University of Bologna (UNIBO)
The University of Bologna was founded in 1088. It is one of the most renowned and prestigious universities across Europe.
The Alma Mater University of Bologna’s Department of Political and Social Sciences (DSPS) is a key reference point in the field of the political and social studies. It gathers the legacy and the tradition of several historic Alma Mater institutes, such as the former Political Science and Politics, Institutions and History Departments, the former Faculty of Political Science “R. Ruffilli”. DSPS, hence, embraces the University of Bologna’s heritage in political and social science research and teaching and unites scholars active in these fields. The Department is located in the neoclassic “Palazzo Hercolani” of the Bologna Campus and in the modern Forlì Campus. Currently the Department of Political and Social Sciences is involved in several projects under Horizon 2020, several Erasmus+ projects (Jean Monnet Actions and Key action 2 Capacity Building), a training project financed by NATO, a research project funded by European Investment bank, several projects funded by International and national donors and research organizations. In 2017 and again in 2022, the Department has been labelled “Excellent Department” in the field of Political and Social sciences by Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research and has been awarded a grant of more than 8 Million Euros in order to further enhance its excellence in research, training and raise its international profile.
Website: hhttps://www.unibo.it/en
Arianna Tassinari
Arianna Tassinari is a comparative political economist with established research expertise in industrial relations and on the topic of social dialogue and economic policymaking. In her work as a research fellow at the Institute for Employment Studies (UK), she worked on several international research projects covering industrial relations and labour market developments in the EU, funded by institutions such as DG Employment, CEDEFOP and Eurofound. She then completed her PhD in Industrial Relations in 2019 at the University of Warwick, with a thesis on social dialogue in the Eurozone periphery in the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis. Arianna has since worked as a researcher and then Assistant Professor at the European University Institute, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and the University of Bologna, conducting several research projects on topics such as the role of social dialogue, collective bargaining and industrial relations actors in the management of the Covid-19 crisis; the evolving framework of industrial relations in the European platform economy; and the role of industrial relations institutions and actors in shaping the post-crisis economic recovery across diverse EU countries.
Francesco Sabato Massino
Research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences.