Current position
June 2023 - Awarded with the National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes.
December 2021 - December 2024 - Junior Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Business Law of the University of Bologna on the project "Regenerating communication on climate change. Action-research with key players in the awareness-raising on the ecological transition to promote sustainable lifestyles and create a community of practices".
A.Y. 2022/2023, 2023/2024 - Professor of "Climate change communication, media, and sustainability" (4 CFU, 20 hours) and of "Sociology of cultural and communicative processes" (2 CFU, 16 hours) at the University of Bologna.
Former positions
A.Y. 2020/2021 - Research fellow at the Department of Sociology and Business Law of the University of Bologna, within the H2020 European research project Perceptions: Understand the Impact of Novel Technologies, Social Media, and Perceptions in Countries Abroad on Migration Flows and the Security of the EU & Provide Validated Counter Approaches, Tools and Practices.
A.Y. 2020/2021, 2021/2022 - Adjunct professor at the Department of Law of the University of Sassari for the course "Social Media and Communication of Migration Processes" (6 CFU, 36 hours) within the Master's degree program in Migration Management.
2021-2022 Collaboration with Media Mutations - Research Association on the project "Qualitative-quantitative analysis and classification of international television series in the Infinity and Premium libraries".
2021 - Assignment of scientific responsibility by Pavia Observatory of the research project "Africa Mediated 2021. Africa in media representation and youth imagery".
2016-2020 - Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History, Cultures and Civilizations of the University of Bologna, on the project "From prevention to cure: an historical-anthropological approach to the vocational training of health professionals in Italy (from the end of XXth Century to the present)".
2018-2020 - Assignment of scientific responsibility by the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Parma for several researches (see Publications).
2015-2016 - Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History, Cultures and Civilizations of the University of Bologna, on the project "Doctors and Patients among Communication, Representation and Negotiation".
Education
2011-2014 - PhD
candidate in the Doctoral Program in Contemporary History at the University of
Bologna. In May 2015 she discussed her dissertation thesis "Mediated Health: the Doctor-Patient Relationship Inside and Outside the TV Screen".
In 2013, she has been visiting PhD student at the Centre for Medical Humanities, University of Leeds (UK) for four months.
2011 - Graduated from the MA program in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at the University of Bologna in March 2011 defending the thesis: “Negotiating illness through the TV screen: reception and popular use of the medical drama”. She obtained 110/110 with honors, supervised by Prof. Ivo Quaranta.
During the MA, in 2009, she attended for five months the University of Provence Aix-Marseille I, in France, as winner of the exchange program Erasmus.
2008 - Graduated
from a BA program in Ethno-anthropological Sciences at University
of Bologna in October 2008 with a thesis in Anthropology of
Religions entitled “Ordering the difference: practices of relationship and dynamics of authority in the Sorority of Mantua”. She obtained
110/110 with honors, supervised by Prof. Adriana Destro.
Teaching
A.Y. 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 - Professor of "Climate change communication, media, and sustainability" (4 CFU, 20 hours) and of "Sociology of cultural and communicative processes" (2 CFU, 16 hours) at the University of Bologna.
A.Y. 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 she has been adjunct professor at the Department of Law of the University of Sassari for the course "Social Media and Communication of Migration Processes" (6 CFU, 36 hours) within the Master's degree program in Migration Management.
November 2023 - Appointed lecturer for the module entitled "Reframing Environmental Migration for Focusing the Nexus between Mobility and Climate Justice", within the Winter school in Global Citizenship Education held at Institut des Hautes Études Commerciales (IHEC) Carthage, and organised by the Italian Higher Education for Africa (IHEA) Foundation in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair in Global Citizenship Education in Higher Education (University of Bologna, Italy), the UNESCO Regional Office of the Maghreb-Antenna of Tunis, and the Ministry of High Education and Scientific Research in Tunisia.
November 2022 - Guest lecturer at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, within the L.L.B. Programme International and European Law for the seminar "Understanding the Impact of Narratives and Perceptions of Europe on Migration and Providing Practices, Tools, and Guides for Practitioners".
September 2022 - Guest lecturer at the Summer School "The perspective of Medical Humanities. The doctor-patient relationship between evidence-based medicine and narrative medicine" of the University of Bologna.
In 2020 she held the course "Qualitative research for health professionals" within the Master in "Medical Humanities" of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
In 2020 she gave lectures within the workshop "The role of the social worker in palliative care" of the University of Bologna.
In 2019 she gave several lectures on "Qualitative Research Methods for the Health Professions" within the Master in "Case/Care Management" of the University of Parma.
In 2019, 2020 and 2021 she held the course "Gender, Medicine and Representations" within the Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Women's and Gender Studies (GEMMA).
From 2016 to 2019 se held two BA seminar on "Culture and Health. Body, Mind, Health and Illness in Culture" as part of the courses "Comparative Global Health Issues and Systems" and "Foundations for Personal Health and Wellness" at USAC - University Studies Abroad Consortium in Reggio Emilia.
In 2013 and 2014 she held two BA
seminar on medicine during nazism as part of the course of
Contemporary History held by Professor Maria Malatesta at the
University of Bologna.
Conferences
In 2024 she participated as speaker in the IMISCOE Spring Conference "Mobilities and immobilities in an era of polycrisis (Istanbul, 17-19 April 2024).
In 2023 she participated as speaker in the ECREA (Science & Environmental Communication section) Conference "Biodiversity and climate change: Communicating interlocking dimensions of the ecological crises" (University of Valladolid, 16-17 ottobre 2023), in the AIS-PIC Conference "La forza dei legami (in)visibili" (Urbino, 21-23 September 2023), in the ESA RN05 Mid Term Conference "Bonding beyond boundaries" (Bologna, 28 August 2023), in the 20th IMISCOE Annual Conference "Migration and Inequalities. In search of answers and solutions" (Warsaw, 3-6 July 2023), in the 5th SISCC National Conference "Mondi possibili. Tra crisi, conflitti e pratiche creative" (Bari, 22-23 June 2023), in the ECHIC (The European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres) International Conference "Ecological Mindedness and Sustainable Wellbeing" (Ferrara, 25-27 May 2023). She organized and participated as speaker in the International Conference "Perceptions Final Symposium" (Bologna, 19-20 January 2023).
In 2022 she participated as speaker in the Italian Geographical Society's National Conference "Oltre la globalizzazione: narrative/narratives" (Università degli studi dell'Insubria, Como, 9 December 2022), in the 19th IMISCOE Annual Conference "Migration and Time: Temporalities of Mobility, Governance, and Resistance" (Oslo Metropolitan University, 30 June 2022), in the IV SISCC National Conference "Qualcosa è cambiato? La trasformazione dei saperi" (Università Federico II di Napoli, 23 June 2022), in the National Conference PIC AIS "Ecologie quotidiane. Valori, pratiche, media" (Università Sapienza di Roma, 27 May 2022), in the
In 2021 she participated as speaker in the 15th ESA Conference "Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures" (University of Barcellona, online, 2 September 2021), in the 18th IMISCOE Annuale Conference "Crossing borders, connecting cultures" (University of Luxemburg, online, 7 July 2021), in the International Conference "Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday" (Utrecht University, online, 23 April 2021), in the International Workshop "What do we say to migrants throughout their journey?" (Université Libre de Bruxelles, online, 22 April 2021), in the IMISCOE Spring Conference "Messaging Migration and Mobility" (Oxford University, online, 23 March 2021).
In 2019 she participated as speaker in the Conference "Professions and Society: Facing the Challenges of Marketization, Globalization and Digitalization" (Firenze, 6 July 2019); in the Conference "The role of the humanities within the training of medical students" (Bologna, 17 May 2019).
In 2018 she participated as speaker in the Conference "Slow Medical Education" (Napoli, 8-9 November 2018); in the Conference "Digital Health, Medical Technologies and Social Justice: Perspectives and Methodologies between Health Sociology and Science & Technology Studies" (Bologna, 12 September 2018); in 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) and in the 26th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services (Bologna, 7 June 2018).
In 2017 she participated as speaker in the 34° Conference of the Italian Society for General Practitioners (Firenze, December 1st, 2017), in the International Workshop "Soft Skills in Medical Education: The Role of Medical Humanities" (Siena, September 8, 2017) and in the VII Conference of Società Italiana delle Storiche “Gender and History: New Research Perspectives” (Pisa, February 2-4, 2017).
In 2016 she organized, together with Maria Malatesta, the Conference "The Doctor/Patient Relationship. Care, Communication and Training from Modern Age to the Present" (Bologna, May 27th, 2016).
In 2014 she participated as speaker in the 4th Royal Anthropological Institute Post-Graduate Conference “Whose Anthropology is It, Anyway?”, held by Brunel University (London, September 3-4, 2014) and in the EurHistXX Doctoral Workshop, held by EurHistXX Network (Central European University, Budapest, June, 14-15, 2014).
She participated as speaker in the Summer School of the University of
Bologna Doctorate in History in September 2012 and 2013 and in
the postgraduate methodology workshop
“(Re)finding a place for medicine within the humanities:
methodological approaches in the medical humanities” at the Leeds
Centre for Medical Humanities in March 2013.
She took part in the national convention for History PhD candidates organized by the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History (SISSCO) in Catania in May 2012 and in L'Aquila in June 2013.
Scientific participation in projects and affiliation with scientific societies and research centers
She participated, as a senior researcher, within the European H2020 project "PERCEPTIONS: Understand the Impact of Novel Technologies, Social Media, and Perceptions in Countries Abroad on Migration Flows and the Security of the EU & Provide Validated Counter Approaches, Tools and Practices" (2019-2023).
She participated, as a member of the research team, in the national research team of the AICS project "Butterfly Effect: we change words to change the world", coordinated by COSPE and implemented in collaboration with Department of Sociology and Economic Law, University of Bologna (a.y. 2022/2023).
She participated, as a member of the research team, in the project "Towards a tourism of roots in Emilia- Romagna: memories, imaginary, expectations and desires of emigrants from Emilia-Romagna in Argentina and Brazil", coordinated by the Department of Sociology and Law of Economics of the University of Bologna and funded by the Council of Emilia-Romanians in the World (Emilia-Romagna Region) (a.y. 2022/2023).
She participated, as a member of the research team coordinated by the Department of Sociology and Law of Economics of the University of Bologna, in the project ARPA - Wastewater for Agriculture, of the Emilia-Romagna Region, in synergy with the project 'MENAWARA Non-Conventional Water Reuse in Agriculture in Mediterranean countries', funded by the European Union Program ENI CBC MED (2021-2022).
She participated, as a member of the research team coordinated by the Department of Sociology and Economic Law, University of Bologna, in the European project "The Comparative Network on Refugee Externalisation Policies (CONREP)", Jean Monnet Erasmus+ (2019-2022).
She participated, as a member of the research team, in the interdisciplinary research project of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Parma 'Management of patient communication by nurses in the time of Covid-19' (2020-2022).
She participated, as a member of the research team, in the research-action project "Health Promoter in Prison," funded by the Emilia-Romagna Region, and implemented by LILT Reggio Emilia, multimedia teaching center for prevention and health promotion "Luoghi di Prevenzione" of Reggio Emilia, in collaboration with University of Parma and University of Bologna (2019-2020).
She participated, as a member of the research team, in the international research team of the University of Parma and the University of Yangon (Myanmar) within the Erasmus+ KA107 program (2018-2021).
She participated, as a junior researcher, in the FARB research project of the University of Bologna "Doctors and patients between history, representation, communication from the Antiquity to the present" (2013-2016).
She is a member of the European Sociological Association (ESA) - Sociology of Communications and Media Research (RN18) and Sociology of Migration (RN 35).
She is a member of the International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE).
She is a member of the AIS - Italian Sociological Association (Sociology of Cultural Processes and Institutions).
Since 2020, she is a member of the Ces.Co.Com Advanced Studies Center of the Department of Sociology and Economic Law at the University of Bologna.
Since is a member of the collective project Reimagining Mobilities.
Se is a member of the Italian Society for Medical Education.
She took part in the research unit working on the project FARB 2012/2015 "Doctors and patients. History, representation, communication from the Antiquity until today", funded by the University of Bologna.
Since 2019 she is member of the editorial board of the journal "Acta Biomedica for Health Professions" of the University of Parma.
She is a member of the CEPROF (Research Centre on the History of Professions) of the University of Bologna and a member of the scientific committee of the Center for Medical Humanities of the University of Bologna.
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 is 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).
