Alicia Chiodi

PhD student interested in Risk-taking, Fun and Emotions in the domain of Lifestyle Sports, approached drawing from Cultural Interactionism and Carnal Sociology with Ethnographic, Creative and Visual Research Methods.

Research proposal: Risk-taking in Times of Climate Change. An Ethnography of Mountaineering

Supervisors: Andrea Cossu (Unitn); Chiara Bassetti (Unitn)

Mariya Lenko

PhD student interested in earnings trajectories, couple formation, within-couple economic inequalities, partner effect and well-being of the couple members. Life course research, quantitative methods, social simulations (ABM). 

Research proposal:  Economic Inequalities within Couples across the Life Course: Mechanisms and Trajectories  

Supervisors: Stefani Scherer (Unitn); Flaminio Squazzoni (Unimi)

External collaboration: This PhD project includes a 12-month stay at the Beahave Lab (Unimi) 

Flavia Mazzeo

PhD student intersted in couples, fertility, union dissolution, social demography, gender and social inequalities.

Research proposal: Within couples' economic inequalities and family demographic processes: a life course perspective

Supervisors: Nicole Hiekel (MPIDR);  Agnese Vitali (Unitn)

External collaboration: This PhD project is part of a collaboration with the MPIDR (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research).

Ben Scane

PhD student interested in Work-life balance; Social networks; Time use and activity patterns; Well-being and satisfaction; Work-family balance

Research proposal: The Social Lives of the Post-Pandemic Teleworker

Supervisors: Ruud Luijkx (Unitn); Filip Agneessens (University of Manchester)

External Collaboration: This PhD project is in cotutelle de thèse with Tilburg University.

Julia Tena Mensa

PhD student interested in Alternative food systems; Working conditions; Sociology of food; Social inequalities; Participatory approaches; Commons

Research proposal: Understanding Farmers' Working Conditions in Alternative Food Networks

Supervisors: Chiara Bassetti (Unitn); Maurizio Teli (Aalborg University); Filip Majetic (Ivo Pilar Institute)

International mobility: January - June 2025: Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar (Zagreb, Croatia)
Tbd (2026): Department of Sustainability and Planning, Aalborg University

External collaborations: This PhD project is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network Reworlding (https://reworlding.eu/)

Marco Pernarella

PhD student interested in Social movements; Knowledge dissemination; Digital Methods; Quali-quantitative Methods; Epistemic justice; Environmental and climate justice movements;

Research proposal: Knowledge spreading within and beyond the transnational environmental justice movement: an epistemic justice approach

Supervisors: Elena Pavan (Unitn)