Academic position:
Associate Professor - SSD M-PED/03
Academic career:
2018-2021: Researcher on fixed-term contract type b) - SSD M-PED/03
2015-2018: Researcher with fixed-term contract type a) at the Department of Educational Sciences "Giovanni Maria Bertin" of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna - SSD M-PED/03
2011-2015:Postdoctoral Research Fellowship:
- "Design, monitoring and evaluation of university Master's courses on inclusion of disabled people" - Department of Education Sciences "G.M. Bertin" - University of Bologna - SSD M-PED/03
- Inclusive Processes Educational Approaches and Sensory Disabilities" - Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Educazione "G.M. Bertin" - University of Bologna - SSD M-PED/03
- "Mapping the competences required by SMEs in order to build a Validation/Certification model, for the purposes of a "Competence-based training project" for the organisational development of working people and companies in times of crisis. Study and research contribution to the creation of a regional Certification/Accreditation/Recognition system" - Department of Education Sciences - University of Padua - SSD M-PED/03
Training:
2011: PhD in Pedagogical, Educational and Training Sciences, Single Cycle XXIII at the University of Padua.
2006: Master's degree in "Science of Continuing Education" from the Faculty of Education Sciences at the University of Padua and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Venice Ca' Foscari.
2004: Three-year degree in "Professional educator in social, health, cultural and environmental structures" from the Faculty of Education Sciences at the University of Padua.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING ACTIVITY in SSd M-PED/03
Since 2015 she has been continuously teaching as a titular and/or co-tenured professor in various degree and master degree courses for the Department of Education Sciences and the Department of Psychology at the University of Bologna.
She is currently a Prof on the degree courses
Bachelor's Degree in Social and Cultural Education - Bologna Campus
Master's Degree in Management and Design of Educational Interventions in Social Hardship - Bologna Campus
Master's degree in School and Community Psychology - Cesena campus.
She organises and coordinates seminars on her disciplines.
Prof at the Specialization Course for Support Activities A.A 2015-2016; 2016-2017: 2018-2019; 2020-2021 University of Bologna; 2017-2018; 2018-2019; 2019-2020; 2020-2021 University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; 2018-2019 University of Urbino; 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 University of San Marino; 2019-2020 University of Sassari; 2019-2020; 2020-2021 University of Parma
Prof in Pre-fit Courses University of Bologna A.A. 2017-2018
Professor in the Qualification Course of Professional Educator socio-pedagogical University of Bologna A.Y. 2018-2019; 2019-2020; 2020-2021
Lecturer in University Masters on topics related to SSD M-PED/03 at the Universities of: Bologna, Urbino, Florence, Bergamo
Contract Professor for the development of the on-line laboratory course in Special Pedagogy of the Degree Course in Science for the Education of Childhood and Preadolescence of the University of Padua, Faculty of Education Sciences (Academic Year 2016/2017)
Teaching support
University of Padua. continuous from A.Y. 2009-2010 to A.Y. 2012-2013 in Master's, Master's, Bachelor's and Master's degree courses.
University of Bologna. continuous from A.Y. 2012-2013 to A.Y. 2014-2015 in Bachelor's and Master's degrees.
SIPED member, Italian Society of Pedagogy;
SIPeS, Italian Society of Special Pedagogy;
SIREF, Italian Society of Educational and Training Research;
SIRD, Italian Society of Educational Research;
EARLI , European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction;
Member of ASAFOR, Association of Former Students in the Training Sector and President for 2013.
National and international funding:
2016: Co-coordinator of the project on the development of an accompanying path of the University of Korca and the University of Elbasan (Albania) on the topics of inclusion of people with disabilities.
2016: Coordinator of "Disability and migration: interweaving of inclusion" National research funded by the Unione delle Terre d'Argine.
2017: FFARB (Individual annual funding of core research activities).
2018: Almaidea Grant Junior call (from 29/01/2018 to 28/01/2020) PI of the project "Personal and social development. Self-determination and inclusion of people with disabilities".
2018: Coordinator of the project "Inclusive4all. Inclusive education for all children in Bosnia and Herzegovina" With Save The Children (from 01/05/2018 to 30/04/2020).
National and international awards:
2011: ASFOR "Luigi Pieraccioni" Award in collaboration with Unioncamere and Istituto G. Tagliacarne Institute for the best PhD Thesis on the theme: "Studies and Research on Sustainable Territorial Development" Second place awarded to the PhD research entitled: "Training for working people. Effects in organisations".
2015: Prof. Roberta Caldin, Dr. Valeria Friso: scientific supervision; Dr. Laura Corazza: technical supervision; Mirko Giorgi, Alessandro Dardani: Direction. First Prize at VisualFest 2015 for the medium-length film with audiodescription "Vincersi" (Winning) The VisualFest festival aims to promote the dissemination of works by scholars, teachers, students, educators, professionals and operators who use the image as a vector of knowledge, as a methodology, as a method and as a means of investigating the phenomena that concern man in his relationship with himself, with other men, with the world of ideas and things, with events.
2015: Italian Prize in Pedagogy for the book: Friso Valeria, Lavoro e formazione. Una prospettiva inclusiva, Cleup, Padova, 2012.
