Contact details

Email: Maria dot Gavris at warwick dot ac dot uk

Tel.: TBC

Room: R3.15 (Ramphal Building)

Office hours: Term 1: 11-12 on Monday and 4-5 pm on Tuesday. Term 2: 11-12 on Thursday and 1-2 pm on Friday. Term 3: 3-4 pm on Tuesday and 12-1 on Thursday. Please email me in advance to book a meeting.

Assistant Professor

Biography

I am a political economist, with a particular interest in the macroeconomic and governance aspects of sustainable development. I hold a Joint Honours undergraduate degree in Economics and Politics and a PhD in Economics (both from the University of Leeds). Prior to joining the School for Cross-Faculty Studies in September 2020, I worked as a Research Fellow in the Industrial Relations Research Unit at Warwick Business School. Before that, I was a Research Associate at the Centre for Decent Work at the University of Sheffield.

Teaching

GD104 Economic Principles of Global Sustainable Development

GD107: Global Sustainable Development Project

GD216: Good Governance and Sustainable Development 

GD306: Achieving Sustainability: Potentials and Barriers 

I have extensive experience in designing and delivering interdisciplinary teaching across the social sciences, covering a variety of topics in sustainable development: governance for sustainable development; macroeconomics for development; the role of institutions in development; global governance; politics and policies in the neoliberal era; the (un)sustainability of international monetary systems.

I was nominated for the Warwick Award for Personal Tutoring Excellence (WAPTE) in 2021 and 2023, and for the WATE Faculty Award in 2023.

Research

My main research interests are in: good governance as a necessary pillar of sustainable development; macroeconomics and sustainable development; labour governance and decent work as a UN sustainable development goal; the sustainability of international monetary systems; theories of hegemony and power.

My doctoral research was an interdisciplinary case study, which combined perspectives in comparative and international political economy (models of capitalism, theories of hegemony), modern history and employment relations to analyse the multifaceted power relations at the heart of the EU which currently inhibit good governance and call into question the sustainability of the European Economic and Monetary Union. An important aspect of my PhD concerned the rise in inequality and in-work poverty in the EU as a consequence of the supranational focus on export-led growth. This sparked my interest in labour governance and decent work, a theme I later explored in my research posts at Sheffield and Warwick Business School, working across disciplines, and in collaboration with the ILO's Governance and Tripartism Department. In my current research, I am exploring questions around what constitutes good governance and what macroeconomics for sustainability would look like.

Recent publications

Journal articles

• Dymski, G., Gavris, M. and Huaccha, G. (2023), ‘Viewing the impact of Brexit on Britain’s financial centre through an historical lens: Can there be a third reinvention of the City of London?’. Advances in Economic Geography, online before print: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/zfw-2021-0041/html
• Gavris, M. (2021), ‘Revisiting the fallacies in Hegemonic Stability Theory in light of the 2007-2008 crisis: the theory’s hollow conceptualization of hegemony’. Review of International Political Economy, vol. 28(3), pp. 739-60.
• Gavris, M. and Heyes, J. (2021), 'Varieties of labour administration in Europe and the consequences of the Great Recession’. Economic and Industrial Democracy, vol. 42(4), pp. 1282-1304.
• Bailey, D., Coffey, D., Gavris, M., Thornley, C. (2019) ‘Industrial policy, place and democracy’. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 12(3), pp. 327-45.

Book chapters

• Heyes, J., Rychly, L., Gavris, M., and Luz Vega, M. (2021) Introduction to The Governance of Labour Administration, in Heyes, J. and L. Rychly (eds.), The Governance of Labour Administration, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar and Geneva: ILO

Podcasts

• WICID Methods Lab Podcast: Policy AnalysisLink opens in a new window (with Romain Chenet and Marco Haenssgen).