Arrigoni Luca Maria 

PhD student with an academic background in sociology of communication and media studies. My research focuses on political misinformation and media consumption, with particular interest in media diets, affective polarization, and visual misinformation in hybrid media systems.

Tutor: prof. Mario QUARANTA

De Magalhaes Cutrim Raphael

PhD candidate interested in education inequality studies, comparative analysis, and public policies.  
 
My research focuses on the context of late separation of high-income countries in Europe to assess the role of parents' age as a moderator of the separation effect on child educational outcomes. Specifically, my project combines longitudinal and multilevel approaches to conduct comparative and country-case analyses.

Tutor: prof Ruud LUJKX

Maneschi Maria Antonietta

PhD candidate interested in labour and migration studies, social movements, collective action, democracy, and public policies. I graduated in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris. I worked in research in both public and private institutions, to then join the PhD programme. I am currently part of the research project Lumine (FIS2). 

Research proposal: Labour Unions, Migrant Workers and Ethnic Inequalities in the Agricultural sector, I analyse collective action and networks for migrant farmworkers' rights through a comparative analysis between Italy and France.

Tutor: prof. Katia Pilati

Manfrin Niccolò

PhD student interested in cognitive sociology, cultural sociology, affect studies, and social phenomenology. My current research investigates the diffusion of tennis as a cultural practice in contemporary Italy, with a particular focus on the link between individual embodied experience and environmental-cultural patterns. My approach involves a combination of ethnography, focus groups, and document analysis. 

Research proposal: Culture, Cognition and Affect in the Experience of Amateur Tennis Practitioners

Tutor: prof. Chiara BASSETTI

Lovato Valentina

PhD student with an academic background in EU welfare systems and social policy. My current interests lie at the intersection of organisation studies and embodiment research. My project investigates how contemporary organisations conceptualise and discipline bodies, with particular attention to social enterprises. I examine how implicit models of the “ideal worker” become embedded in organisational practices, shaping embodied experiences of work, strain, and recovery, and how these dynamics intersect with individual characteristics and broader institutional contexts. 

Tutor: prof. Attila BRUNI

Vergara Virginia

PhD student interested in exploring gender-based and intimate partner violence among adolescents through participatory and creative methodologies. My work focuses on the use of a co-designed role-playing game as a methodological tool to investigate socially constructed narratives of teen dating violence, drawing on symbolic interactionist perspectives. 

Research proposal: Relationships at Play: A Participatory Path to Preventing Teen Dating Violence

Tutor: prof. Barbara POGGIO Co-tutor: prof. Chiara BASSETTI (Unitn)

Viggiano Rossella

PhD candidate with a background in Economics and experience as research assistant and statistics officer.

My research interests mainly regard the theoretical, empirical and methodological inquiry into social mobility and inequality, as well as the comparative study of social stratification processes with quantitative methods. Specifically, my research project investigates gender and class stratification in education and school-to-work transition from a EU comparative perspective. 

Tutor: prof. Stefani SCHERER

Zappa Jacopo Leonardo

PhD student interested in intergenerational processes of transmission of dis/advantages. Specifically, my research focuses on the intersection between household resources, childrearing practices and the development of gendered and classed health-related lifestyles from early childhood to early adulthood. Theoretically, I mainly draw from a Neobourdieusian perspective combined with insights from life course theory, while methodologically I rely on a quantitative approach. 

Tutor: prof. Raffaele GROTTI