Valentina Cappi

Current position

October 2024 – Tenure-Track Researcher (RTT) at the Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna.

June 2023 – National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes (Scientific Sector 14/C2).

Member of the research team for the Horizon Europe project "ALPHABETICA: Activating Learning Paths: Holistic Art-Based Education and Training for Inclusion and Cultural Awareness" (2025–2028).

Coordinating instructor of the project "Connected or Divided? Ethics and Inclusion in a Human-Centered Digital World", an innovative international cooperation project of the Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna, in collaboration with the National University of Singapore, Kobe University, and Toyo University (2025–2026).

 

Former positions

Dec. 2021 – Sept. 2024: Fixed-term Researcher (Type A, PON) at the Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna. Project: "Regenerating Climate Change Communication. Action Research with Leading Organizations for Ecological Transition and Sustainable Lifestyles."

Feb. 2021 – Dec. 2022: Research collaborator with Media Mutations – Research Association for the project “Quali-quantitative analysis and classification of international TV series available in Infinity and Premium libraries.”

Sept. 2020 – Sept. 2021: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, within the H2020 project "Perceptions: Understanding the Impact of Novel Technologies, Social Media, and Perceptions Abroad on Migration Flows and EU Security."

Feb. – May 2021: Scientific coordinator for the research project "Mediated Africa 2021. Africa in the Media and the Imagination of Youth", for the Osservatorio di Pavia.

Feb. 2018 – Mar. 2020: Scientific coordinator for socio-health research (see publications) commissioned by the Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma.

Jul. 2016 – Jul. 2020: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna. Project: “From Prevention to Care: A Historical-Anthropological Approach to the Training of Health Workers in Italy from the Late 20th Century to Present.”

Jul. 2016 – Apr. 2020: Research collaboration with Mediaset RTI on “Quali-quantitative analysis and classification of international TV series in Infinity and Premium libraries.”

Mar. 2019 – Mar. 2020: Teaching tutor (contract) for the Master's in "Innovative Educational Strategies in the Social and Health Fields: European Standards and Innovation", University of Parma.

Feb. 2016 – 2019: Consultant (contracted) for the Regional Multimedia Health Education Center "Luoghi di Prevenzione", LILT, Reggio Emilia.

2015–2016: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna. Project: "Doctors and Patients: Communication, Representation, and Negotiation."

 

Education

2011–2014: PhD (Cycle XXVII), University of Bologna. Dissertation: "Mediated Healthcare: The Doctor-Patient Relationship On and Off the Television Screen" (defended May 13, 2015).

2011: MA in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, University of Bologna. Thesis in Anthropology of the Body and Illness: "Negotiating Illness through the Small Screen: Media Consumption and Popular Use of Medical Dramas" (Graduated with honors, Advisor: Prof. Ivo Quaranta, Co-advisor: Prof. Gaetano Mangiameli).

2008: BA in Ethno-Anthropological Sciences, University of Bologna. Thesis in Anthropology of Religions: "Ordering Difference: Relational Practices and Authority Dynamics in the Sorority of Mantua" (Graduated with honors, Advisor: Prof. Adriana Destro).

 

Study and Research Abroad

Feb.–Mar. 2023: Short-term scholar at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), Brown University.

Jan.–Apr. 2013: Visiting researcher at the Centre for Medical Humanities, University of Leeds (funded by a Marco Polo scholarship).

Sept. 2009 – Jan. 2010: Erasmus student at Université Aix-Marseille I, France (5-month study stay).

 

Teaching

Professor of “Media and Climate Change Communication” (6 ECTS, 40 hours) and “Gender and Sociology” (6 ECTS, 40 hours), University of Bologna (Academic Year 2025/2026).

Lecturer in the Summer School “Climate Change: Artistic Interventions and Alternative Futures”, Department of the Arts, University of Bologna (Bologna, 9–13 June 2025).

Lecturer in the Blended Intensive Erasmus+ Program “Culture and Education for a Sustainable and Inclusive Future”, Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna (Bologna, 5–8 May 2025).

Lecturer in the Winter School “Politics, Society and the Environment in the Classroom”, organized by Toyo University and University of Bologna (Tokyo, 22–28 February 2025).

Lecturer in the 1st Level Master’s Program “New Media, Language and Society”, Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna (Academic Years 2024/2025 and 2025/2026).

