[5] Other research work includes the Cyprus conflict, Cypriot foreign and defence policy and EU integration politics.
In 2018, Demetrios sought the UCP nomination in Calgary-Bow and faced off against many challengers including Lisa Davis, who retained Nicolaides as her campaign manager during her 2017 election as a school trustee to the Calgary Board of Education in 2017.
[13] Nicolaides moved forward with a new implantation timeline that would see post-secondary institutions sign a one-year Investment Management Agreement, with 5% of funding at risk against a single metric on work-integrated learning.
[21] The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused many of Alberta's post-secondary institutions to move to on-learning which continued throughout the majority of the 2020/21 academic year.
The grant was used to address technology and WiFi access, support online programming development and delivery ad assists with improve cleaning protocols.
[24] In March 2021, citing increasing vaccination rates, Nicolaides issued a statement to post-secondary institutions to prepare to return to in-person learning for the upcoming 2021/22 Fall academic semester.
On February 8, 2022, Premier Jason Kenney announced that the proof-of-vaccination program would end at midnight and other COVID-19 measures would be removed by March 1, 2022.
[28] In February 2018, Advanced Education Minister Marlin Schmidt announced that Grande Prairie Regional College would transition to a university in order to offer degrees in the local community.
[30] However, in 2021, Nicolaides noted that the two institutions may not transitions to universities as planned as a larger review of Alberta's post-secondary system was underway.