Valentina Cappi

Valentina Cappi, Ph.D, is tenure track researcher at the Department of Interpreting and Translation at the University of Bologna, where she teaches "Climate change communication, media, and sustainability", "Sociology of cultural and communicative processes" and "Gender and Sociology".

Her research interests concern the relationships between media narratives, imagery and social practice, with particular reference to migration processes and climate change.

Her current research project is on “The media communication of interculturality: narratives and representations of otherness.”

The research project she conducted between 2021 and 2024 was on “Regenerating Climate Change Communication. Action-research with key players in raising awareness of the ecological transition.”

Se is in the research team of the Horizon Europe project “Alphabetica” and has collaborated on other Horizon2020 projects, including Perceptions. 

Previously she dealt with the role of media in the social construction of knowledge about illness and she conducted applied research on the transformations of health professions and the organization of healthcare in Italy.