Alex Brailas (PhD) @ Complexity, Psychology & Research Methodology

practice drives theory

Publications

Having to make them comprehensible to another helps make them comprehensible to us
 - M.Solomon, ‎D.J.Siegel

Published work

Brailas, A. (2025). The Appreciative Qualitative Interview: A Research Method for Empowering People. Methodology. European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. [link]

Brailas, A., & Katerelos, I. (2025). Qualitative Inquiry in the era of artificial intelligence: Why and how to keep the practice human? Homo Virtualis, 8(2), 1–24. [link]

Brailas, A. (2025). Artificial Intelligence in Qualitative Research: Beyond Outsourcing Data Analysis to the Machine. Psychology International, 7(3), 78. [link]

Brailas, A. (2025). Replication Crisis in Psychology, Second-Order Cybernetics, and Transactional Causality: From Experimental Psychology to Applied Psychological Practice. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 59(1), 14. [link]

Brailas, A. (2024). Review of Dan McQuillan Resisting AI: An Anti- Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence. Postdigital Science and Education, 6(4), 1366–1372. [link]

Brailas, A. (2024). Postdigital Duoethnography: An Inquiry into Human-Artificial Intelligence Synergies. Postdigital Science and Education. [link]

Brailas, A., & Papachristopoulos, K. (2023). Systems thinking, rhizomes, and community-based qualitative research: An introduction to Nomadic Thematic Analysis.  In E. Tseliou, C. Demuth, E. Georgaca, & B. Gough (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Psychological Research. Routledge. link

Brailas, A., & Sotiropoulou, C. (2023). Relational, Appreciative, and Process-oriented Digital Storytelling: A Duoethnography. Human Arenas. PDF

Brailas, A. (2023). Rhizomes, nomads, and complexity: A new relational pedagogy for the era of networks, social media and artificial intelligence. In M. S. Khine (Ed.), New Directions in Rhizomatic Learning: From Postructural Thinking to Nomadic Pedagogy. Routledge. PDF

Brailas, A., Tragou, E., & Papachristopoulos, K. (2023). Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis and Coding with QualCoder. American Journal of Qualitative Research, 7(3), 19-31. PDF

Brailas, A. (2022). Petros Polychronis and the epistemology of life. Metalogos Systemic Therapy Journal, 41, 1-21. PDF

Brailas, A. (2021). Digital storytelling and the narrative turn in psychology: Creating spaces for collective empowerment. PDF

Brailas, A. (2020). Using Drawings in Qualitative Interviews: An Introduction to the Practice. The Qualitative Report, 25(12), 4447-4460. PDF

Brailas, A. (2020). A Systems Thinking Approach to Reflective Practice in Blogs: Implications on Social-Emotional Learning and Resilience Building. Eighth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality, 304–308. Salamanca Spain: ACM. PDF

Brailas, A. (2020). Rhizomatic Learning in Action: A Virtual Exposition for Demonstrating Learning Rhizomes. Eighth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality, 309–314. Salamanca Spain: ACM. PDF

Brailas, A., Avani, S., Gkini, C., Deilogkou, M., Dimitriadis, G., Thravalou, E., Fouka, E., & Koskinas, K. (2019). Group work, reflective practice and blogging in academic teaching: Developing peer learning networks. PDF

Brailas, A. (2019). Psychotherapy in the era of artificial intelligence: Therapist Panoptes. Homo Virtualis, 2(1), 68-78. PDF

Brailas, A., Koskinas, K., & Alexias, G. (2017). Teaching to emerge: Toward a bottom-up pedagogy. Cogent Education, 4(1), 1377506. PDF

Brailas, A., Avani, S., Gkini, C., Deilogkou, M., Koskinas, K., & Alexias, G. (2017). Experiential Learning in Action: A Collaborative Inquiry. The Qualitative Report, 22(1), 271-288. PDF

Brailas, A. (2017). Digital storytelling in the classroom: How to tell students to tell a story. Int. J. of Teaching and Case Studies, 8(1), 16-28. PDF
 