Lecturer in the PhD Program in Sociology and Social Research, University of Bologna (Academic Years 2021/2022–2025/2026).

Professor of “Climate Change Communication, Media, and Sustainability” (4 ECTS, 20 hours), “Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes” (3 ECTS, 15 hours), and “Gender and Sociology” (6 ECTS, 40 hours), University of Bologna (Academic Year 2024/2025).

Professor of “Climate Change Communication, Media, and Sustainability” (4 ECTS, 20 hours), within the Master's in Sociology and Social Work, and in “Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes” (3 ECTS, 15 hours), Bachelor's in Podiatry, University of Bologna (Academic Years 2022/2023 and 2023/2024).

Contract Professor at the Department of Law, University of Sassari, for the course “Social Media and Communication of Migration Processes” (6 ECTS, 36 hours), within the Master’s Degree in Migration Management (Academic Years 2020/2021 and 2021/2022).

Lecturer in the Winter School in Global Citizenship Education, organized by Italian Higher Education for Africa (IHEA) Foundation, in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair in Global Citizenship Education in Higher Education (University of Bologna), UNESCO Regional Office for the Maghreb (Tunis Branch), and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Tunisia. Module taught: “Reframing Environmental Migration: Mobility and Climate Justice” (Tunis, 13–18 November 2023).

Guest lecturer in the L.L.B. Programme in International and European Law, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, seminar: “Understanding the Impact of Narratives and Perceptions of Europe on Migration and Providing Practices, Tools, and Guides for Practitioners” (7 November 2022).

Faculty coordinator for the “Workshop on the Role of Social Workers in Palliative Care: Skills and Operational Practices” (3 ECTS, 15 hours), University of Bologna, within both Bachelor's and Master’s Degree Programs in Social Work and Sociology (Academic Years 2021/2022–2023/2024).

Lecturer in the Summer School “The Perspective of Medical Humanities: The Patient Relationship between Evidence-Based Medicine and Narrative Medicine”, University of Bologna (12–16 September 2022).

Lecturer in the Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Women’s and Gender Studies (GEMMA), with a lecture series titled “Gender, Medicine and Representations” (Academic Years 2018/2019, 2019/2020, and 2020/2021).

Lecturer in the Master’s Program in “Medical Humanities”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, for the module “Qualitative Research for Health Professions” (Academic Years 2019/2020 and 2020/2021).

Lecturer in the BA course “The Role of the Social Worker in Palliative Care: Skills and Operational Practices”, University of Bologna (Academic Years 2019/2020 to 2022/2023).

Lecturer in the Master’s Program “Case Care Management in Hospitals and Community Settings for Health Professions”, University of Parma, with a 28-hour module on “Social Research Methodology in the Healthcare Field” (Feb.–Apr. 2019).

Lecturer for the course “Culture and Health: Body, Mind, Health and Illness in Culture” within the University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC) in Reggio Emilia (Academic Years 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, and 2021/2022).

Seminar instructor on “Medicine and Nazism during the Third Reich”, as part of the Contemporary History course by Prof. Maria Malatesta (Bachelor’s in Humanities), University of Bologna (Academic Years 2012/2013 and 2013/2014).

Since 2020, has regularly conducted seminar-based teaching in the following courses at the University of Bologna:
Social Communication (Prof. Paola Parmiggiani), Master’s in Sociology and Social Work;
Sociology of Culture (Prof. Paola Parmiggiani), Bachelor’s in Political, Social and International Sciences.

 

Conferences

2025

• Narratives of Non-Human Resilience and Human Mistakes: Anthropogenic Climate Change in Attenborough's Netflix Documentaries, paper presented at the International Scientific Conference “Engaging Communities in Environmental and Climate In/Action: Narratives, Discursive Practices, and Transdisciplinary Approaches”, University of Bari (Bari, 23–25 June 2025).

• Against Snack News: Graphic Journalism and the Climate Crisis, Between Slow Storytelling and Deep Time, paper presented at the 7th Conference of the Italian Scientific Society of Sociology, Culture, Communication (SISCC) “No More Time. Crises and Emergencies in Contemporary Society”, University of Cagliari (19–20 June 2025).

• Externalizing Mobility (In)Justice: Intergovernmental and Non-Governmental Awareness Campaigns on Climate Change-Induced Migration (with Pierluigi Musarò), paper presented at the International Scientific Conference “Reimagining Climate (Im)mobilities in the Panicocene”, Durham University (Durham, 8–9 May 2025).

