Panos is a sociologist currently employed as Lecturer in Critical Social Science at the Centre for Public Policy Research in the School of Education, Communication and Society.

In May 2025, his first monograph, The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialisation of Precarity was published through Polity Press. Drawing on a covert ethnography of six precarious workplaces in Glasgow, interviews with migrant workers, as well as years of organising experience, the book explores how precarious conditions shape workers' ideas of themselves and their capacities for resistance.

Theodoropoulos's main argument is that precarity socialises workers towards an individualist, survival-oriented mindset that erodes the formation of solidarities and reinforces its own neoliberal logics. Against this backdrop, he explores the formation of social centres as potential nodes of sustained organising.

Theodoropoulos is more generally interested in the formation of political subjectivities; he is interested in exploring what prevents the most oppressed segments of society from organising themselves, as well as in the forms that this organisation may assume. He has also done extensive work on migration, precarity, and trade union struggles. One theme that emerged from his research is the connection between hegemonic masculinity and ideas of neoliberal resilience, something that he explored in a recent publication with the journal Work, Employment and Society.

Outside of academia, he is an editor, author, and founding member of the Interregnum collective, an autonomous platform that aims to make critical theory relevant and accessible. He is also actively involved with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

Research interests

• Capitalism
• Neoliberalism
• Precarity
• Migration
• Subjectivity
• Hegemony
• Anarchism
• Marxism
• Trade unions

Find out more about Panos' research through his PURE Research profile.

Teaching

In 2025/26, Panos will be leading or co-leading the following modules on the BA Social Sciences:

• Understanding the Social World
• Civil and Political Rights
• Dissertation

Supervision

Panos would welcome supervising any student that fits with the above research interests. He would be particularly interested in projects that cover any, or combinations of, the following areas:

• Migration
• Neoliberalism
• Subjectivity
• Anarchism
• Ethnography and/or covert ethnography
• Trade union struggles
• Social centres
• Class consciousness and/or hegemony

Social media

You can find Panos on Bluesky.