Dr Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiros is a policy researcher and consultant working across academia, public policy, and practice. His work focuses on the institutional, social, and spatial conditions that shape more equitable, participatory, and socially sustainable places.
Dimitrios is an Affiliated Researcher at the Bennett School for Public Policy, where his work has focused on social and cultural infrastructure, regional inequality, place-based policy, and community wellbeing. His research at the Bennett contributed to the development of a new framework for understanding and measuring social and cultural infrastructure, with the aim of providing policymakers with more grounded and actionable insights into the assets, relationships, and institutions that support everyday life in places.
Dimitrios is currently based at The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, and undertakes independent research and advisory work with policy, research, and civil society partners. Across these roles, he leads and contributes to projects on regional inequality and participatory democracy, while his consultancy work extends to wider built environment and place-based strategy.
A growing strand of Dimitrios’ work examines men’s mental health and wellbeing through the lens of social infrastructure. In his work with the Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys, he is mapping community-based programmes designed to support boys and men and explores how community-led non-clinical initiatives help men build trust, routine, purpose, and connection.
Dimitrios has taught and lectured on regional development, planning theory and practice, urban design, and socio-economic sustainability at UCL and the University of Oxford. He is also a member of Territoire Europe’s Collège Solidaire and has contributed to international policy and professional networks concerned with planning, participation, capacity building, and place-based development.
