Roberto Rizza

Full Professor of Sociology of Economic and Labor Processes, specializing in the interplay between labor market policies and social inclusion, the implementation of public policies and street-level bureaucracy, career trajectories, and gender disparities.

His research has been published in renowned national and international journals, including South European Society and Politics, Journal of Public Policy, Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Sozialer Fortschritt, International Review of Sociology, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Stato e Mercato, and Sociologia del Lavoro.

He is the author of several monographs, the latest being Gendering the Political Economy of Labour Market Policies, published by Routledge.

Recipient of a European Science Foundation grant, enabling a research fellowship at the University of Bamberg.

Currently serves as Principal Investigator of the PRIN 2022 project, ALMADIA: Active Labour Market Policies and Street-Level Bureaucracy: Discretion in Action.