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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).

Since 2024, she is part of the Horizon Europe-funded project RESPOND. Within RESPOND, she leads a Work Package on Cross Border Corruption. And since 2025 she is an associate fellow at the Research Center for Corruption Studies at the University of Geneva.

From 2020 to 2024, she was 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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