Institutional description
The University of Turin is a public university focused on higher education, scientific research, and international academic cooperation. It offers undergraduate, master’s, doctoral, and postgraduate programs in many disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, law, medicine, natural sciences, agriculture, and economics. The university is organized into multiple departments that combine teaching activities with research in their specific academic fields.
Research and innovation are central to the university’s mission. Its academic staff and research groups participate in national and international research projects, produce scientific publications, and collaborate with public institutions and businesses. The university also promotes technology transfer, patents, and spin-off initiatives to apply scientific knowledge to real-world problems.
The institution maintains a strong international orientation through partnerships with universities and organizations worldwide, joint degree programs, and international PhD opportunities. It also supports student and researcher mobility and contributes to cultural, social, and economic development through education, research, and community engagement.
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Researchers
Claudio Longobardi, PhD, is Full Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Turin (Italy), Department of Psychology. His research addresses socio-emotional development and mental health in educational contexts, with a focus on relational processes, inclusion, and risk and protective factors across childhood and adolescence. He has extensive experience in supervising early-stage researchers and in coordinating and participating in international and EU-funded research and training projects.
https://www.dippsicologia.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?claudio.longobardi#tab-profilo
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Margherita Rossi, PhD Candidate in Social and Community Psychology, University of Turin
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5522-2458
- Margherita Rossi is a second-year PhD candidate in Social and Community Psychology at the University of Turin. Since her Master’s degree, her work has focused on intercultural relations, integration, and cultural psychology. After graduation, she was awarded two research grants that allowed her to deepen her work in these areas. Along with a prior working experience in the field, these experiences helped shape the focus of her current PhD project. Her current research examines the role of intercultural mediation in promoting social inclusion. She studies processes of resilience, empowerment, and social generativity within the experiences of intercultural mediators, using qualitative and community-based approaches grounded in community psychology.
- Margherita Rossi is a second-year PhD candidate specialized in cultural psychology and community-based research. Her doctoral project explores the role of intercultural mediators in promoting social inclusion, specifically investigating how empowerment and resilience-driven practices contribute to social generativity and community integration.
Full Professor, Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Turin
https://informatica.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Show?_id=vpatti#tab-profilo
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1533-s9W1Y8MPluFJsNl3fR45UWv5-Kje3q7yikkAHyY/edit?usp=sharing
Stella Pinna Pintor, Research Fellow at University of Turin, Department of Cultures, Politics and Society
PhD in Social and Political Change at UniTo and UniFi. My main research area is Sociology of Migration and the processes related to the socio-economic inclusion of foreign citizens and migrants, with a focus on education and labor.
https://www.dcps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?stella.pinnapintor#tab-profilo
Anna Miglietta is Associate Professor of Social and Community Psychology at the University of Turin (Italy).
For over 20 years she has conducted research on immigration and intergroup relations. Her work focuses on factors that promote or hinder immigrant integration, identity negotiation, perceived discrimination and well-being, attitudes towards immigration and cultural diversity, social inclusion and community empowerment.
Dario Elia Tosi is associate professor in Comparative Public Law at the University of Turin, Law Department. He teaches courses on Comparative Public law, Constitutional Law, Public Law and Economics, and Fundamental Rights in Europe. He is the Rector’s Delegate for the development of international relations with France and Francophones Countries and academic coordinator of different exchange programmes (double bachelor’s degrees and master’s programmes). He is the scientific coordinator of a Jean Monnet Module on Fundamental rights and is the European Documentation Center at IUSE. He is also the coordinator of different research groups and activities on issues related to the European integration process
https://www.giurisprudenza.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Show?_id=dtosi#tab-profilo
Roberta Ricucci is a Full Professor at the University of Turin (Italy), Department of Culture, Politics and Society, where she teaches Sociology of Islam and Sociology of Migration. Her recent research has focused on Migrations in Europe , second generations and Muslims, their identity-building processes and religiosity, particularly in migratory contexts, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. On these and related topics, she has published extensively in international journals and books. She has extensive research experience in religion and immigration, leading projects at both national and international levels. These studies have been planned and funded in part thanks to research connections established during numerous periods spent at international universities, including Princeton (Department of Sociology, NJ, US), Monash (Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, Australia), and Notre Dame (Centre for the Study of Religion and Society, IN, US).
https://www.didattica-cps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?roberta.ricucci#tab-profilo