Lorenzo Bernabei

PhD student interested in the relationship between technological change and a variety of worker and occupation-level outcomes, focusing on heterogeneities across settings and social groups. I use a theory-driven empirical approach that combines economic and sociological perspectives to address my research questions.  

Research proposal: Unboundling technological change: how technologies shape contemporary social structures, occupations and inequalities

Suprevisor: Paolo Barbieri (Unitn)

Anna Caprinali

PhD student interested in gender studies and demography, using an interdisciplinary approach to investigate potential inequalities arising

Research proposal: Divergent trajectories? Educational stratification and life opportunities of non-heterosexual students

Supervisor: Agnese Vitali (Unitn)

Ester Gubert

PhD student intersted in examining people's experiences with accessing and benefitting from social welfare policies, such as long-term care policies for older people, social inclusion policies for people with mental health issues, and policies to combat poverty.

Research proposal: Understanding how policies intersect with care poverty. Local comparisons of care trajectories in Italian long-term care policies for older people.

Supervisor: Cristiano Gori (Unitn)

Valeria Rainero

PhD student interested in Sociology of Religion; Secularization; Science and Religion; Values in Science; (Non-)Religious Bias; Survey Methodology

Research proposal: Investigating the Scientific Controversy on Religious Change: A Perspective on its Scholarship and Academic Production

Supervisor: Ruud Luijkx (Tilburg University)