Full Professor of Sociology at the School of
Political Sciences of the University of Bologna. He is President of the School of Political Sciences of the University of Bologna and Vice-President for the Forlì Campus of the same School. He is member and Vice-Director of the Department of
Sociology and Business Law.
Academic Career
He holds a degree in Political Science with special focus on
social politics at the University of Bologna.
In 1983, he wins a research award at the University of Bologna
and continues his work as a researcher until 31st of October
1992.
Between the 1st of February 1992 and the 31st October 1995 he
works at the University of Padova as an Associate Professor of
Sociology in the Faculty of Political Science.
From the 1st of November 1995 he is Associate Professor of
Sociology at the Faculty of Political Science "Roberto Ruffilli"
Forlì Campus at the University of Bologna.
From the 1st of November 2000 to the 31st of October 2003 he is
an Untenured Full Professor of Sociology (teaching Sociology -
SPS/07) at the Faculty of Political Science "Roberto Ruffilli"
Forlì Campus at the University of Bologna.
From November 2003 he is confirmed Full Professor of Sociology
in the same Faculty of Political Science where he continues to
work.
Teaching and institutional activities
From 2011 to 2012 he has been Dean of the Faculty of
Political Sciences "R.Ruffilli" - Forlì Campus.
From March 2006 to 2010 he has been President of the Forlì
Campus.
He has been member of the Council of the PhD Program in Sociology of the University of Bologna.
He has been Head of the following Bachelor and Master Degree Courses at the School of Political Sciences "Roberto Ruffilli" Forlì Campus: Sociology, Sociology of the Third Sector, and Sociology and Criminological Sciences.
During the present academic year he is teaching the following
courses: Sociology at the Bachelor course in Sociology at the
School of Political Sciences "R.Ruffilli" - Forlì Campus and Social
Policies at Master course in Sociology and Social Services at the
School of Political Sciences of Bologna.
Research activities and scientific cooperations
He has lead and conducted a series of empirical researches at
local, national and international levels and he has written several
essays and papers in books and reviews.
At a local and national level, he has cooperated in delivering
analysis of services and public organisations, polls and researches
for many institutions and government bodies - such as the Ministry
of Health, Ministry of Justice, the Republic of San Marino-; for
local institutions - Regione Toscana, Regione Emilia-Romagna,
Regione Sardegna, the industrial association of Emilia-Romagna,
Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, Ismu Foundation, Riello Spa company -
and for local municipalities - municipalities of Bologna,
Forlì, Rimini and Cesena, province of Forlì-Cesena and chamber of
commerce of Forlì-Cesena.
He's also been project consultant for TEAM consortium and for
Telecom Italia (the Italian telecommunication company). He also
took part in the information technology commission at the Ministry
of Health during the institution of the National Health System.
He has also taken part in the European Community project "Third
system and occupation", coordinated a Socrates-Erasmus project and
taught within the School of Higher education in Public
Administration.
He led numerous researches on a wide range of subjects, such as
young people and their relationship with social, economic and
cultural changes in the contemporary society, the local job market
and the relationship with irregular work and technological
innovation, social policies at local level with particular
attention to the issue of working hours regulation, reconciliation
of times and social integration of some less advantaged social
groups.
During the academic year 2002-2003 he worked on the
implementation of the API Project (Methods and Techniques for
Integrated Learning) financed by the University of Bologna and
aimed at experimenting e-learning.
He carried out the research project “Job Network: development of
a network of services for a quality labour market in the footwear
sector”, concerning the industrial area of San Mauro Pascoli and
financed by the Emilia-Romagna Region. He has also conducted a
survey on a sample group of 1000 young people in the Province of
Forlì-Cesena, financed by the provincial government, as part of a
project aimed at looking more closely into the world of the youth
while studying individual and group life styles, education and
training processes, the relationship with work, politics, social
participation and values, as well as the perception of the
future.
Recently, he directed the research project “Socio-economic
conditions, life styles and well-being expectations. A research in
the Forlì-Cesena Province” (Provincia of Forlì-Cesena and
University of Bologna - Polo Scientifico-didattico di Forlì), that
involved 835 citizens aged 15-74.
