Sofia Altini
Sofia Altini received her Master’s degree in Primary Education from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia with a thesis entitled ‘Metaphor, Creativity, Learning. Documentation and interpretation of metaphorical processes of children in Diana Preschool’ (supervisor: Prof. Annamaria Contini). In addition, she is graduating in the Master’s degree program in Pedagogical Sciences with a thesis on action-research as a learning methodology for adults (supervisor: Prof. Chiara Bertolini). Her main research interests are in the field of pedagogy, with a focus on the concept of lifelong learning and the relationship between learning and digital transition.
PhD Research’s title: The Impact of Digital Transition on Lifelong Learning and Vocational Education Offerings – Beyond the Adoption of Technologies
Tutor: Prof. Annamaria Contini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Izabela Ambo Okusiro
Izabela Ambo Okusiro holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Federal University of Uberlândia (Brazil), with a thesis titled: ‘The uberization of work from the international perspective: the negligence of the World Trade Organization and the International Labor Organization’. She holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Federal University of Santa Maria (Brazil), with the thesis ‘Latin American Movements of Uberized Workers: An Analysis from Below’. Her main research interests include critical (decolonial) international law, international economic law, sociology of labor, and transformations of the world of work, with a particular focus on platform capitalism and the uberization of labor.
PhD Research’s title: Multi-Ethnicity of App-Delivery Workforce and Ingroup-Outgroup Relationships in Modena’s Case dei Riders: An Ethnographic Study
Tutor: Prof. Matteo Rinaldini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
izabela.ambookusiro@unimore.it
Alessandro Carrara
Alessandro Carrara attended the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in the faculty of Philosophy. At the same time, he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at the University of Pisa, with a thesis entitled Recognition and Social Freedom in the Thought of Axel Honneth, and his Master’s degree in Philosophy and Forms of Knowledge, also at the University of Pisa, with a thesis entitled Analysis of the Corporate Culture Dispositif from a Philosophical Perspective. He collaborates with the ethical contemporary art park Horti by Almo Collegio Borromeo in Pavia. His main interests are moral and social philosophy, ethics applied to organisations, aesthetics, contemporary art and museology.
PhD Research’s title: The Art of Care. Ethical-philosophical regeneration of the museum
Tutor: Prof. Serena Feloj (University of Pavia)
Costanza Di Lorito
Costanza Di Lorito earned her Bachelor’s degree in Classics from the University of Pavia, where she also completed her Master’s degree in Archaeology, with a thesis on the necropolis of San Filippo d’Osimo, located in the province of Ancona. Throughout her academic studies, she was a student at the Almo Collegio Borromeo and the Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia (IUSS). Her research focuses primarily on the recovery and preservation of archival documentation related to archaeological fieldwork, with a particular emphasis on the central Adriatic region.
PhD Research’s title: Archival documentation as a source for the study of the history and archaeology of the territory: the case of Emilia-Romagna and Marche
Tutor: Prof. Arianna Fermani (University of Macerata)
Co-tutor: Roberto Perna (University of Macerata)
Angelo Moro
Angelo Moro holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political, International and Administrative Sciences from the University of Pisa and a Master’s degree in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Florence. He subsequently completed the Master Pratiques de l’interdisciplinarité dans les sciences sociales at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He was an honorary student at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and a visiting student researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and the Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence. He was a teaching assistant at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Université de Franche-Comté and the Institut d’études politiques in Toulouse. He was a research associate at the Italian National Center of Competence Artes 4.0 ‘Advanced Robotics and enabling digital TEchnologies & Systems 4.0’. He then held a research grant in Sociology of Economic Processes and Labour at the Institute of Economics of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa. His research interests concern the processes of technological innovation in the world of work, the consequences for workers and the role of trade unions and industrial relations.
Title of the research project: Technopolitics of Production in Manufacturing and Services. Consent, Negotiation and Resistance to Digital and Automation Technologies in the automotive and Cleaning Industries in Italy
Tutor: Prof. Matteo Rinaldini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Daniela Regnoli
Daniela Regnoli obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences from Unimore, with a thesis focused on the communication of culture within a local authority in Reggio Emilia. She then specialized in the Master’s degree in Advertising and Institutional Communication (Unimore) with a thesis entitled ‘Hypernovel Effect. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman’. She also earned a second level Master’s degree in Public History from the same university, collaborating with the research group dedicated to the creation and development of the National Edition of the Works of Cesare Zavattini. Her disciplinary interests include Public History, Film and Media Semiotics, Media Convergence, Cultural Memory and Digital Humanities, with a particular focus on the use of the latest AI technologies not only for analytical activities but also for the implementation of new communication strategies for the younger generations, keeping the Human Centered principle at the forefront.
PhD Research’s title: Cinematic Memories Online, between Participatory Culture and Digital Revolution 2
Tutor: Prof. Maria Chiara Rioli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)