Skanavis Constantina

Professor of Environmental Communication, Education and Training
Chair of the Departement of Public and Community Health

Constantina Skanavis is a Professor of Environmental Communication, Education and Training, Head of the Environmental Communication and Education Research Unit, Chair of the Department of Public and Community Health at the University of West Attica. She was the First Dean of the newly-founded School of Public Health of the University of West Attica (2019).

She graduated from Pierce College, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Microbiology and a Post-Graduate Degree in Environmental Microbiology from California State University of Long Beach, USA and a Doctor of Public Health with specialization in Environmental Health from UCLA (University of California Los Angeles), USA. She has been a Visiting Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ and New York University, NY.

For the first 14 years of her university career she held a Professor position at California State University of Los Angeles. From 2001-2019 she was a faculty member of the department of Environment of the University of the Aegean and Director of the Environmental Communication and Education Laboratory. Since 2019, she belongs as a Faculty Member, to the department of Public and Community Health of University of West Attica.

She has many years of independent teaching experience both at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the subjects of Environmental Communication, Teaching, Education and Health as well as in Health Sciences and Public Health. She is the director of the M.S. programs “Environmental Communication and Health Promotion” and “Environmental Health and Communication in General and Special Education”. Also, in the current period, she is scientifically responsible for four Lifelong Learning programs, implemented by Life Long Learning Center of University of West Attica, among them a Summer Academy of Environmental Educators. He has taught in numerous postgraduate programs in Greece and United States.

She has supervised a large number of undergraduate, postgraduate theses, PhD theses and Post Doc ones.

Constantina Skanavis has extensive experience in positions of responsibility and participation as a regular member of Institutional Committees (Life Long Learning, Equality Committee, Publications Committee) and Institutional Committees.

She researches environmental communication, the promotion of responsible environmental behavior, and the active participation of citizens in environmental decision-making as well as environmental education in formal, non-formal and informal application. She has extensive research experience with active participation in national and international environmental awareness studies and consortia as well as scientific responsibility of funded research and development programs.

Dr. Skanavis has published more than 200 Greek and foreign language papers, most of them in peer-reviewed scientific journals that are published in scientific databases. The Google Scholar database recorded more than 1300 citations to her work and h-index 19 and i-10 index 34. According to Research Gate, her works have been read by more than 125,000 readers. She has also been invited as a speaker at many conferences and has given hundreds of lectures in America, Europe, Asia and Africa (more than 300).

She has been honored with various distinctions, for her actions in environmental awareness, educational innovation, environmental protection as well as equality for vulnerable citizens. Professor Skanavis is the Co-Founder of Skyros Project, a multi-awarded, worldwide known, environmental awareness program for sustainable marine tourism.

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