Curriculum Vitae
Murgia Annalisa
Current position
2012/13 Post-doctoral fellowship co-funded by the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission at the Académie universitaire Louvain (AuL), GIRSEF Research Unit - Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur la Socialisation, l’Education et la Formation, Belgium. Funded project: “Gender Differences in Early Post-PhD Employment. Flexible Stories between Academic and Personal Life” (1 May 2012 – 1 May 2013).
Work Experience
Academic Teaching
2012-13 Lecturer in Human Resources Management, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento.
2008-13 Contract lecturer in Introduction to the Labour World, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento.
2008-13 Contract lecturer (with Attila Bruni) in Equal Opportunities: Theories and Practices, postgraduate course on “Women, Politics and Institutions”, University of Trento (October).
2006-12 Teaching Assistant in Sociology of Work, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento.
2007-12 Teaching Assistant in Methodology of Social Sciences, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento.
2011-12 Contract lecturer in La gestione del personale e le politiche di diversity management, Master in “Diritto e Management delle Amministrazioni Pubbliche”, Trento School of Management.
2011 Contract lecturer in Le trasformazioni del lavoro e delle sue rappresentazioni, Master in “Media Studies”, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Siena (May).
2007-11 Contract lecturer (with Paola Villa) in Labour Market and Employment Policies in a Gender Perspective, postgraduate Master in “Gender Policies in the Labour Market”, Univ. of Trento.
2009-10 Contract lecturer in Sociology of Organization, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, Univ. of Siena.
2007 Seminar “Studying Precariousness of Work. Theoretical and Methodological Considerations”, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Turin (10th December).
2006-07 Contract lecturer in Labour Market and Employment Policies in a Gender Perspective, Master in “Gender Policies in the Labour Market”, University of Trento (April - June).
2006 Tutorship of the postgraduate Master in “Gender Policies in the Labour Market”, University of Trento (June - October).
2006 Seminar (with Attila Bruni) “Vecchi e nuovi dualismi nell’analisi dell’economia, del lavoro, delle organizzazioni: il caso di San Precario”, Faculty of Media Studies, University of Roma “La Sapienza” (29th March).
2005 Tutorship of the postgraduate Master in “Talent interdisciplinarity Innovation”, High School Politecnico of Milan and Turin (21th October).
Supervision of Theses
Since 2007: Supervision of Theses students for the undergraduate degrees in Sociology and International Studies; the graduate degrees in Sociology and Social Research; Work, Organisation and Information Systems and Organisation and Territory Management and in the Master degree in Gender policies in the labor market at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento.
Training
2012-13 Contract lecturer in Collective bargaining and gender equality, in the training course for Trade Unionists “Benessere lavorativo e contrattazione in ottica di genere”, LaReS Laboratorio Relazioni Sindacali, Trentino School of Management (May).
2010 Contract lecturer in Gender Empowerment, ESF course for migrant women, Associazione Donne Nissà, Bozen (January - May).
2009 Contract lecturer in Equal Opportunities and Work-Life Balance, training carried out within the anti-crisis plan of the Province of Trento, Simki, Trento (January).
2009 Contract lecturer in Equal Opportunities and Work-Life Balance, ESF course for migrant women, SPS, Trento (March).
2007 Contract lecturer in Gender and Labour Market, ESF course, Province of Trento (March).
2006 Contract lecturer in Equal Opportunities in the Labour Market, University of Trento & IARD Institute (June).
Education
2009 Ph.D. in “Sociology and Social Research” at the Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento, Italy.
2005 Master Degree cum laude in “Work, Organization and Information Systems”, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento, with a thesis titled “Flessibil-mente. Un’analisi del lavoro parasubordinato in un centro servizi per il sostegno dei lavoratori atipici”, winner of the prize for the best dissertations in Labour Market, promoted by Unions of Trentino.
2003 Sociology Degree cum laude, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento.
1999 Diploma of Scientific Lycée, 100/100, Lycée L.B. Alberti, Cagliari.
Studying abroad
2008 Visiting at the Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK (April-July).
2004 English course at the ATC Language & Travel, Dublin (July-September).
2002 DALF (Diplôme Approfondi de Langue Française), Ministère de l’Instruction Française.
2001/02 Socrates-Erasmus Programme, Université de Sociologie di Nantes.
Doctoral Schools
2010 Writing and Publishing in Gender Studies, International Doctoral School, Centre of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento, Italy (27-29 May).
2006 PhD Summer School on Gender and Work, University of Oslo (31 July-4 August).
2006 PhD Summer School on Rhetoric and Conversational Methods in Economics and in Management Studies and Practice - European Doctoral School on Knowledge and Management, Barcelona (8-13 May).