Brailas, A., Alexias, G., & Koskinas, K. (2017). Dove YouTube campaign
“The pressure on young girls and women to fit an artificial body ideal.” A sequential analysis. In M. Kontopodis, C. Varvantakis, & C. Wulf (Eds.), Global Youth in Digital Trajectories. London: Routledge.PDF

Brailas, A., Koskinas, K., & Alexias, G. (2016). Design and implementation of a web-based system to support collective reflective practice. International Journal of Designs for Learning, 7(3), 95–104. PDF

Brailas, A., Koskinas, K., Dafermos, M., & Alexias, G. (2015). Wikipedia in Education: Acculturation and learning in virtual communities. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 7, 59–70. PDF  

Gkini, C., & Brailas, A. (2015). Visualizations of personal social networks on Facebook and community structure: an exploratory study. European Journal of Social Behaviour, 2(1), 21-30. PDF

Brailas, A., Nika, S. (2015). Groupwork and participatory media. European Journal of Social Behaviour, 2(1),12-20.  PDF

Brailas, A., Tsekeris, C. (2014). Social behaviour in the internet era: Cyborgs, adolescents and education. European Journal of Social Behaviour, 1(1), 1-4. PDF

Brailas, A. (2014). Networked Grounded Theory. The Qualitative Report, 19(How To Art. 3), 1-16. PDF


Brailas, A. (2011). Using Wikipedia in a Course Assignment: Implications for Wikipedia Literacy in Higher and Secondary Education. In S. Sotiriou & A. Szucs (Eds.), Never Waste a Crisis! Inclusive Excellence, Innovative Technologies and Transformed Schools as Autonomous Learning Organisations (pp. 116–121). Athens, Greece: European Distance and E-Learning Network. PDF


Published work in Greek

Μπράιλας, Α., Παπαχριστόπουλος, Κ., & Τράγου, Ε. (2023). Εισαγωγή στην ποιοτική ανάλυση δεδομένων με το λογισμικό Taguette: Ζητήματα εγκυρότητας και αξιοπιστίας στην ποιοτική έρευνα. Open Education, 19(1), 29-54. PDF

Μπράιλας, Α., Αβάνη, Σ. Μ., Γκίνη, Χ., Δεϊλόγκου, Μ. Α., Δημητριάδης, Γ., Θραβάλου, Ε., Φούκα, Ε., & Κοσκινάς, Κ. (2020). Διεργασία ομάδας, αναστοχαστική πρακτική και ιστολόγια στην πανεπιστημιακή εκπαίδευση: αναπτύσσοντας δίκτυα μάθησης ομοτίμων. Εκπαίδευση Ενηλίκων, 46, 26-36. PDF

Ντέκα, Ε., & Μπράιλας, Α. (2018). Το σχολείο που ονειρεύομαι: Μια διερεύνηση των αντιλήψεων των εκπαιδευτικών μέσα από την τέχνη. Εκπαίδευση & Επιστήμες, 1, 39–51. PDF

Vakali, E., & Brailas, A. (2018). "Me and my students' smartphones in the classroom": A case study using arts-based methods. Homo Virtualis ,1(1), 35-52. PDF


Books (in Greek)
Η Κουλτούρα του Διαδικτύου (2015) (Επιμέλεια). Αθήνα: Εργαστήριο Δυνητικής Πραγματικότητας, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο.
LeanPub.

Πολύπλοκα Συστήματα και Χάος. Εφαρμογές στην Ψυχολογία και την Εκπαίδευση (2015).
Αθήνα:Εκδόσεις Γρηγόρη.

PhD Thesis (in Greek):
Μπράϊλας, Α. Β. (2013). Η Δυνητική Μαθησιακή Κοινότητα: Κοινωνιο-Ψυχολογικές, Παιδαγωγικές και Τεχνολογικές Παράμετροι (Διδακτορική Διατριβή). Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο, Αθήνα. PDF


Posters - Presentations

Group Work in Education: Emergence, Coevolution and Learning (2016). Available at SSRN: web, PDF

Good Qualitative Research in Cyberspace (2015). web, PDF

Πολύπλοκα Συστήματα & Οργανισμοί Μάθησης (2015). web