Current Occupation
Early Career Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Leverhulme ECF working on the project “Can Language Heal Society? Language Rights in Peacebuilding and Decolonisation”
Academic Experience
Postdoc Fellow at the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Researcher for the HEA North-South funded project “”Migrant and Employer Strategies post Brexit in an all-island economy”, in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast.
Postdoc Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Researcher for “TEAMS: Teaching that Matters for Migrant Students”, a project conducted by teams of researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh, Jyväskylä, Stockholm and Turku, supported by the NordForsk British-Nordic research programme
Part Time Lecturer at the School of Law Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Lecturer in International Law of Armed Conflict
Research Assistant at Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Within the project “Populating an Index of Linguistic Justice”, funded by Esperantic Studies Foundation (USA) and managed by Dr Michele Gazzola and Dr Mark Fettes. The project aimed at testing indicators of linguistic justice by collecting secondary data and carrying out robustness analysis.
Education
PhD in Applied Social and Policy Sciences at Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2023)
Title of the dissertation “A Multidimensional Index of Linguistic Justice” (Advisors: Dr Michele Gazzola, Dr Gordon Marnoch, Dr Brian Carey)
Master’s Degree in European and International Studies at the University of Trento, Italy (2018)
Title of the dissertation: “Education and Identities of Minorities: The Case of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel” (Advisor: Prof Jens Woelk)
Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Pavia, Italy (2014)
Title of the dissertation: “The Human Development Index: theories, applications,
and critiques (Advisor: Prof Michele Rostan)
Further Academic Training
Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale ISPI, Milano, Italy
• Diploma in Humanitarian Emergencies and Interventions, 2021
Venice International University, Venice, Italy, 2018
• Certificate in European Project Management
University of Haifa, Israel
• Erasmus ICM+ study abroad, 2016
• Thesis abroad, 2017
Center for Comparative Conflict Studies, Belgrade, Serbia, 2017
• Summer School “Rethinking Peace Education: The Work of Identity and Culture in Conflict Ridden Societies”
Honours and Awards
Marjorie Boulton Fellowships 2023
Funded by Esperantic Studies Foundation, the Fellowship grants $10,000 USD award to support scholarly research and publication in linguistic justice and/or Esperantic studies.
DTA3/ COFUND PhD Fellowship, 2019
Doctoral training initiative in Applied Biosciences for Health, Energy and Social Policy, with the support of a €6.5 million grant from the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD Fellowship programme.
“Premio di Merito”, University of Trento, 2018
Award granted to excellent graduates from the University of Trento.
Teaching Experience
Guest Lecturer at Ulster University in the module of International Social Policy (2 lectures, 40 students), 2021
2021- Guest Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin in the module of Political Philosophy (1 lecture, 30 students), 2021
Seminar Facilitator at Ulster University, 2019- 2023
• Introduction to Government and Public Policy (2 cohorts, 60 students)
• Social Justice and the Welfare State in a Precarious World (50 students)
• Sentencing and Punishment (60 students)
• Research Methods for Criminology (half semester, 50 students)
• Contemporary Culture and Social Change (60 students)
Professional Experience
Social Worker and Legal Officer in a Refugee Reception Centre at the Associazione Verein Volontarius ONLUS, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
December 2018- May 2019
Civil Servant at Agenzia Casa ONLUS- Social Housing, Lucca, Italy
March 2018- August 2018
Languages
Native: Italian
Fluent: English
Intermediate: Spanish
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