Curriculum Vitae
Lara Monticelli, PhD
November 2014
Born in Mantova (Italy) in April 26th
1985
Current Position
Post-Doc at Istituto di Scienze Umane,
Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy).
Starting in February 2015 (two years
research project).
July 2014
Research Experience
Ph.D in Economic Sociology
Research Field: Labor Market Structure, Employment Social Policies, Labor
Sociology, Temporary Work and its Social Consequences, Youth Occupational
Conditions and Political Participation, School-to-Work Transitions.
PhD Thesis Title: “Climbers or prisoners? A study on Italian graduates’
occupational trajectories using Sequence Analysis”.
PhD Thesis Supervisor: Professor Emilio Reyneri, Professor in Sociology of
Work, Bicocca University, Milan, Italy.
September 2011 – June 2014
LOCALISE EU Research Project, Local worlds of social cohesion
7th Framework Programme EU
Italian team, based in Bocconi University, Milan.
Coordinator Prof. Paolo R. Graziano
www.localise-research.eu
Position: Junior Assistant Researcher
Radical changes in the local governance of social cohesion in many Member States
of the European Union are the focus of LOCALISE's research on the
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organisational challenges of an integrated social and employment policy.
LOCALISE project integrates multiple disciplines and partners experienced in
European and Social Policy research. I was charged to edit Work Packages 6 and
7 about interventions’ level of individualization and active policies at local level
for the Italian case-study. I also conducted the relative field work (semi-structured
interviews to public employment service case-workers and job-seekers).
October 2010 – October 2011
BLOW UP SENIOR Research Project,
Arci association (Associazione Ricreativa Culturale Italiana)
Mantova, Italy
Position: Co-principal Investigator
I was part of a team of researchers encharged by local direction of Arci (the
biggest social- cultural association in Italy) to write a report on the services and
functioning of three main italian civil associations: Acli, Arci and Auser. The
analysis was focused on socially relevant services provided to elderly people in the
associations considered. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used for the
research. (Forthcoming publication).
February 2010 – September 2010
BLOW UP Research Project,
Arci association (Associazione ricreativa culturale italiana)
Mantova, Italy
Position: Co-principal Investigator
I was part of a team of researchers encharged by the local direction of Arci (the
biggest social- cultural association in Italy) to write a report on local youth cultural
needs and the perception they have about cultural offer provided by these
territorial youth circles. We used qualitative techniques and structured
questionnaires in order to construct a quantitative SPSS database.
July 2009 – August 2011
YOUNEX EU Research Project, Youth, unemployment and social
exclusion
7th Framework Programme EU
Italian team, based in Bocconi University
Coordinator Prof. Simone Baglioni
www.younex.unige.ch
Position: Intern (first 6 months), Junior Assistant Researcher (till August 2011)
The YOUNEX project is a research project financed by European Commission in
the field of Seventh framework program. Project’s main goal is to investigate how
precariousness and long term unemployment affect social involvement among
young population.
The project has been conceived as a comparison between six different countries
with different socio-political institutions and working conditions.
I followed different steps of the project : institutional, organizational analysis,
interviews and qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis of the database using
SPSS. I wrote my Master dissertation on project’s topics.
June – July 2009
Research Assistant for Prof. Paolo Graziano
Bocconi University, Milan
Position: Junior Researcher
I collaborated with Prof. Paolo R. Graziano conducting some interviews for two
projects. One project was about european cohesion policy, for which I
interviewed some governmental and institutional actors mainly in Rome, and the
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second project was about family conciliation policies in Italy for which I focused
on both social and institutional stakeholders (ministries, political parties, labor
unions).
Education and International Experience
January -February 2013
Visiting Researcher at SCORE (Stockholm Centre for Organizational
Research).
Stockholm University, Stockholm
Research activity on individualization of interventions in active policies
implementation in collaboration with Prof. Christina Garsten.
January 2011 – July 2014
Enrolled in PhD in Economic Sociology. University of Brescia (Italy)
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Emilio Reyneri. Research interests: labor sociology,
school-to-work transitions, labor market related social policies, temporary work,
youth unemployment issues, qualitative and quantitative research methods.
September 2007- March 2010
Master in Economics and Social Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan.
Dissertation title: 'Status of Employment and Political Involvement. The Case
Study of Turin’s Young Population'.
Field: Labour sociology.
Tutor: Prof. Sandro Roventi, Discussant: Prof. Paolo Graziano
Final grade: 107/110
January – July 2009
January – February 2009
July – August 2006
September 2004- July 2007
June 2004
Exchange program at Institut de Sciences Politiques (Sciences-Po) Paris,
France.
Campus Abroad at Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Monetary Policy lectures.
Campus Abroad at NYU, New York University, USA.
Public programmes and policies evaluation lectures and case studies.
Bachelor in public administration and international institutions
management, Bocconi University, Milan.
Dissertation title: 'Water: right or economic good? A critical analysis'.
Field: sociology, political science.
Tutor: Prof. Sandro Roventi
Final grade: 107/110
Scientific high school diploma.
Liceo Scientifico Belfiore, Mantova.
Final grade: 100/100
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Extra Curricular Seminars
- Seminar in 'Social Psicology' Ispi institute, Milan.
- Seminar in 'Social Europe: EU policies'. Ispi institute, Milan.
- Seminar in 'Economy and sustainable growth' Ispi institute, Milan.
- Seminar in Chinese culture and language. Bocconi University, Milan.