2024

• Between pity and insecurity: Intergovernmental and nongovernmental awareness campaigns on climate change induced migration (with Elena Giacomelli and Chiara Davino), paper presented at the National Conference AIS "Emotions and reasons in neoliberal society" (Lecce, 18-20 September 2024).

• De-naturalizing climate change: negotiating media frames (with Paola Parmiggiani), paper presented at the VI Conference SISCC "We can still understand society. Understanding, prediction, criticism" (Roma, 20-21 June 2024).

• De-bordering environmental migration: an analysis of information campaigns on climate change-induced migration (with Elena Giacomelli and Pierluigi Musarò), paper presented at the International IMISCOE Spring Conference "Mobilities and immobilities in an era of polycrisis" (Istanbul, 17-19 April 2024).

• Denaturalizing climate change. From global to local communication challenges, seminar at Brown University (Providence, 1 March 2024).
  

2023

• The wise witness. What’s in and what’s missing about climate change in David Attenborough’s Netflix documentaries, paper presented at the International Conference ECREA (Science & Environmental Communication section) "Biodiversity and climate change: Communicating interlocking dimensions of the ecological crises" (University of Valladolid, 16-17 October 2023).
  

• Daubing fossil culture: Last Generation's protests between old ways and new media (with Lorenza Villani), paper presented at the Conference AIS-PIC "The strength of (in)visible bonds" (Urbino, 21-23 September 2023).
  

• Exploratory hypothesis on the interrelation between media consumption, awareness, and sustainable behaviors of the student population in Italy (with Alessandro Bozzetti), paper presented at ESA RN05 Mid Term Conference "Bonding beyond boundaries" (Bologna, 28 August 2023).

• Re-imagining multicultural Europe through the arts: The experience of the R.E.D. (Reframing the European Dream) Carpet (with Lorenza Villani and Pierluigi Musarò), paper presented at the 20th IMISCOE Annual Conference "Migration and Inequalities. In search of answers and solutions" (Varsaw, 3-6 July 2023).

• Possible springs: places, practices, and narratives of the climate crisis in the protest actions of Last Generation(with Lorenza Villani), paper presented at the V Conference SISCC "Possible worlds. Between crises, conflicts, and creative practices" (Bari, 22-23 June 2023).

• The wise witness. What’s in and what’s missing about climate change in David Attenborough’s Netflix documentaries, paper presented at the International Conference "Ecological Mindedness and Sustainable Wellbeing" di ECHIC (The European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres) (Ferrara, 25-27 May 2023).

• Organization of the International Scientific Conference "Perceptions Final Symposium" (Bologna, 19-20 January 2023).
  

2022

• Mapping Perceptions: the R.E.D. (Reframing the European Dream) Carpet as a creative cartography of Europe" (with Lorenza Villani and Pierluigi Musarò), paper presented at the Conference "Beyond globalization: narratives" organized by the Italian Geographical Society (Università degli studi dell'Insubria, Como, 9 December 2022).

• Interconnected temporalities in migration experiences, management and decision-making: the case of post-2015 Italy (with Alagie Jinkang, Lorenza Villani and Pierluigi Musarò), paper presented at the 19th IMISCOE Annual Conference "Migration and Time: Temporalities of Mobility, Governance, and Resistance" (Oslo Metropolitan University, 30 June 2022).

• Interaction tests: creative methodologies as opportunities for transmitting knowledge and welcoming practices (with Lorenza Villani and Paola Parmiggiani), paper presented at the IV Conference SISCC "Has anything changed? The transformation of knowledge" (Università Federico II di Napoli, 23 June 2022).
  
  
• Motivating the ecological transition: analysis of three Italian communication campaigns between best practices and missed opportunities (with Lorenza Villani), paper presented at the Conference PIC AIS "Everyday ecologies. Values, practices, media" (Università Sapienza di Roma, 27 May 2022).
  

2021

• The life of migrant workers during Covid-19 Crisis: Decree Relaunch Italy and its contradictions (with Alagie Jinkang and Pierluigi Musarò), paper presented at the 15th ESA Conference "Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures" (University of Barcellona, online, 2 September 2021).
  
  
• Information campaigns: the role of journalists in disseminating narratives about Europe in The Gambia (with Alagie Jinkang, Pierluigi Musarò and Gabriele Puzzo), paper presented at the 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference "Crossing borders, connecting cultures" (University of Luxemburg, online, 7 July 2021).
  
