Professor Roman Gerodimos
Small Group Project 2019
Using the Shame/Violence model to address the root causes of extremism
This project will bring together an international team of leading researchers to develop the application of Gilligan’s shame/violence framework across a range of disciplines with a view to addressing pressing challenges facing liberal democracies, such as radicalisation and extremism, multiculturalism and urban tensions. The project focuses on Greece as a case study of a society with a long history of political violence and aggression, manifested across a range of contexts (familial, educational, institutional, urban, political). The aims of the project are to (a) set up a collaborative network of experts on shame/violence, (b) to build interdisciplinary capacity and a common vocabulary that will address these challenges in an applied way, (c) to design innovative research and pilot intervention methodologies, and (d) to start work on collaborative papers and a grant application that will consolidate the network’s activity beyond the lifetime of the residential.
More informationResearch outcomes
Interdisciplinary Applications of Shame/Violence Theory. Springer International Publishing.
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Biography
Roman's background is in political science and international studies. He holds an MSc in European Politics & Policy (LSE) and a PhD in Political Communication (Bournemouth). He is the winner of the Arthur McDougall Prize awarded by the Political Studies Association for his research on online youth civic engagement.
Roman is an interdisciplinary thinker, educator, writer and filmmaker whose work spans politics, sociology, international relations, psychology, urban and communication studies, focusing on the ways in which 21st century citizens engage with the self, with the urban landscape, with others around them, and with the world at large.
He has written, directed and produced several short and documentary films: At the Edge of the Present (2015), A Certain Type of Freedom (2015), Essence (2018), which is based on an essay by Paul Badura-Skoda, Deterrence (2020), and We’ll Meet Again (2021). He is now working on his next feature film, Presence, which is in development.
Roman's current research focuses on psychosocial dynamics of shame, violence and reconciliation, including collaborations with the Freud Museum London, the Katakouzenos House Museum in Athens and the Faction theatrical ensemble. Roman's latest book is Interdisciplinary Applications of Shame/Violence Theory: Breaking the Cycle (Palgrave Macmillan 2022) - a major edited volume following a research project funded by the ISRF, named one of the top 10 books of 2022 by Confer.
Biographical details correct as of 30.04.26