Roman Gerodimos is Professor of Global Current Affairs at Bournemouth University, UK. His research focuses on the challenges facing democracy and global security, and on drivers of civic and global engagement. He is the co/editor of The Media, Political Participation and Empowerment (2013), The Politics of Extreme Austerity: Greece in the Eurozone Crisis (2015), and Interdisciplinary Applications of Shame/Violence Theory: Breaking the Cycle (2022) and the author of Dispatches from the 21st Century (2020, in Greek). He has led research projects funded by NATO, the UK Department for International Development, the Independent Social Research Foundation, and the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also written, directed and produced four short films and a feature length documentary (Deterrence). He is currently working on his latest film, A Probable Outcome. He also has a weekly column in Athens Voice - one of Greece's leading weekly newspapers. Roman is the winner of the Political Studies Association's Arthur McDougall Prize for his research on youth civic engagement, and founder of the Greek Politics Specialist Group of the PSA.