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Fernanda Odilla Vasconcellos De Figueiredo

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Department of Political and Social Sciences

Academic discipline: GSPS-02/A Political Science

Short Bio

Fernanda Odilla has a PhD in Social Science and Public Policy and a Masters in Criminology and Criminal Justice from King’s College London, a diploma in Crime and Public Safety from UFMG (Brazil), and a BA First Class Honours in Journalism from PUC Minas (Brazil).

She is part of the Horizon Europe-funded project RESPOND, which focuses on new approaches for combatting corruption on political decision-making. Within RESPOND, she leads a Work Package on Cross Border Corruption. She is also a research fellow for the ERC-funded project Bit-Act (Bottom-Up Initiatives and Anti-Corruption Technologies).

Her research interests are control of corruption, accountability, and new technologies in the context of anti-corruption, integrity and quality of government.

Prior to her academic career, she worked as a multimedia producer for the Brazilian desk at the BBC in London and as a reporter for daily newspapers in Brazil.

She is the author of The Digitalisation of Anti-Corruption in Brazil (Routledge) and the co-editor of Corruption and Anti-Corruption Upside Down: New Perspectives from the Global South (Palgrave).

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Contacts

E-mail:
fernanda.odilla@unibo.it

Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali
Strada Maggiore 45, Bologna - Go to map

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Please send an email to fernanda.odilla@unibo.it to schedule a meeting. Meetings can be held online or at Palazzo Hercolani.

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