  
• Chair (with Pantelis Michalis) of the panel "Migrants' perceptions of the EU. Imaginaries, policies and symbolic management across Europe and beyond (PERCEPTIONS panel 1)" at the 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference "Crossing borders, connecting cultures" (University of Luxemburg, online, 7 July 2021).
  
  
• Africa in the imagination of young people: focus group, paper presented at the national workshop nazionale “Mediated Africa: the role of information and ethics in reporting on Africa and its protagonists”, organized by the Carta di Roma Association for the Order of Journalists (28 May, online).
  
  
• The role of Gambian journalists in shaping narratives about Europe: agenda, dissemination channels and communication strategies (with Alagie Jinkang e Pierluigi Musarò), paper presented at the International Conference "Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday" (Utrecht University, online, 23 April 2021).
  
  
• The ‘back way’ phenomenon: Awareness Campaigns and the role of journalists in disseminating narratives about Europe in The Gambia (with Alagie Jinkang and Pierluigi Musarò), paper presented at the International Workshop “What do we say to migrants throughout their journey?” (Université Libre de Bruxelles, online, 22 April 2021).
  
  
• The role of local journalists in shaping narratives about Europe in The Gambia: agenda, dissemination channels and communication strategies (with Alagie Jinkang, Pierluigi Musarò and Gabriele Puzzo), paper presented at the IMISCOE Spring Conference “Messaging Migration and Mobility” (Oxford University, online, 23 March 2021).

2019

• Qualitative assessment of the “Health Promoter in Prison” project, paper presented at the final seminar of the “Health Promoter in Prison” project (Reggio Emilia, 19 December 2019).
  
  
• Building trust within the doctor/patient relationship: the point of view of some Italian doctors, paper presented at the International Conference "Professions and Society: Facing the Challenges of Marketization, Globalization and Digitalization" (Firenze, 6 July 2019).
  
  
• Television fiction as a training tool and model for medical students, paper presente at the conference “The role of the humanities in the training of medical students” (Bologna, 17 May 2019).
  
  
• Building trust in the healthcare relationship. The doctors' point of view, paper presented at the “Social Facts” seminar (Verona, 16 May 2019).
  
  
• The project “Cross-sector actions to promote the psychological and physical well-being of young people through interventions aimed at improving living and working environments”, paper presented at the Conference of the Italian League for the Fight Against Cancer in Reggio Emilia “The relationship between health, the built environment, and landscapes” (Reggio Emilia, 13 March 2019).

2018

• Training in the motivational approach as a time and tool for reflection on professional practice: the case of general practitioners in training in Emilia-Romagna, poster presentation at the Conference of the Italian Society of Medical Pedagogy “Slow Medical Education: the right time to learn to heal” (Napoli, 8-9 November 2018).
  
  
• Impact assessment of a blended course on the motivational approach for general practitioners in training in the Emilia-Romagna Region (with G. Artioli, M.C. Guarnieri, S. Ferrari, E. Ninfa, L. Sarli) poster presentation at the Conference of the Italian Society of Medical Pedagogy “Slow Medical Education: the right time to learn to heal” (Napoli, 8-9 November 2018).
  
  
• Methods for analyzing training needs in healthcare companies: research in companies in Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy (with Gruppo Linea Verde Sipem), poster presentation at the Conference of the Italian Society of Medical Pedagogy “Slow Medical Education: the right time to learn to heal” (Napoli, 8-9 November 2018).
  
  
• Secrets and lies: narratives of conditional trust in the doctor/patient relationship, paper presented at the conference "Digital health, medical technologies, and social justice: perspectives and methodologies of analysis between Health Sociology and Science & Technology Studies" (Bologna, 21 September 2018).
  
  
• Narratives of a Changing Relationship: Trust in Italian Doctors' Perception, paper presented at the 17th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology “Old Tensions, Emerging Paradoxes in Health: Rights, Knowledge and Trust” (Lisbona, 8 June 2018).
  
  
• A Pilot Experience to Train General Practitioners in Implementing Health Promotion and Improving Patients' Involvement, paper presented at the 26th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services(Bologna, 7 June 2018).

