Christos Varvantakis has a background in social anthropology and sociology and is currently working at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research areas include: childhood, politics, activism, contested urban spaces as well as qualitative, visual and multimodal research methodologies. He co-directs the Childhood Publics research programme and is the co-editor of entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography, and the head of programming of Ethnofest, the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival.