Alumni

Thesis title: The International Politics of Digital Development: A multi-method analysis of ICT infrastructure and policies in Africa.

Stephanie Arnold is an advisor to the Data Economy Team of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), the German agency for development cooperation. Her work is part of the Team Europe Action “Data Governance in Africa” and focuses on enhancing the use of data for socio-economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Thesis title: How To Get Away with Genocide in the 21st Century: Contesting and Hollowing Out the Norm Cluster on the Prohibition of Genocide

Cecilia Ducci is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna, working on the PRIN project "Recasting the national interest in Europe: Institutions, politics and policies for the defense of critical infrastructures and supply chains" headed by Prof. Francesco Niccolò Moro. Her research interests include genocide, mass atrocities, IR theories, norm contestation, AI and emerging technologies.

Thesis title: Grassroots initiatives to counter corruption in Italy and Spain. The role of informative practices through digital media in increasing transparency.

Alice Fubini is a Research Fellow at the University of Bologna, Department of Political and Social Sciences. She is a member of the research team of the Horizon Europe funded project RESPOND - Rescuing Democracy from Political Corruption in Digital Societies.

Thesis title: European Policies and scientific research: the case of Italian Public Universities analyzed through their outputs, outcomes, performances and policy instruments.

 Elisabetta Boglich is research manager in the research and grant office of the University of Trieste. She is a senior expert in European projects and funds and in project drafting techniques. She is also member of the grant office of the European Alliance "Transform for Europe" to which Units belongs.

Thesis title: The extent to which macro-economic conditions affect the party-policy linkage. 

Giorgia Borgnino is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Siena. She is currently working on a project investigating the socio-economic, environmental  and politico-institutional vulnerability of Italian territories (UNVEIL project).

Thesis title: In-work poverty: when the context makes the difference. An analysis of the influence of living costs on poverty and social exclusion perceptions of Italian in-work poor.

Claudia Colombarolli is a postdoctoral researcher in Economic Sociology and Labour Studies in the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society at the University of Turin. Her main research interests engage with social and territorial inequalities, focusing on the multidimensionality of poverty and labour market disadvantages.

Thesis title: Asylum adjudications in lower courts: an insight into the daily work of Italian and French judges.

Alice Lacchei is a Research Fellow at the University of Bologna, Department of Political and Social Sciences. She is a member of the research team of the Erc funded project ACCESS – Gatekeepers to International Refugee Law? – The Role of Courts in Shaping Access to Asylum.

Thesis title: International Migration and Political Stability Under A Rational Choice Perspective. 

Nicola Palma is an Economic Researcher at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health.

Thesis title: The Holy war and (armchair) warriors: how do political discussions on the Internet affect protest activity in authoritarian regimes?

Aidar Zinnatullin is a research assistant (post-doc) at the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau). He is working on a BMBF-funded project, StraKoSim, which investigates the strategic communication of scientific uncertainties in societal debates and their influence on political decision-making.

Thesis title: Cleavage Politics in Changing Times. Political Realignment Processes in Western European Countries

Right after delivering the PhD dissertation, Andrea joined BVA Doxa as Data Scientist in November 2021. He is involved in panel management, survey implementation and data analysis. He has been leading innovations in data quality controls, probabilistic panel recruiment methods, synthetic data analysis and passive data analysis since mid-2023.

Thesis title The EU, Russia, Turkey and China in the Western Balkans: challenges and prospects for European Union's foreign policy

After the PhD, Carlotta joined the Department of Social, Political, and Cognitive Sciences-DISPOC of the University of Siena as post-doctoral research fellow. In Siena, she worked on themes connected to the European Union Foreign and Security Policy, within the H2020 Project "JOINT-a joined-up Union, a stronger Union". She recently joined the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna as post-doctoral research fellow.

Thesis title: Crawling from abroad: understanding the integration paths of immigrant-origin youths in Japan

After her Ph.D., Giulia joined the Department of Statistical Studies "Paolo Fortunati" of the University of Bologna as a post-doc research fellow, where she conducted research on social stratification and inequalities in Italy, with a focus on national geographic discrepancies. She also started teaching Sociology of Asian Countries as an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Languages, University of Bologna, focusing on the Chinese and Japanese contexts. Recently, she has joined once again the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the same university as post-doctoral fellow, where she is now researching on immigrants' school segragation.