2017

• The motivational approach as a tool for self-efficacy and facilitating relationships with those receiving care, paper presented at the 34° National Congress SIMG - Italian Society of General Medicine and Primary Care (Firenze, 1 December 2017).
  
  
• Culture and Health: Body, Mind, Health and Illness in Culture, paper presented within the course “Comparative Global Health Issues and Systems” of USAC - University Studies Abroad Consortium (Reggio Emilia, 4 October 2017).
  
  
• The Invention of Trust. Doctors and Patients from the Antiquity to the Present, paper presented at the international workshop "Soft Skills in Medical Education: The Role of Medical Humanities" (Siena, 8 September 2017).

2016

• «Miss, can I speak to the doctor?» Media narratives and biographical accounts of female health professionals, paper presented at the 7th Congress of the Italian Society of Women Historians “Gender and history: new perspectives for research” (Pisa, 2-4 February 2017).
  
  
• Culture and Health: Body, Mind, Health and Illness in Culture, seminar within the course “Foundations for Personal Health and Wellness” di USAC - University Studies Abroad Consortium (Reggio Emilia, 20 September 2016).
  
  
• Organization and participation in the study day "The doctor-patient relationship. Care, communication, and training from the modern age to today", curated by Maria Malatesta and Valentina Cappi, Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna (Bologna, 27 May 2016).
  
  
• Patients and doctors beyond the screen. Elements for an ethnography of medical dramas, paper presented at the study seminar “Narrating, healing, dialoguing,” organized by the Center for Medical Humanities Studies at the University of Bologna (Bologna, 27 April 2016).

2014

• Negotiating the Doctor-Patient Relationship through Television: an Ethnography of Medical Dramas’ Italian Viewers, paper presented at the 4th Royal Anthropological Institute Post-Graduate Conference “Whose Anthropology is It, Anyway?”, organized by Brunel University (Londra, 3-4 September 2014).
  
  
• Negotiating Doctor-Patient Relationship through the Television: a Comparative Research on Italian, French and British Viewers, paper presented at the EurHistXX Doctoral Workshop, organized by EurHistXX network (Central European University, Budapest, 14-15 June 2014).

2013

• Look but don't touch: the doctor's gaze beyond the screen. Auscultation of contemporary medical practice, paper presented at the Doctoral Week in History at the University of Bologna (Bologna, 17-19 September 2013).
  
  
• Media representations of the medical profession in Italy from 1980 to the present: a study on the evolution of the doctor-patient relationship based on television fiction, paper presented at the National Doctoral Seminar SISSCO - Storie in Corso VIII (L’Aquila, 19-21 June 2013).
  
  
• Negotiating Doctor-Patient Relationship Through The Medical Drama: An Italian Case Study, paper presented at the Postgraduate Workshop “(Re)finding a place for medicine within the humanities: methodological approaches in the Medical Humanities”, organized by the Centre for Medical Humanities of University of Leeds (Leeds, 26 March 2013).

2012

• Hospital on TV: the representation of healthcare through television fiction in Italy from 1980 to the present day, paper presented at the Summer School of the PhD Program in History at the University of Bologna (Bologna, 25-27 September 2012).
  
  
• Doctoral reform: problems and prospects. Criticisms and proposals from doctoral students, paper presented at the National Doctoral Seminar SISSCO - Storie in Corso VII (Catania, 24-25 May 2012).

 

Scientific participation in projects and affiliation with scientific societies and research centers

Member of the research team for the Horizon Europe project "ALPHABETICA: Activating Learning Paths: Holistic Art-Based Education and Training for Inclusion and Cultural Awareness" (2025–2028).

Coordinating instructor for the international cooperation project "Connected or Divided? Ethics and Inclusion in a Human-Centered Digital World", Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna, in partnership with the National University of Singapore, Kobe University, and Toyo University (2025–2026).

Senior researcher for the H2020 European project "PERCEPTIONS: Understanding the Impact of Novel Technologies, Social Media, and Perceptions in Countries Abroad on Migration Flows and the Security of the EU & Providing Validated Counter Approaches, Tools and Practices" (2019–2023).

Member of the national research team for the AICS project "The Butterfly Effect: Changing Words to Change the World", coordinated by COSPE in collaboration with the Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna (Academic Year 2022/2023).

Researcher in the project "Toward a Roots Tourism in Emilia-Romagna: Memories, Imaginaries, Expectations, and Desires of Emigrants from Emilia-Romagna in Argentina and Brazil", coordinated by the Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, funded by the Council of Emigrants from Emilia-Romagna Abroad (AY 2022/2023).

