Nicola De Luigi has been associate professor of Sociology at the University of Bologna since 2014. In the last decade, his research activities have focused on two main fields: youth studies and social policy. In particular, his research activities have addressed the following issues: gender inequalities in the transition from education to the labour market, educational processes and labour market changes, young people and gambling, youth politics and participation in urban spaces. He is currently involved in several research projects concerning young people’s participation in European urban spaces (PARTISPACE – Horizon 2020), adolescent gambling behaviour and attitudes (Young Millennials Monitor) and educational and labour market policies in relation to varieties of capitalism (Prin 2015). He is the author of many papers and works with research institutes and networks at both national and international levels.
Academic
Teaching
Academic year 2011-12
– current day: head of the course Social and Criminological
Research Methodology.
Academic year
2013-14: head of the Quantitative Methodology/Methods Laboratory in
Social Research.
Courses in Sociology,
Social Policy and Sociology of Risk in different
Universities:
academic year
2002-2003 - 2003-2004: module of Sociology at the Faculty of
Political Science “R. Ruffilli” - University of Bologna;
academic year
2004-2005: head of the course of Sociology at the Faculty of
Psychology – University of Florence;
academic year 2004-05
- 2008-2009: module of Social Policy at the
Faculty of Political Science “R. Ruffilli” - University of Bologna
(Master's degree course);
academic year 2008-09 - 2010-11:
course of Sociology at
the Faculty of Psychology – University of Bologna;
academic year 2009-10 - 2010-11:
course of Sociology of risk at the Faculty of
Political Science “R. Ruffilli” - University of Bologna (Master's
degree course).
Editorial
Boards and Scientific collaborations
2001 – current day:
member of Italian Sociological Association (AIS)
2006 – current day: member
of Scientific Committee Rencontres Jeunes & Sociétés en
Europe et autour de la Méditerranée (http://jeunes-et-societes.cereq.fr/).
2004 – current day:
member of Scientific Committee Study Centre on “Labour policies and
local society” - Province of Rimini (http://www.riminimpiego.it/).
2007 – current day:
member of editorial staff of the journal Autonomie locali e
servizi sociali (il Mulino), a triannual peer-reviewed academic
journal - (http://www.mulino.it/edizioni/riviste/).
2012 – current day:
member of Scientific Committee of the journal Italian Sociological
Review, a triannual
peer-reviewed
online academic journal - (http://www.italiansociologicalreview.org/).
Research
interests
Main focus of research:
- the relationship between youth, education and the
labour market and the gender differences in transition to
adulthood, with a focus on work family reconciliation
issues;
- the analysis of the
precariousness in social contexts connected with transformations in
employment trends, with specific insight into social
exclusion/inclusion;
- the topic of
governance in the field of local social policy and local productive
systems;
- the integration process of
migrants in Italian local
contexts.
Research Activities (most recent)
2005 - 2007: member of the University of Bologna
research group in the project Governance of local
development, funded by the Italian Ministry of University under
the National Interest Research Program (PRIN).
October 2007 - June 2009: research project
coordinator on How much does gender count in
student college life, funded by University of San Marino.
2008 - 2012: coordinator of a study on
Come agisce un territorio in
tempo di crisi economica, a longitudinal research project
funded by the Province of Rimini - Study Center on “Labour policies
and local society”, that aims to investigate how young people and
adults are coping with the economic downturn.
2008 - 2011: member
of Forlì campus research group in the project coordinated by Ismu
Foundation (an autonomous and independent organization promoting
studies, research and projects on multi-ethnic and multi-cultural
society) on Immigrant
integration in Italian local contexts.
2009 - 2011: member
of the Research group on Living conditions, lifestyle and well-being
expectations, project funded by the
Province of Forlì-Cesena and Local Observatory on
Welfare.
2010 - 2013: member of the University of Bologna
Research group in Goete -
Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe, project
funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme for a
research project that aims to investigate young people's
educational trajectories in Finland, France, Germany, Italy,
Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia and the UK.
2011 – current day: member of the University of
Bologna interdisciplinary Research group, Italian Focal Points (in
partnership with Cospe) in the FRANET, the
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)'s
multidisciplinary research network. The aim of this network is to
provide the Agency with objective, reliable and comparable
socio-legal data on fundamental rights issues to facilitate the
FRA's comparative analyses at EU level.
2013 – current day:
member of the University of Bologna research group involved in the
research project “Gambling and families choices. A socio-economical
analytical framework” project funded by University of Bologna (Farb
Programm).
