Gender, Difference and Social Construction
His research examines, from an intersectional perspective, the processes through which social differences and categories contribute to the construction of subjectivities, belonging, and differential recognition. A central area of his work concerns gender and masculinities in educational and care settings, with particular attention to the norms that shape practices, relationships, and possibilities for belonging within educational spaces.
Youth, Discourse and Participation
A second area of research focuses on the discursive construction of youth and otherness in media and public discourse, with particular attention to processes of categorisation and racialisation. This perspective also extends to digital environments and artificial intelligence systems, examining how social categories and differences are reproduced or reconfigured through discursive practices and processes of classification.
His research on youth also addresses participation in educational and community settings, focusing on the recognition of young people's voice and agency and their capacity to meaningfully influence decision-making processes.
Epistemological and Methodological Positioning
His research is primarily grounded in a qualitative, critical, and feminist perspective, approaching knowledge production as a situated and relational process. Particular attention is paid to reflexivity, researcher positionality, and the power relations that shape the research process.
Methodologically, his work primarily draws on reflexive thematic analysis, critical discourse analysis, multimodal analysis, and participatory action research, favouring practices oriented towards the co-construction of knowledge and attentive to the ethical and political implications of methodological choices.
