The Team

Current Staff

Stefani Scherer (PI) is professor in Sociology at Trento University, Italy.
She holds a PhD from Mannheim University (Dr. phil), Germany. Her main research interests are inequality and social stratification processes in international comparative perspective, the analysis of life courses, the family and labour market dynamics.
She has been working in several international comparative projects. Among other things she was a member of the network of excellence EQUALSOC (www. equalsoc.org) and the CHANGEQUAL project, both funded by the EC. From 1997-2002 she was research fellow at the Mannheimer Zentrum fuer Europaeische Sozialforschung (MZES, www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de), Germany, and had her post-doc at Milan-Bicocca before joining Trento University in 2007.
She currently coordinates the PhD programme in Sociology within the School in Social Science at Trento University (http://www.unitn.it/en/drss-srs/16300/sociology-and-social-research). She is teaching courses on the BA, MA and PhD level on statistics and applied research methods as well as a course on family sociology.
Topics: Social Inequelities, Sociology of Family, Labour Market and Education, Life Course Analysis, Demographic Change, Quantitative Methods

 

Paolo Barbieri

Paolo Barbieri is professor in Economic Sociology at Trento University.
He holds a PhD from the University of Trento and has been working for several years at Milan-Bicocca University, before coming back to Trento in 2007. His main research interests are concerned with welfare and labour market in a comparative perspective. He has been working on labour market related themes such as atypical employment, transitions from school to work, self employment and new forms of solo-self employment. Other research interests involve networks and social capital, status attainment processes, network analysis techniques applied to economic sociology issues and labour market behaviours as well as to social participation, quality of life and generalised trust.
He is currently the vice director of the School in Social Science (http://www.unitn.it/en/drss) at Trento University, and associate editor of the European Sociologica Review (http://esr.oxfordjournals.org/).
Paolo has been member of various national and international research teams. Among other things he coordinated projects on: “the social consequences of labour market flexibilisation in different welfare regimes” and on “changing work and family” within the network of excellence EQUALSOC (www.equalsoc.org) and has been member of the board of the European Consortium of Sociological Research ECSR (http://www.ecsrnet.eu/). 
Topics: Welfare and labour Market studies, Social Theory and Social Capital, Comparative studies.

Giorgio Cutuli

Giorgio Cutuli, PhD, is assistent professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of Trento University.
He was member of EQUALSOC Network of Excellence. 
Main research interests include social stratification, labour markets, income and inequality dynamics.
Topics: Social Stratification, Economic Sociology, Labour Market, Longitudinal Analysis.

 

 

 

Raffaele Guetto

Raffaele Guetto is research fellow at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milano-Bicocca, where he is involved in research activities within the Horizon 2020 "GEMM" (Growth, Equal Opportunities, Migration, Markets) project. He holds a PhD from the University of Trento, where his doctoral dissertation has been awarded as best PhD thesis in Sociology (2011-2012) and he taught courses on the BA and MA level on social policy, education and social inequality. His main research interests include the structural and cultural determinants of female labour market participation and family behaviours, immigration, welfare and labour market studies and social stratification. Since 2009 he has been member of the EQUALSOC Network of Excellence.

Raffaele Grotti

Raffaele Grotti, PhD in Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento, is now post doctoral research fellow at ESRI in Dublin, Ireland.  His research areas are social and economic inequalities, income dynamics, welfare and labour market studies in comparative perspective, quantitative methods, Stata programming and graphics.

Giampiero Passaretta, PhD in Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento, is now post doctoral research fellow at the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.  He obtained a MA in Sociology with distinction from the university of Milano-Bicocca. His research interests include transition from education to labour market, comparative sociology and quantitative methods of data analysis.

 

 

Adriano Cataldo is a PhD Candidate in Sociology and Social Research at the School of Social Sciences (University of Trento) and currently works at the camera di commercio of Bozen. He has previously worked as research assistant at the Euricse Foundation (Trento, Italy) and at the Sonderforschungbereich 804 (Dresden University of Technology, Germany). He has two MAs in Sociology (University of Trento and Dresden University of Technology).
Topics: family sociology, household economics, labour market, gender inequality, demography, family policies. 

Mattia Oliviero PhD student in Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento. His research interest include family sociology, demography and migration. His PhD thesis focuses on the determinants of fertility focusing on Italian immigrants in UK and Australia. Mattia holds a M.A. in Sociology at the University of Trento. His thesis analyzed the fertility differentials between European natives and immigrants.

 

 

Elisa Brini, is PhD Student in Sociology and Social Research at the School of Social Sciences of Trento University. She has a MA in Sociology and Social Research. Her main research interests involve family studies, social inequalities, fertility and childlessness.

Giulia Tattarini is now a PhD student at the WZB Berlin. Her research areas are health inequalities in a comparative perspective, sociology of the family, welfare and labour market studies and quantitative methods for social science.

 

 

Former Collaborators

Rossella Bozzon, received her PhD in Sociology and Social Research in 2009 from the University of Trento. befor joining Famine she worked as research fellow at Irvapp (Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies). Her research interests focus on life course  studies, transition to adulthood, demographic and family dynamics. Rossella is currently research fellow at Trento University. 

Michele Lugo, PhD, is a statistical assistant at the Provincia autonoma di Trento (PaT). He holds a PhD from the University of Trento. His main research areas are social stratification, educational inequalities, welfare and labour market studies and quantitative methods for social science.

Giulia Torricelli, former student assistant, is a market researcher. She holds a MA with distinction in Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento. Her main research interest is the study of diffusion of innovation processes, with particualr reference to new family behaviours.​

 

Sara Dalla Bella is Post Doctoral researcher at the ICP (Institute of Public Communication), USI (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano), where she mainly works on the analysis of data coming from the FAN (Family, Physical Activity and Nutrition) project. She is a researcher at SUPSI (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland) as well, where she also teaches "Health Statistics".
Sara contributes to the project analyzing the family's role in moderating consequences of inequality on health.

Giulia Maria Dotti Sani, holds a PhD Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento.  She is currently researching the distribution of paid work and domestic chores  within Italian households and its consequences on fertility behavior and social inequalities.

Giula left FamIne for a Post Doc at Carlo Alberto, Turin and is currely Max Weber Fellow at the EUI, Fiesole.