She has taught courses on urban development, urban sociology, community development and cultural heritage in Birkbeck College (UK), University of Thessaly (Greece) and National Technical University of Athens (Greece). Her recent research focuses on how discourses stigmatise people and places and influence policies (focusing on the ‘ghettoisation’ discourse concerning the city of Athens), on the governance of urban crisis and the tactics involved in it and on socio-spatial inequalities in European cities.