2006 Doctoral School on Organizational Studies between Tradition and Innovation, Paris (24-28 April).
2006 International Doctoral School on Organizational Learning: Knowing in Practice: How to Study it? - University of Trento (9-12 April).
2005 Laboratory of intercultural mediation on Narratives, Gender, Precariousness, Cultures - Prato (Florence) (28 August-3 September).
2004 Cycle of seminaries on the reform of the labor market, SAVE, Support to the disadvantage of the Atypical workers, Valorization and Emancipation - Trento (1 April-10 June).
Winner of the prize for the best dissertations in Labour Market in the University of Trento, promoted by Unions of Trentino (April 2005).
Fellowships
2012/13 Post-doctoral fellowship co-funded by the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission at the Académie universitaire Louvain (AuL).
2010/12 Post-doctoral fellowship, Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento, Italy. Funded project: “Gender Inequalities in Non-Standard Employment”.
2005/08 Doctoral School in Sociology and Social Research. Fellowship by the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento. Funded project: “From precarity to precariousness. Biographies in transition between work and non-work”.
2010-12 Researcher in the “Pilot Project to encourage conversion of precarious work into work with rights”, promoted by the European Commission: “Trapped or flexible? Risk transitions and missing policies for young high-skilled workers in Europe”. Project partners: Institute for Social Research (Milan, IT), Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento, Amitié srl (Bologne), Institute for Employment Studies (Brighton, UK), Centro de Estudios Económicos Tomillo S.L. (Madrid, ES) (December 2010-March 2012).
2006-09 Researcher in the Socrates Project: “Parental Leave Experiences & Skills for Enterprises and Society”. Project partners: European Network LOSOL - Learning On the Stage Of Life (Chemnitz, DE), Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento, World of NGOs (Wien, AT), MTÜ Naiskoolituse Keskus (Non-profit organisation Women’s Training Centre, Tallinn, EE) (September 2006-September 2009).
2005-07 Junior researcher in the Equal project: “Gender Work and Occupational Segregation”. National partnership: Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento, Gender (Milano), FIDIA srl, FORES srl, Scuola di Preparazione Sociale di Trento. International partnership: Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento, Finnish National Board of Education, Danish Research Centre on Gender Equality (Roskilde University, DK), Ayuntamiento de Cacabelos (ES) (January 2005-December 2008).
2005-06 Junior researcher in the Eurocities Project: “New FAtherhood Concepts in European citieS”. Project partners: Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), Regional Social Welfare Resource Centre (BSZF, Budapest, HU), City of Aarhus (DK), City of Bologna (IT), City of Gijon (ES), City of Rome (IT), Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento (IT), City of Trento (IT), Cultura Animi Foundation (Sofia, BG), ISAI (FI), Strategy Transnational- Chemnitz (DE), University of Trento (IT), VbFF- Chemnitz (DE), The Verwey-Jonker Institute (NL) (January 2005-December 2006).
National research
2012 Researcher in the project “The City of Bozen Organizational Wellness”, funded by the City of Bozen and coordinated by prof. Carlo Buzzi, for the Sociology and Social Research Department of University of Trento (2012).
2010 -11 Researcher in the ESF project “Actions for improving the quality of work and life of temporary workers”, coordinated by the IRS, Institute for Social Research, Milan (April 2010-March 2011).
2009-10 Collaboration to the research project “Self-employment: a study on the political economy of the new independent middle class”, coordinated by prof. Arnaldo Bagnasco, under the scientific supervision of prof. Costanzo Ranci, for the Italian Council for Social Sciences (December 2009-February 2010).
2009-10 Collaboration to the research project “Migration systems and housework”, coordinated by Asher Colombo, Department of Education “Giovanni Maria Bertin”, for the University of Bologna (October 2009-January 2010).
2009-10 Researcher in the “DI.RE project” about the Gender Pay Gap, for the Autonomous Province of Bozen (September 2009-April 2010).
2009 Researcher in the “Reflex Project”, for the Sociology and Social Research Department of University of Trento (May-December).
2005-08 Junior researcher in the PRIN project (Research Project of Ministry of Research and University, Italy) “Biographical Transitions: A Comparison between Objects and Models”, coordinated by Mario Cardano, University of Turin (September 2005-September 2008).
2007 Researcher in the action research “O.L.T.R.E. Organizations, Work, Part-time, Empowerment” about careers of women over 45, for the Sociology and Social Research Department of University of Trento (January-December).
2007 Researcher in the project “Osservatorio Giovani – rapporto biennale Giovani in Trentino”, about youth in the province of Trento, for the IPRASE Trentino (October-November).
