Italy and France 2020 – ongoing  Hub Green Ports (HGP) started in early 2020 while Italy was being cought by the first wave of the pandemic. I first joined HGP during its design phase, initiated by the consulting firm LattanzioKIBS. The idea of the project came to us after a scoping survey that wanted to explore needs of citizens living…

Economic life in (post) conflict Afghanistan   – Afghanistan, 2013-2019 SLRC is a 8-country research programme led by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and funded by the European Commission and the UK Department For International Development (DFID). It aims to provide research based evidence on how people access basic services and livelihoods under conflict. While leading the Afghan country team…

– Australia, 2009-2012 The research project was part of a PhD programme I conducted with the Department of Sociology, University of Padua and Bologna. Building on ethnographic data, I investigated cultural conflicts and negotiations that migrant families from India and Pakistan living in Sidney face in their daily life.

The global HIV/AIDS epidemic on the cusp of the fourth decad – Ukraine, 2012 The reportage realized by photojournalist Nanni Fontana – and funded by the World Health Organization – wanted to provide an overlook on the state of the art in curing and preventing HIV/AIDS around the globe through 5 country studies. I contributed as researcher and content editor…

– Lebanon, 2010 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) implemented a World Bank funded project that introduced the reuse of treated wastewater in agriculture in the El Beqaa Valley. My role as awareness specialist covered the analysis of the needs of farmers and end users and, consequently, the design of a communication campaign. I ultimately worked…

– Italy, 2007-2009 While working for the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei I have been involved in a research programme investigating the potential of Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies as mitigation option to Climate Change. My work was focused on understanding the social perception of risks related to the use of these technologies in the European Union.

– Uganda, 2006 The objective of the project, led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was to contribute to the establishment of a common and shared knowledge at the Nile Basin Level I worked on the design of an information package on integrated water resources management in the region, targeting the role of civil society and…

-Italy, 2005-2006 The project – funded by the European Commission and managed by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) – focussed on the establishment of a network of actors belonging to science, policy and civil society that could improve governance and policy planning in sustainable water management in the Mediterranean Basin. While working with FEEM, I conducted research on gender roles…

– India, 2004 The research project was focussing on the implications of the construction of the Tehri Dam, on the upper stream of the Ganges River, for the population of the displaced villages. While based in New Dehli with a National NGO, led by the environmentalist Vandana Shiva, I conducted fieldwork interviewing rural communities, environmental activists and government officials. I…