Riccardo Prandini

Riccardo Prandini is a Full Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communication Processes. His research focuses on: structural and cultural transformations of families in Italy; changes in national welfare systems; the production of "personalized" social services; transformations in the governance cultures of social services; and social innovation. He has participated in numerous Prin (Prin for National Research Projects) and European projects. He has been a member of national observatories on family and equal opportunities. He directs the series "Coincidentia Oppositorum" (Mimesis) and "Vite Parallele" (FrancoAngeli). He has numerous publications, translations, and research reports, and has participated in national and European research projects.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Scientific Society of Sociology, Culture, and Communication (SISCC).

He is the Director of the Master's Degree in Governance and Innovation in Local Welfare and of the CAF (Café for Welfare Community Manager) (University of Bologna). Go to the Curriculum vitae