Bachelor of Arts in Theology. He has also been much interested in Statistics and Psychometrics which he considers as important tools that support and advance his research. So, in 2013 he completed a Diploma in Descriptive Statistics from the University of California, at Berkeley, USA (distance learning via EdX). He has been working as teacher and educational - career counselor at University of Athens, a private school, a foreign languages institute and a counselling office. Furthermore, he is an associate of the Center of Research and Assessment in Career Counselling. So far, he has presented several papers in various conferences and he has 5 publications in peer-reviewed journals in cooperation with career specialists and Professors. His research interests mainly focus on counseling self-efficacy, counselor training, the concept of career, career skills development as well as contributions of postmodern approaches (e.g. Narrative Career Counselling, Chaos Theory of Careers, Life Design, Happenstance Learning Theory etc.) to career development. Recently he has been taking an interest in Mixed Methods Research. In his free time, he enjoys listening to house and mainstream music, watching films, hanging around with friends and surfing the internet.