From 2011 he takes part as “Senior expert-social” at
the research project “Data collection and research services on
fundamental rights issues - procurement procedure F/SE/10/03”,
funded by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
(Vienna), in which a multidisciplinary equipe of researchers
belonging to Bologna University cooperate, together with Cospe, to
produce papers and reports on thematics related to human rights.
Regarding this, he has been in charge of the national Italian
report for the research project “Data Protection: Redres mechanism
and their use. Social Fieldwork Research” and he is now in charge
of the national Italian report for the research project “Mapping
data sources on Roma in the Eu”.
He has recently directed the
research "Youth and intergenerational equity: problems and
perspectives in Emilia-Romagna” (in collaboration with Legislative
Assembly of Emilia-Romagna) and he is currently leading the project "Open city platform: ideation,
experimentation and evaluation of a citizens' marketplace”,
and the project “Analysis, evaluation and integration of the
practices of defence of citizens' rights" (funded
by Legislative Assembly of the Emilia-Romagna Region).
In the last period the themes subject to his works have
been:
- Youth issues covering matters concerning the relationship
between education and work placements;
- Women occupation and policies of conciliation between
worktimes and livinghood;
- the immigration process and the question of social
integration;
- The governance of local development with particular emphasis
on the transformation of industrial districts;
- Social policy issues with special regard to social programme
development, integrating services and the relationship between the
public and the private sectors;
- The introduction of the information technology within services
and health organizations.
He was the principal scientific and organizational responsible
for various academic conferences, among which could be mentioned
the international meeting Young people, Europe, the
Mediterranean. Territories, Identities, Policies (www.giovaniesocieta.unibo.it),
that took place in Forlì on 26-27-28 March 2009.
He has participated as coordinator at the annual ESPAnet Italia
2008 conference organized at Ancona (Italy) from 6/11/2008 to
8/11/2008, on the theme: local welfare and territorial focused
adjustments.
In 2006-2007 he organized and led a higher education course in
“Immigration fluxes, integration paths in local areas” at the Forlì
Campus.
He has led and organized numerous seminars and teachings on
behalf of local institutions, health organizations, cooperatives,
companies and privates.
He is director of the four-monthly journal “Autonomie locali e
servizi sociali” [“Local Autonomies and Social Services”]
(published by il Mulino) and a member of the Executive Committee of
the quarterly magazine "Sociologia del lavoro" [“Labour Sociology
”] directed by Michele La Rosa (published by Franco Angeli).
He is member of the Scientific Committee of the book series
“System theory and complexity” (ed. Aracne, Roma).
He is member of the Scientific Committee of the book series
“Métissage” (Ed. L'Harmattan Italia).
He is member of the Scientific Committee of the Scientific Journal "Studi di sociologia".
He is member of the Scientific Consulence Committee of the book
series “Ismu – Iniziative e studi sulla multietnicità” (ed.
FrancoAngeli, Milano).
He is member of the Scientific Committee of the book series
“Spe- Sociologia per la persona” (ed. Franco Angeli, Milano).
From 2006 he is member of the board of "Jeunes & Sociétés en
Europe et autour de la Méditerranée" (http://jeuneset-societes.cereq.fr).
He is member of the Scientific committee of Iress soc. Coop.,
Bologna (Istituto Regionale Emiliano-Romagnolo per i Servizi
sociali e Sanitari, la ricerca applicata e la formazione).
He is member of the Scientific Committee of the Europa Point,
Forlì (http://www.puntoeuropa.it/pe/index.php).
In 2008 and 2011 he has been appointed by the technical
scientific research committee of the autonomous province of Trento
as research project supervisor for "post-doc 2007" and for
“post-doc 2011”.
From 2002 he is member of the referee committee at the
University of Padova.
He is member of the Italian Association of Sociology (AIS), of
which he has been also member of the directive council, and part of
the “ELO” committee dealing with issues concerning economy, work
and organisation.