Researcher in the ARPA – Wastewater for Agriculture project, coordinated by the Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, in synergy with the MENAWARA – Non-Conventional Water Reuse in Agriculture in Mediterranean Countries project (EU ENI CBC MED Program) (2021–2022).

Member of the research team in the European project "The Comparative Network on Refugee Externalisation Policies (CONREP)", Jean Monnet Erasmus+ (2019–2022).

Researcher in the interdisciplinary project "Communication Management with Patients by Nursing Staff during COVID-19", Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma (2020–2022).

Researcher in the action-research project "Health Promoters in Prisons", funded by the Emilia-Romagna Region, conducted by LILT Reggio Emilia and the multimedia health education center Luoghi di Prevenzione, in collaboration with the Universities of Parma and Bologna (2019–2020).

Researcher in the Erasmus+ KA107 international cooperation project between the University of Parma and the University of Yangon (Myanmar) (2018–2021).

Junior researcher in the FARB project "Doctors and Patients between History, Representation, and Communication from Antiquity to Today", funded by the University of Bologna (2013–2016).

2012–2015: Member of the FARB research unit for the project "Doctors and Patients between History, Representation, and Communication from Antiquity to Today. A Contribution of the Humanities to Medical Training."

Since 2025: Member of the International Interuniversity Research Center Dis-4Change: Studies on Climate Change and Environmental Discourse.

Since 2022: Member of the Italian Scientific Society of Sociology, Culture, Communication (SISCC).

Since 2020: Member of the Advanced Studies Center Ces.Co.Com, Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna.

Since 2020: Member of the European Sociological Association (ESA) – Research Networks on Sociology of Communications and Media (RN18) and Sociology of Migration (RN35).

Since 2021: Member of the collective research project Reimagining Mobilities.

Since 2020: Member of the International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE).

Since June 2018: Member of AIS – Italian Sociological Association, sections: Cultural Processes and Institutions, and Sociology of Health.

Since February 2018: Member of SIPEM – Italian Society of Medical Education.

Since 2012: Member of the Research Center on the History of Professions (CEPROF), University of Bologna.

Since 2025: Editorial board member of the journal Sociologia della Comunicazione.

Since 2019: Editorial board member of the journal Acta Biomedica for Health Professions.

 

Public engagement activities

She is part of the University of Bologna's public engagement project "LaBo2030" aimed at raising awareness of Agenda 2030 among high school students (a.y. 2023/2024).

She has been coordinator of the Third Mission project "Community Gym" of the Department of Sociology and Economic Law's, which won a University grant (a.y. 2023/2024).

She participated as a speaker in the Festival "Resilience: Zero means nothing" and in the School of Resilience "New looks on climate neutrality", organized by Kilowatt in Bologna (June 8-11, 2023).

She conceived, organized and participated as a speaker in the Festival "Who's Afraid of the Future? Mobility, Migration and Climate Change", organized by Reimagining Mobilities and Department of Sociology and Economic Law, winner of an ISA Topic (Institute for Advanced Studies) grant from the University of Bologna (May 2023). Together with Lorenza Villani and Paola Parmiggiani, within the Festival she also curated the exhibition "Beyond the Anthropocene?".

She organized and participated as a speaker in the seminar series "Creative Perspectives for Reimagining Mobility, Borders and Otherness," curated by Reimagining Mobilities (a.y. 2021/2022).

She co-constructed and participated in the creative dissemination activity of the results of the H2020 PERCEPTIONS project in the public space "R.E.D. (Reframing the European Dream) Carpet" (a.y. 2021/2022).

She has participated in numerous editions of the European Researchers' Night.

She is a member of the ParliamoneOra Association, for which she has held seminars aimed at non-academic audiences.

She participated, as a speaker, in the training workshop organized by the Associazione Carta di Rome for the National Journalists Association "The Role of Journalism in the Narrative of Forced Migration and the Climate Emergency" with a speech titled "Communicating the nexus between climate change and migration: problems and proposals" (Nov. 28, 2022).

She participated, as a speaker, in the Seminar "Inequalities, Discrimination and Information in the Voices of Migrant People" within Sabir - Festival of Mediterranean Cultures, with a speech entitled "What Expectations and Perceptions of Europe?" (Matera, May 14, 2022).