Paola Govoni

Associate Professor

Department of Philosophy

Academic discipline: PHIL-02/B History of Science and Technology

Short Bio

Paola Govoni is an Associate Professor (qualified for Full Professorship, 2017), whose research spans the intersections of history, women’s and gender studies, and science studies (or Science, Technology, and Society Studies, STS). Her courses—welcoming students from all departments—engage with a range of topics, including: hybrid approaches (natural ⇔ social sciences) to studying the interactions between science and society, with a particular emphasis on gender and environmental issues; the evolving relationships between humans, other species, and technologies from historical and evolutionary perspectives; the history, forms, and functions of science communication and public engagement; the non-linear dynamics of women’s participation in scientific education and careers from the 18th century to the present; (auto)biographical approaches in the history of science; and the application of women’s, gender, and STS studies within scientific, educational, and historiographical-sociological frameworks.

Academia edu

Go to the Curriculum vitae

Contacts

E-mail:: p.govoni@unibo.it
Tel:: +39 051 20 9 8341

Other contacts

Tel:: +39 051 20 9 1629
Web:: Go to personal web site

Dipartimento di Filosofia
Via Zamboni 38, Bologna - Go to map

Online Resources

ORCID

Office hours

By appointment (p.govoni@unibo.it ), office hours are held every week, via Teams or in person (Department of Philosophy, 2A floor, mezzanine).

To ensure thoughtful and sustainable supervision, students are kindly asked to get in touch well in advance - approximately one year and half before the intended graduation session for Master’s degrees, and one year for Bachelor’s degrees - specifying in their email both the planned graduation session and their degree programme.

If you write to me asking me to supervise your thesis, I will send you detailed guidelines. I would like to make one requirement clear from the outset: starting with the autumn 2026 session, all students writing their thesis under my supervision will be required to keep a research diary.

For each research session, you will record the date, the sources consulted and read, the keywords used, the decisions made, and any use of AI. The guidelines will provide full details, and I will also send you a template to use.

You will be expected to send me the updated research diary together with each new chapter. I consider the research diary an integral part of the thesis and will take it into account substantially in my assessment.

Thank you for your understanding.