Research areas and doctoral projects

RESEARCH AREAS

The programme has a teaching staff made up of scholars from various disciplines (general sociology, economic sociology, sociology of work and organisations; sociology of cultural processes, education and communication; sociology of the family; sociology of welfare and migration; sociology of development; research methodology; economic policy, anthropological disciplines), most of whom belong to the Sociology Department of Università Cattolica. Each of them is involved in important national and international research networks, as well as in the professions and the third mission. A number of professors from foreign universities are also members of the college.

Therefore, students have the opportunity to carry out their doctoral project in one of the many fields of research for which they will find support among the lecturers of the college, including:

• social theory
• generative studies
• economic and organisational processes
• labour and labour market
• labour and human resources policies
• platform economy
• migration and integration processes
• communication and new media
• cultural processes
• fashion studies
• learning systems and processes
• inclusive and intercultural education
• disability studies
• family
• welfare and social policies
• family impact analysis of policies
• health
• cooperation and development
• public policy and evaluation
• social and cultural anthropology
• women's studies
• food studies.

DOCTORAL RESEARCH PROJECTS

In recent years, the students have developed doctoral projects on innovative and often state-of-the-art topics