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.

De Magalhaes Cutrim Raphael

PhD student interested in academic inequality, school systems, life course research, comparative analysis, quantitative methods, longitudinal analysis and multilevel analysis. 
 
My current research focus on the emergence of new patterns of parental divorce effect on child's education in high income European countries. Specifically, my project is a multilevel longitudinal analysis of the mechanisms of the divorce effect in the context of late divorce in UK and Germany.

Maneschi Maria Antonietta

PhD candidate interested in migration studies, political participation, social movements and collective action, democracy, and public policies. She holds a Master’s Degree from Sciences Po Paris. She worked in research in both public and private institutions, to then join the PhD programme

Research proposal: part of the research project Lumine (FIS2), she inquires into Labour Unions, Migrant Workers and Ethnic Inequalities in the agricultural sector, 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 policies. My research focuses on economic sociology, with particular interest in workplace wellbeing, welfare arrangements, and working time practices.

Vergara Virginia

PhD student interested in gender-based and teen dating violence prevention through participatory and game-based learning approaches. My research explores how co-designed role-playing games can be used as educational tools to engage adolescents in critical reflection on affective relationships.

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

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 stratification in education and school-to-work transition in a EU comparative perspective. 

Zappa Jacopo Leonardo

PhD student interested in health inequalities and food consumption patterns following a mixed-methods approach. My research focuses on regimes of social stratification concerning both dietary patterns and health-related practices/outcomes from a practice theory perspective. I combine macro-level quantitative analysis mapping social differentials in the distribution of practices/outcomes with micro-level analysis of daily barriers to the adoption of health promoting practices.