2006 Consulting activity in the research “The Youth Unemployment in Trentino” for the Osservatorio Permanente per l’Economia, il lavoro e per la valutazione della domanda Sociale (OPES), Trento, (October-November).
2005 Collaboration to the research project “Equal Opportunities between Women and Men in Politics”, Province of Trento, Equal Opportunity Office (June).
2004 Stage at the Research&Service Centre Flessibilmente, Commerce Academy of Trento (Sept-Dec).
Researching abroad
2012/13 Post-doctoral fellowship co-funded by the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission at the Académie Universitaire de Louvain, under the supervision of Prof. Bernard Fusulier (May 2012-April 2013).
2010 Visiting Researcher, invited by the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia, hosted by Prof. George Morgan (November).
2008 Visiting Researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK, hosted by Prof. Miriam Glucksmann (April-July).
Chair (with Lara Maestripieri and Emiliana Armano) Sociology of Professional Groups Session “Knowledge workers. Processes of Hybridization, Marketization and Subjectivation ”, XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, 2014, 13-19 July.
Member of the scientific and organiser committee of the National Conference “Attraverso i confini del genere”, Center of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Trento. Chair (with Paola Villa) “Gender at work” Session, 2012, 23-24 February.
Member of the scientific and organiser committee of the National Conference “Raccontare, ascoltare, comprendere. Metodologia e campi di applicazione delle narrazioni nelle scienze sociali”, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento. Convenor (with Silvia Gherardi) of the session “Narratives, Work and Organisation”, 2011, 22-23 September.
Expert on gender and work for the radioarticolo1 programmes.
Expert on work and social vulnerability for the Province of Trento, for the “Agenda Future Search”, promoted by the ESF-Agentschap, Brussels, 2013.
Peer Reviewer for the Academic Journals Gender, Work and Organization, Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques, Studi Organizzativi, About Gender.
Organisation of the movie festivals on work transformations, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento, 2006/13.
Organisation of the cycle of seminars on Equal Opportunities, Center of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, 2008/11.
Organisation of the National Conference “Gender & Precariousness”, Center of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Trento, 2009, 13-14 November.
Software for Research
Atlas.ti (software for qualitative analysis - Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software).
SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences).
Labour transformations
Precarious working conditions
Safety, flexible work and occupational health
Critical issues in Human Resource Management
Labour unions and workers' movements
Work identities
Biographical transitions between work and non-work
Social construction of gender in professional careers
Methodologies of qualitative analysis
Member of the Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur la Socialisation, l’Education et la Formation (GIRSEF), Académie universitaire Louvain (www.uclouvain.be/girsef.html).
Member of the Research Unit on Communication, Organizational Learning and Aesthetics (www.unitn.it/rucola)
Member of the Centre of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento (www.unitn.it/csg).
Member of European Group of Organisational Studies (EGOS).
Member of the Italian Association of Sociology, section “Economy, Labour and Organizations” (AIS-ELO) and section “Gender Studies” (AIS-Genere).
Invited talks
2013 Plenary speech at the Conference “DeGenero, el treball en l’actualitat: entre precarietat idesigualtats”, organized by: Asociación Diáspora Solidaria (Catalunya, Holanda, Xile), Corrente Alternata (Itàlia), Framtid Solutions (Catalunya, Suècia), 22 May.
2013 Presentation of the book in two volumes (edited with E. Armano) Maps of Precariousness, discussed by S. Bologna, O. De Leonardis, A. Fumagalli, I. Pais, A. Petrillo, C. Ranci, Social Policy Lab at the Polytechnic of Milan, 21 March.
2013 Presentation of the book in two volumes (edited with E. Armano) Maps of Precariousness, discussed by C. Mellini and A.C. Freschi, Firenze, 2 February.
2012 “Quale genere di organizzazione del lavoro?”, Plenary speech at the Conference “Le donne cambiano... la contrattazione”, CGIL nazionale, 14 December, Roma.
2011 Discussion of the research “Precarie, atipiche, indeterminate: donne al lavoro nella provincia di Bologna”, Contribution to the Conference “Le Consigliere di Parità, la tutela antidiscriminatoria e il mercato del lavoro nella provincia di Bologna”, 20 October, Bologna.
2010 “Representations of precarity in Italy. Collective and individual stories, social imaginaries and subjectivities”, Plenary speech at the International Symposium “Are We All Cultural Workers Now? Getting By In Precarious Times”, Centre for Cultural Research Workshop, 25-26 November, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
2010 “Femminilizzazione e precarietà del lavoro. Un'analisi delle discriminazioni di genere dentro e oltre i contesti professionali”, Contribution to the Conference “Che genere di precarietà? Le donne nel mondo del lavoro contemporaneo”, European Leonardo Da Vinci project SDOLM (Sex Discrimination On the Labour Market), 12 November, Palermo.
