Aliki Koutlou

Aliki Koutlou is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Politics Department at the University of Manchester (since October 2023). Her research focuses on utilities-based indebtedness, particularly energy debt, examining its intersections with social reproduction crises, gendered/classed dimensions, and semi-peripheral contexts like Southern Europe. She holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Manchester (2022) and previously served as a Lecturer (T&S) in Politics (2022-2023). Her work bridges feminist political economy, everyday political economy, and feminist geography, with a focus on austerity’s legacy in Greece.

Teaching: Taught undergraduate modules like POLI10502 (Politics of the Global Economy) and POLI31002 (Ideologies of Global Capitalism), plus postgraduate courses such as POEC61011 (Theoretical Approaches to Political Economy). Contributions to UN SDGs include work on poverty reduction and equitable resource access.

Research Projects: Collaborated on initiatives including “Access to Health” (led by Dr. Temenos) and “SheTrades: Gendering Global Trade Governance” (with Drs. Hannah, Roberts, and Trommer). Explores lived experiences of debt through qualitative frameworks, emphasizing structural power dynamics and grassroots responses to neoliberal crises.