Dr. Arianna Tassinari is Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Economic and Labour Sociology at the University of Bologna, Italy, where she is also a member of the Executive Committee of the departmental research centre CONNECT – Transnational Connections and Global Governance. She specialises in European comparative political economy, with a particular focus on labour market policy, industrial relations, and growth models. Her research and teaching explore how European growth models adjust to crises and transformations, and the role of social partners in processes of socio-economic governance and reform.
Arianna obtained her PhD in Industrial Relations from the University of Warwick (UK) in December 2019. She then held positions as a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence (2019/2020) and as Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne (2020-2022).
Over the course of her career, she has contributed to several international comparative research projects on industrial relations, labour markets, and public policy in the EU, funded by institutions such as DG Employment, CEDEFOP, Eurofound, the ILO, UniEuropa, and the ETUI. Since 2023, Arianna has been co-Principal Investigator of the European Commission-funded project MAINSOC (Managing the Inflation Crisis through Social Dialogue), which examines the role of social dialogue in shaping inflation management responses across six European countries in the wake of the 2021–2023 inflation crisis.
Her research has been published in leading journals including Socio-Economic Review, Industrial Relations, Politics & Society, Competition & Change, European Journal of Political Research, European Journal of Industrial Relations, and Work, Employment and Society.
She serves on the editorial board of Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research and of Competition & Change. She has also been a member of the Executive Council of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) since 2022, where she has led the Network Oversight Committee and actively supported initiatives promoting interdisciplinarity, pluralism, and the advancement of gender and racial equity within the field of political economy. She was the founder of the Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy and coordinated its first edition in 2023.
Within Unibo's Department of Social and Political Sciences, Arianna serves as member of the Working Group for Outgoing placement and stakeholder relationships, and as coordinator of internships for the Master's degree program in Politica, Amministrazione e Organizzazione (PAO).
