Occasional self-employed collaborator at the Department of Agricultural anf Food Sciences (University of Bologna) for the H2020 project "AGRUMIG. Leaving something behind-Migration Governance and Agricultural and Rural Change in 'home' communities" (Coordinator: Peter Mollinga, School of Oriental and African Studies-SOAS, University of London; Head of the local research unit: Matteo Vittuari, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna).
Member of the Research Centre for Gender and Education Studies and of the Recearch center "Mobility Diversity social Inclusion" (Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna)
Member of the interdisciplinary research group “New Poverties” of the Emilia-Romagna Gramsci Foundation
Her main research interests are: migration-rural development nexus in post-soviet countries (Republic of Moldova); ethnic, gender and generational discriminations in the labour market; research ethics; gender, parenting and migrations; migration processes and female entrepreneurship (microcredit as a strategy for social inclusion); new poverties in contemporary societies.
Education
2011: PhD in “International Cooperation and Sustainable Development Policies”, UNIBO (Title of the thesis: "Local Economies, Global Worlds. For an Ethnography of Microcredit in Italy"; disciplinary field: Cultural Anthropology)
2009: Visiting Research Student at the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, Sussex University (Brighton, United Kingdom) 2008: MA in Education and Development, UNIBO (Title of the thesis: “David and Goliath. Global Economies and Microcredit. Practices and representations”; disciplinary field: Cultural Anthropology)
2007: Internship at the association Iris Afrik, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
2006: MA in Primary Education, UNIBO (Title of the thesis: “Between here and there. International Cooperation Intervention in kindergartens. EducAid Experience in Gaza Strip”; disciplinary field: Cultural Anthropology)
Research experiences
1/05/2021-present: collaboration to the H2020 research project "AGRUMIG. Leaving something behind-Migration Governance and Agricultural and Rural Change in ‘home’ communities" (Coordinator: Peter Mollinga, School of Oriental and African Studies-SOAS, University of London; Responsible of the local research unit: Matteo Vittuari, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Università di Bologna)
2016-31/01/2020: collaboration to the EU H2020 funded project "PLOTINA. Promoting gender balance and inclusion in research, innovation and training" (GA n. 666008; Coord: Tullia Gallina Toschi, UNIBO)
1/11/2017-13/12/2019: project manager of the Erasmus Plus European funded project "EUMentorSTEM. Creation of a EUropean e-platform of MENTORing and coaching for promoting migrant women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics" (Coord: Rosa Grimaldi). Co-coordinationa of the quanti-qualitative research activities on the training needs of the project beneficaries (migrant women with a STEM background and professional intercepting this category)
3/10/2016-28/02/2017: employee at the Centro Studi Progetto Donna e Diversity MGMT (PLOTINA’s partner); collaboration to the Gender Audit realized at the University of Bologna within the EU H2020 Project "PLOTINA. Promoting gender balance and inclusion in research, innovation and training" (GA n. 666008; Coord: Tullia Gallina Toschi, UNIBO)
2015-2016: collaboration to the interdisciplinary research promoted by the Emilia-Romagna Gramsci Foundation on the relationship between young generations in Bologna and job experience (2015-2016; Coord: Matilde Callari Galli)
2014-2016: Fellow Researcher in Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Education Studies (UNIBO); ethnographic research the social inclusion strategies preventing ethnic, gender and generational discriminations in the labour market carried out in Forlì and Bologna (Research Project: "Migrations, gender and the labour market: social inclusion strategies targeting migrant women and young people accessing the labour market")
2014-2015: collaboration to the training and mentoring activities of the EU funded Project “Di&Di. Enhancing Diversity and fighting against Discriminations” (2013-2015, UNIBO Unit Coord: UNIBO: Prof. Stefano Bianchini)
