Vasileia Digidiki is a social and forensic psychologist and a Harvard University Instructor. She earned her PhD in social psychology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds two master’s degrees, one in forensic psychology and one in social psychology. Digidiki completed her post-doc on child protection challenges in humanitarian crises at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Vasileia Digidiki
She currently leads the Center’s research on refugee and migrant child protection in the Mediterranean Basin, with a special focus on the sexual exploitation of refugee and migrant children. She has worked extensively on sex trafficking, victim and client blaming and its impact on re-victimization, and social attitudes towards the phenomenon. In collaboration with Fletcher School, in Tufts University, she also conducts research on religion identity and its impact on social integration.