Lara Maestripieri IGOPLara Maestripieri holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Research, awarded by the University of Trento (2011). She is a Serra Hunter Lecturer in Sociology of Work at the Department of Sociology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her research interests concern social change in post-industrial society, and in particular, her contributions focus on economic insecurity, social innovation in social policy, and emerging professions. Her research has primarily focused on studying youth and women as vulnerable social groups in Southern European labour markets.

CONTACT

Email: lara.maestripieri@uab.cat
Twitter: https://twitter.com/laramaest
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UAB Research Portal: https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/persons/lara-maestripieri
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4710-1653
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.it/citations?hl=it&user=y7fO_SwAAAAJ
ResearchGate Citations: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lara-Maestripieri

AREAS OF INTEREST

Public policies and intersectionality, economic insecurity in southern Europe, social innovation, emerging professions, qualitative methods.

3 SELECTED PROJECTS

3 HIGHLIGHTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Gallego R. and Maestripieri L. (2022) Women’s empowerment and social innovation in childcare: the case of Barcelona, Spain, European Societies, (online first) https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2022.2092641 (full text available on UAB DDD: https://ddd.uab.cat/record/261056).
  2. Maestripieri L. (2021). The Covid-19 pandemics: why intersectionality matters? Frontiers in Sociology, 6:642662. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.642662
  3. Maestripieri L. (2019). Fragmented fields: professionalisms and work settings in Italian management consultancy, Journal of Professions & Organization, 6(3): 357–376. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/joz011