Papers presented/workshops
2013 “The more you are educated, the shorter your contract is... A comparative study on young highly skilled precarious workers between Italy and Spain”, 11th Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association, University of Turin, 28-31 August (with Barbara Poggio).
2013 “Vulnerability at work: the case of italian temporary workers”, Conference on WORK - Continuities and Disruptions in Modern Life, Turku, Finland, 21-23 August (with Elisa Bellè, Anna Carreri, Francesco Miele).
2013 “Constructing Diversity in Managerial Ranks in Finland and in Italy”, 29h EGOS Colloquium, HEC Montréal & Université de Montréal, 4-6 July (with Saija Katila, Päivi Eriksson and Silvia Gherardi).
2013 “Vulnerability at work: (un)safety culture in temporary jobs”, 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, University of Milan, 27-29 June (with Elisa Bellè, Anna Carreri, Francesco Miele).
2013 “Juggling work and life in Academia: Focus on early stages of Belgian and Italian scientific careers”, 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, University of Milan, 27-29 June (with Maria del Rio Carral and Bernard Fusulier).
2013 “Rappresentazioni della precarietà in Italia. Storie individuali e collettive, immaginari sociali e soggettività”, Convegno “Giovani e mercato del lavoro: instabilità, transizioni, partecipazione, politiche”, University of Bologna, Italy, 2 February.
2012 Participation to the ESF workshop Analysing professional practice, University of Gothenburg (1-2 November).
2012 “Quando studiare non basta. Transizioni a rischio per giovani highly skilled nel mercato del lavoro flessibile”, AIS-ELO Conference, University of Calabria, Italy, 27-28 September (with Barbara Poggio).
2012 “Trapped or flexible? Risk transitions and missing policies for young high-skilled workers in Italy, Spain and UK”, ESRC Seminar Series on Young workers and precarious employment, Seminar 4: “State and Policy responses”, Coventry University, UK, 21 September.
2012 “Imagine to evaluate your CEO... Undergraduates' discursive positioning on gender and management, 28th EGOS Colloquium, Aalto University & Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, 2-7 July (with Silvia Gherardi).
2012 “Is investing in education an anti-precarity strategy? A comparative analysis of the young highly skilled precarious workers' conditions in Italy, Spain and UK”, 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 28-30 June.
2012 “Fabbriche della precarietà. Un'analisi comparativa dei giovani laureati in Italia, Spagna e Inghilterra”, Convegno di Etnografia 2012, Università di Bergamo, 7-9 June.
2011 “Esperimenti di flexicurity in Italia. Dal piano anti-crisi alla delega sugli ammortizzatori sociali in provincia di Trento”, 4th Annual Conference ESPAnet Italia “Innovare il welfare. Percorsi di trasformazione in Italia e in Europa”, Milan, 29 September - 1 October.
2011 “Inspire and conspire. Forms of self-organization of precarious workers in Italy”, 6th ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) General Conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 25-27 August (with Giulia Selmi).
2011 “Job Models Renewals with(out) Gender Models Renewals. Stories of High Skilled Workers in Temporary Jobs”, Gender, Work and Organization Conference “Gender Renewals?”, International Workshop Series, VU University, Amsterdam, 22-24 June (with Barbara Poggio).
2010 “Gendered Ways of Knowledge Working? Stories of Gender Hegemony and Resistance in Temporary Jobs”, Interdisciplinary Congress “Gendered Ways of Knowing? Gender, Natural Sciences and Humanities”, FBK, Trento, Italy, 1-4 December.
2010 “Looking beyond the gender pay gap. Research results on (de)valuation of women and men's work”, 1st Global Conference “The Value of Work”, Prague, Czech Republic, 5-7 November (with Elisa Bellè and Barbara Poggio).
2010 “Nouvelles formes de masculinités dans les organisations. L'expérience des congés parentaux racontée par les hommes”, Colloque International “Égalité hommes/femmes et articulation travail/famille: vers un nouveau modèle?”, Paris, 30 September - 1 October (with Barbara Poggio).
2010 “Precarization and risk transitions. Rethinking the boundaries of work in the life story and in the everyday life”, XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-17 July.
2010 “Quando la ricerca da pubblica si fa privata. Analisi delle innovazioni in un caso di trasformazione organizzativa”, AIS-ELO Conference, University of Florence, Italy, 8-9 July (with Paolo Tomasin).