- Study of Chinese language (writing, grammar, listening), Oxford Institute,
Mantova, Italy.
Summer – Winter Schools
- GESIS Spring Seminar, Course in Comparative Research with Confirmatory Factor
Analysis and Structural Equation Models. Lecturers: Prof. Peter Schmidt and Prof.
Eldad Davidov. GESIS Research Centre, Cologne, Germany. 5-9 March 2012.
- ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques, Course in Tapping time:
Optimal matching and Sequence Analysis. Lecturer: Prof. Philippe Blanchard.
University of Wien. 11-18 February 2012.
- Equalsoc, ECSR and University of Trento joint 3 rd Summer School Poverty,
Deprivation and Social Exclusion, Congress Centre Panorama, Trento (IT) September
2011.
- CETRO (Centre for Europeanization and Trasnational Regulations), 3rd Summer
School, Title The Governance of Employment and Activation Policies, Oldenburg
Univeristy (GE), August 2011.
- Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, course in Measurement
instruments in Survey Research, University of Essex, Colchester (UK), July 2011.
- Summer School SISP in Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Milan University (IT),
June 2011.
Conferences and Workshops
- 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE).
Northwestern University (Chicago, USA). June, 10-12th, 2014.
-‘Political Participation and Beyond. Multi-‐level dynamics of inclusion/exclusion in times of
crisis’, ESA Research Network 32 (Political Sociology) 2nd Midterm Conference,
Nov 30th-1st Dec, 2012, University of Milan (IT).
- ‘Youth Precarious Employment: State and Policy Responses’, ESRC Seminar Series,
September 21st 2012, University of Greenwich (UK).
- 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), June
28-30 2012 , Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT (Boston, USA).
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- ‘Causes of Precarious Work amongst Young People’, ESRC Seminar Series, September
23rd 2011, University of Warwick (UK).
- 'Annual Conference AIEL', Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro’ auditor,
September, 2011, Università Cattolica, Milano (IT).
-3-Länder-Tagung Politische Integration, Workshop 18 'Politische Integration,
Arbeitslosigkeit und Prekariat', January 13-14th , 2011, Basel (CH).
Working Papers presented at Conferences
Workshops
and
1. ‘Climbers or prisoners of the labour market? A study on Italian graduates’ occupational
trajectories using Sequence Analysis.’ 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). Northwestern University (Chicago,
USA). June, 10-12th 2014. Co-author Prof. R. Piccarreta (Bocconi University).
2. ‘Spaces of civic involvement and mutual help: the case of elderly oriented associations. A
comparison between ARCI, ACLI and AUSER’, ESA 2nd Midterm Conference,
University of Milan (IT). Dec 2012. Co-author M. Carlino.
3. ‘Precarious and active youth. The impact of occupational status on political participation’.
24th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
(SASE). MIT (Boston, USA). June 2012. Co-author M. Bassoli.
4. 'Occupational status and political participation among the young people in Turin', 3Länder- Tagung Politische Integration, Workshop 18 «Politische Integration,
Arbeitslosigkeit und Prekariat», Basilea, January 2011. Co-author M. Bassoli.
5. 'The political attitude of precarious youth in modern societies: a quantitative approach.' 6th
ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, University of Iceland, August 2011. Coauthor M. Bassoli.
6. 'The political attitude of precarious youth in modern societies: a quantitative approach'. Coauthor M. Bassoli. CETRO Summer School, August 2011.
7. 'Social exclusion in EU: the effects of unemployment and precarious working conditions on
youth health and well-being in Turin, Geneva and Lyon' (co-authored with Simone
Baglioni) EQUALSOC, ECSR and University of Trento Summer School,
September 2011.
Publications
1. Book 'I circoli giovanili ARCI nella provincia di Mantova: cultura, socialità, volontariato',
Co-authorship with M. Bassoli and C. Pincella, Publication Editor Franco Angeli,
2012, Rome.
2. Chapter 'Laureati, precari e politicamente attivi. L’impatto del lavoro e della scuola sulle
forme della partecipazione', co-authorship with M. Bassoli, in Book La ricerca sociologica
e i temi del lavoro. Giovani ricercatori a confronto, Sociologia del Lavoro', 2012, Franco
Angeli Edizioni, Special Issue on current debate on Italian labor market.
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Papers Submitted, Under Review
1. Paper ‘Not only protest. The political participation of precarious urban youth’. Co-author
M. Bassoli. Submitted at International Journal of Comparative Sociology (IJCS) and now
under authors’ revision.
2. Paper ‘The Political Participation of Precarious and Unemployed Youth. The case of Turin’.
Co-author M. Bassoli. Submitted to the journal Political Behaviour.
Research Reports
1. Work package 3, Younex Project ‘Integrated Report on in-depth qualitative interviews’,
Italian case-study, October 2009.
2. Work package 6, Localise project, ‘The Individualization of Interventions’, Italian
case-study, January 2014.
3. Work package 7, Italian case-study, ‘The impact of integrated approach to social
cohesion’, Localise project, February 2014.
IT Skills
Good Knowledge of Windows Package , Explorer, Mozilla.
Very good use of Office applications.
Good use of data analysis software STATA, SPSS, Latent Gold, R.
Language Skills
Italian, mother tongue.
English, fluent spoken and written. (IELTS Overall score band 7.0).
French fluent spoken and written, C1 level (DALF certificate)
Polish discrete comprehension and elementary spoken.
Mantova, 27-11-2014
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