2012-2014: Fellow Researcher in Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Education Studies (UNIBO); ethnographic research carried out in the city of Ravenna, Italy (Research Project: “Migrations, Parenting and Gender Relationhips. Gender Practices and Representations in the Relationship between Migrant Parents and Children”)
2012-2014: collaboration to the European Comenius Project "Success at School through Volunteering - SAS" (LLP Programme; UNIBO Unit Coord: Giovanna Guerzoni; leading partner: University of Northampton, UK)
2011-2012: collaboration to the interdisciplinary research “Gender, Education Relationships and Childhood” (CSGE/ UNIBO - Emilia-Romagna Region)
2011-2012: collaboration to the interdisciplinary research “New Poverties in Bologna” (Coord: Matilde Callari Galli) promoted by the Emilia-Romagna Gramsci Foundation
2008-2011: ethnographic research in Northern Italy (Doctoral research on microcredit and migrant communities)
2008: collaboration to the “Grameen Italy Feasibility Study” (Microfinance International Observatory/UNIBO-Unidea Foundation-Grameen Trust)
2007-2008: collaboration to the interdisciplinary research on “Microcredit, Growth, Relationship, Opportunity”, UNIBO
Teaching activities
2007- present: collaboration to the teaching activities of the Cultural Anthropology group, Department of Education Studies, UNIBO
a.y. 2019/2020, 2020/2021: teacher and member of the teaching and organizing board for the I level Professional Master Programme in "International cooperation and inclusive education: new professional challenges"
a.y. 2020/2021: Adjunct Professor for the Training workshop on Teaching cultural anthropology
a.y 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022: Adjunct Professor for the Training Workshop in Etnhography (BA in Social and Cultural Education)
a.y. 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022: Adjunct Professor of Cultural Anthropology (AFORM)
a.y. 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021: Platform tutor for the Course in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnography of Social Exclusion (FAM)
a.y. 2017/2018: Adjunct Professor for the module of Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology and Sociology of Education Integrated Course, School of Psychology and Education, Single Cycle Degree in Primary Teacher Education)
a.y. 2015/2016, 2016/2017: teaching tutor for the Cultural Anthropology Course (Dr Federica Tarabusi), School of Psychology and Education, BA in Expert in Social and Cultural Education, Rimini Campus; teaching tutor for the Cultural Anthropology Course (Dr Giovanna Guerzoni), School of Psychology and Education, BA in Expert in Social and Cultural Education, Bologna Campus, UNIBO
a.y. 2016/2017: teacher and member of the Scientific Coordination and Organization Board of the Post Graduate Vocational Training programme in Gender Perspectives in Disciplinary Teaching
4-30/05/2015: tutoring and training activities within the EU funded Project “Di&Di. Enhancing Diversity and fighting against Discriminations” (2013-2015, UNIBO Unit Coord: UNIBO: Prof. Stefano Bianchini)
a.y. 2013-2014; 2014-2015: teaching tutor for the Cultural Anthropology Course (Dr Federica Tarabusi), School of Psychology and Education, BA in Expert in Social and Cultural Education, Rimini Campus, UNIBO
2013: co-teacher in the International Summer School “LEF” organized by the Utrecht Network (Motovun, Croatia)
a.y. 2012-2013: teacher in the International Summer School “Studies of Migration and Mobility in Europe – Mobile” (Sopot, Poland)
a.y. 2011-2012: teacher in th International Summer School "Studies od Migration andMobility in Europe" (Sopot, Poland)
a.y. 2011-2012: students' tutor for the Social Anthropology Course (Dr Ivo Giuseppe Pazzagli), MA in Education and Cooperation, Rimini Campus, UNIBO
a.y. 2006-2007: students' tutor for Cultural Anthropology Course, MA in Primary Teacher Education, UNIBO
Memberships
2014-present: member of the Italian Society for Applied Anthropology (SIAA)
2016-present: member and associate founder of the National Italian Professional Association of Anthropology (ANPIA)
2009, 2011, 2013, 2014: Member of the Italian Association for Ethno-Anthropological Studies (AISEA)
2017-present:Member of the Editorial Board of the Jouurnal "Educazione Interculturale"
