Dr Maria Xenitidou
Research Fellow
Qualifications: BA, MA, MSc, PhD
Email: m.xenitidou@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 3762
Room no: 24 AD 03
Office hours
Monday to Friday 10-18.30
Further information
Biography
Maria Xenitidou has undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications focusing on International Relations, Politics and Research Methodology. Her primary research has focused on the disentanglement of events and discourses on the European-Islamic relationship, the exploration of European identity in Northern Greece and Greek national identity and immigration from the Balkans. Maria joined CRESS in October 2008 as a research fellow working an ESRC-funded project, "Innovations in social research methods: an international perspective", which is constructing a map of the 'hot spots' of research methods around the world. In April 2009 Maria joined an EU FP6 funded research project EMIL (Emergence In the Loop: Simulating the two way dynamics of norm innovation).
Research Interests
- Research Methods (Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods, Methodological Innovations, Transformative Research Practices)
- Identity Issues (Cultural, Ethnic and National Identities)
- Migration and Minorities (Social Impact, National and EU Policy Framework)
- Education Management
Publications
Highlights
- . (2011) 'National identity and otherness in Greek speakers' talk about immigration: Methodological and transdisciplinary reflections'. Migration Letters & The London Publishers Migration Letters, 8 (2), pp. 121-131.
Journal articles
- . (2012) 'Three Kinds of Normative Behaviour: Minimal Requirements for Feedback Models'. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 18 (1), pp. 113-127.
- . (2011) 'National identity and otherness in Greek speakers' talk about immigration: Methodological and transdisciplinary reflections'. Migration Letters & The London Publishers Migration Letters, 8 (2), pp. 121-131.
- . (2011) 'Understanding quality in science: A proposal and exploration'. Proceedings - 2010 4th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshop, SASOW 2010, , pp. 116-121.
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(2011) 'Construct validity of agent-based simulation of normative behaviour'. Common Ground Publishing The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 5 (4), pp. 67-80.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/7701/
Abstract
In this paper we assess the construct validity and theoretical emdeddedness of agent-based models of normative behaviour drawing on experimental social psychology. We contend that social psychology and agent-based modelling share the focus of ‘observing’ the processes and outcomes of the interaction of individual agents. The paper focuses on two from a taxonomy of agent-based models of normative behaviour. This enables the identification of the assumptions the models are built on and in turn, reflection on the assumptions themselves from a socio-psychological perspective.
- . (2011) 'Three kinds of normative behaviour: minimal requirements for feedback models'. Proceedings of the Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation,
- . (2010) 'Construct validity and theoretical embeddedness of agent-based models of normative behaviour'. Common Ground Publishing International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 5 (4), pp. 67-79.
