Prof. Stefanos Mantzoukas
Professor in Qualitative Research & Reflective Based Nursing Praxis
Stefanos is a Professor in the Department of Nursing at the University of Ioannina (Greece). He is also the Director of the Research Lab. Integrated Care, Health & Well-being, Deputy Director for the MSc in Adult Nursing Care and Head of Department for the Nursing Department.
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Stefanos is a Registered Nurse, holds a BSc in Nursing from the TEI of Epirus (Greece) and a BSc in Health Studies from Thames Valley University (UK). Stefanos completed his master and doctoral studies at the University of Portsmouth (UK). In 2003 he moved into higher education and has held teaching positions at Thames Valley University, the University of Liverpool and the University of Derby in the UK, and also taught at the University of Thessaly in Greece, was Visiting Professor at the University of Primorska (Slovenia) and was an Erasmus exchange lecturer in several European Universities.
Stefanos is co-Editor-in-Chief for the journal Nursing Philosophy and a Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Sciences. He, also, sits on the Editorial Board for the journal of Reflective Practice and the Greek nursing journal Nosileytiki, and on the International Editorial Board for the Journal of Advanced Nursing and the International Scientific Advisory Panel for the RCN International Nursing Research Conference.
Professional Bio
Stefanos' work focuses on empowering individuals to create, achieve and maintain a felt sense of health and well-being by promoting personhood, lifestyle changes and contextual modifications based on evidence, culture awareness, research inquisitiveness and transformational leadership.
Stefanos defines health in "positive" terms by focusing on individuals' potentials to live well and achieve a sense of well-being rather than defining health by the absence of disease (health should not be defined by what is absent but what ought to be present). Empowering individuals to come to terms (or feel at home) with their current situation and make plans for their future are central elements in achieving a felt sense of health. Furthermore, the context in which individuals live is essential in defining healthy living and healthy lifestyles. Any lifestyle alterations unavoidably include empowering the individual to achieve environmental alterations and contextual modifications. Lastly, promoting the dignity of personhood and empowering the individual to understand, narrate and explain their lived reality can assist in (re)creating individual held perceptions and narratives, further promoting sentiments of well-being.
Central to Stefanos' work is the notion of empowerment, personal growth and individual development. Stefanos work lately has focused on empowering older individuals to live well, promote their sense of well-being and maintain or develop feelings of living a healthy life. The philosophical tradition that inspires Stefanos’ work is the pragmatist and neo-pragmatist philosophies, where knowledge and understanding of the human condition and human care embrace an antirepresentationalist and ironist suspicious best viewed and translated in daily practice in terms of what is useful, practical and successfully applicable.
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Contact Dr Stefanos Mantzoukas to discuss their published work, teaching, collaboration opportunities or for any other inquiries.
4th kilometer National Highway Str. Ioannina-Athens
45500, Ioannina, GREECE
(0030) 26510 50787