2010 “Changes at Work and in Gender Relations. Stories of Gender Hegemony and Resistance in Temporary Jobs”, Gender, Work and Organization, 6th International Interdisciplinary Conference, Keele University, UK, 21-23 June.
2010 “Biographies in transition. Stories of precariousness between work and non-work”, 3rd TransEurope Young Researcher Meeting “Flexibilization and Changing Life Course Patterns in a Globalizing Europe”, University of Turin, Italy, 18-19 June.
2009 “Racconti di mo(n)di precari. Posizionamenti di genere in/stabili nel mercato del lavoro contemporaneo”, National Conference “Gender & Precariousness”, Center of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Trento, Italy, 13-14 November.
2009 “Transizioni a rischio. Dall'interpretazione dei vissuti biografici allo sviluppo di politiche di sostenibilità e qualità sociale del lavoro”, AIS-ELO Conference, University of Cagliari, Italy, 17-18 September.
2009 “Between work and non-work. Risk Transitions through Life Stories and Everyday Life”, 9th Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association, Lisbon, 3-6 September.
2009 “Unmasking Hegemonic Practices. Men's Stories on Gender Culture in Organization”, 25th EGOS Colloquium, Esade Business School, Barcellona, 2-4 July (with Barbara Poggio).
2009 “Posizionare la precarietà. Rappresentazioni del lavoro e costruzioni identitarie nelle storie di vita”, Third Workshop on Ethnography and Qualitative Research, University of Bergamo, Italy, 25-27 June.
2008 “Work-life balance transitions. Positioning between work and non-work”, in the Seminar “Biographical and Identity Transitions. Connections and Interferences between Work and Private Life”, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy, 30 September (with Barbara Poggio).
2008 “Upsetting Careers. Practices and Policies to Tackle Vertical Gender Segregation”, 24th EGOS Colloquium, Vrije University, Amsterdam, 10-12 July (with Barbara Poggio).
2008 “Cambiare le pratiche di genere nella pubblica amministrazione. Strategie di ricerca-azione”, AIS-ELO Conference, University of Turin, Italy, 3-4 July (with Barbara Poggio).
2007 “Essere invisibili nell’isola che non c’è. Storie di precarietà nella pubblica amministrazione trentina”, Equal Gelso Conference “L’isola che non c’è. Pratiche di genere nella pubblica amministrazione tra carriere, conciliazione e nuova precarietà”, University of Trento, Italy, 25-26 October.
2007 “Dare un senso alla precarietà. Un’analisi narrativa delle storie di uomini e donne tra lavoro e non lavoro”, Second Workshop on Ethnography and Qualitative Research, University of Bergamo, Italy, 6-8 September.
2007 “From Precarity to Precariousness. Stories about transitions between work and non-work”, 8th Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association, Glasgow Caledonian University & Strathclyde University, UK, 3-6 September.
2007 “Dancing gender waltz. Constructing identities inside and outside organizations”, 23th EGOS Colloquium, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, 5-7 July (with Barbara Poggio).
2007 “From work precarity to social precarity: a gender perspective of transitions between work and private life”, Gender, Work and Organization Conference, Keele University, UK, 27-29 June.
2007 “Il progetto Equal-Gelso. GEnere, Lavoro e Segregazione Occupazionale”, Conference “I Centri Studi di genere: esperienze nazionali e internazionali a confronto”, University of Pisa, Italy, 15-16 June (with Barbara Poggio).
2007 “Traiettorie ed intrecci nelle storie di carriera di uomini e donne. Una lettura di genere delle transizioni tra lavoro e non lavoro”, AIS-ELO Conference, Napoli, University Federico II, 24–25 May (with Michela Cozza and Barbara Poggio).
2007 “Il posizionamento di genere nelle storie lavorative di donne e uomini”, International Seminar: “Genere e Potere. Per una Rifondazione delle Scienze Sociali”, Roma University La Sapienza, 4-5 May (with Barbara Poggio).
2006 “Gender, Work and Occupational Segregation. Report of an Action-Research in Trento”, paper submitted to the Oslo PhD Summer School on Gender and Work, 31 July-4 August.
2006 “Gender and flexibility. Flexible Working Patterns in Women and Men’s Professional Careers” working progress paper presented at the Second International Doctoral School on Organisational Learning Knowing in Practice: How to Study It?, Trento, 9-12 April.
2006 “Gender and Flexible Careers”, working progress paper presented at Univeristé de Paris Sud XI, 26-27 April.
2006 “Atipici o flessibili? San Precario, salvaci tu!”, AIS-ELO Conference, University of Bologna, Italy, 3-4 February (with Attila Bruni).
