Lara Maestripieri IGOPLara Maestripieri holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Research, awarded by the University of Trento (2011). She is a “Ramon y Cajal” distinguished researcher at the Department of Political Science of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is also a member of the Research Group Analysis, Management and Evaluation of Public Policy (AGAPP), through its attachment to the IGOP (Institute of Government and Public Policy). She is the current secretary/treasurer of the ISA RC52 board “Sociology of professional groups”. Her main research interests concern social change in post-industrial society and in particular: public policy and intersectionality, economic insecurity in Southern European countries, social innovation and emerging professions.

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