University of Turin
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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Team members
Principal Investigator
Roberta Ricucci
Full Professor
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).
Researchers
Anna Miglietta
Associate Professor
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.
Claudio Longobardi
Full Professor
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.
Dario Elia Tosi
Assistant Professor
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
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.
Martina Tazzara
PhD Candidate
Martina Tazzara has PhD candidate in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research (SOMET), currently working on environmental justice and green gentrification through qualitative, experimental, and participatory research methods, with an attention to intersectional perspectives. My broader research interests include higher education, social inclusion, urban inequalities, youth studies, political movements, and cultural practices.
Roberta Francesco Scalon
PhD Candidate
Roberto Francesco Scalon (PhD in Sociology and Social Research, 2004) is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Torino, where he teaches both Sociology and Sociology of Education. Since 2020 he is member of the Scientific Committee of Master in “Religious Sciences and Intercultural Mediation” based at the University of Torino, where he holds the course “Atheism and West irreligion”. Since 2023/2024 he teaches Sociology of Religion at the Catholic Theological Faculty of Northern Italy in Torino. He was visiting fellow at the Wilhelm von Humboldt University of Berlin (2017) where he focused on the Hans Joas social theory approach. As a Visiting Professor he delivered lectures at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. He is member of both the Italian Sociological Association and the International Association for Critical Realism; since 2020 he is territorial coordinator (northern-western Italy) of the “Sociologia per la Persona” association. Since 2021 he is both coordinator of the Interdepartmental Centre CRAFT (Contemporary Religious and Faiths in Transitions) by the University of Torino and Scientific secretary of the Augusto Del Noce Foundation (Centre for Philosophical Studies) based in Savigliano and Torino.
Stella Pinna Pintor
PhD
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.
Viviana Patti
Full Professor
Viviana Patti is full professor at the Department of Computer Science of University of Turin, head of the PhD program in Computer Science, and member of the scientific committee of the Interdepartmental Centre for Logic, Language and Cognition since its foundation. She is president of the Guarantee Committee of the University of Turin. She has been vice-president of the board of directors of the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC) (2022-2025), vice-president of the master’s degree program in Language Technologies and Digital Humanities and vice-coordinator of the inter-athenaeum second-level master HumanAIze, designed to integrate humanistic competences with those necessary to participate in the processes of technological innovation linked to the increasingly pervasive use of AI.