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MARIA DODARO
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Università degli studi Padova
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Maria Dodaro is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Padua, where she teaches Sociology of Work within the BA in Sociology and the Course in Planning and Organisation of Health Services of the Master's Degree Programme in Health Professions of Prevention Sciences. In 2025, she obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in conomic Sociology, Sociology of Work, Urban and Environmental Sociology, with unanimous approval from the examining committee.\n\nFrom 2022 to 2024, she held the position of fixed-term researcher (type A) in Sociology of Economic and Labour Processes at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), University of Padua. Between 2019 and 2021, she undertook research assignments at the University of Milano-Bicocca.\n\nAt the University of Padua, she has taught Sociology of Work and Organisational Systems within the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Education and Training Sciences (academic years 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25) and Sociological Reasoning in the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Sociology (academic year 2023-24). Additionally, she has contributed to teaching and support activities in undergraduate and doctoral programmes, advanced training courses, and invited seminars in Italy and abroad.\n\nShe graduated in Economic and Social Sciences from the University of Calabria and, in 2019, completed a joint PhD in Sociology (University of Barcelona) and in Urban Studies (University of Milano-Bicocca), with a dissertation on local labour market policies in Milan and Barcelona, focusing in particular on initiatives promoting youth entrepreneurship.\n\nShe has undertaken research stays at the CRIT – Creativity, Innovation and Urban Transformation research group at the University of Barcelona (2017–2018, 2024), of which she has been an affiliated member since 2022. She is also a member of the Working Group Welfare e Istituzioni at the Institute for Advanced Study of Social Change (IASSC), University of Milano-Bicocca; of the international research network Urban Agency III: Towards a sustainable integration of disciplines in urban studies, coordinated by the Urban Studies Institute at the University of Antwerp and funded by the Flemish Research Council (FWO); of the Laboratory of Sociology of Public Action Sui Generis at the University of Milano-Bicocca; and of the scholarly network Collettivo per l’Economia Fondamentale.\n\nAuthor of a monograph, an edited volume and several peer-reviewed articles, she has presented her research at major international conferences, including the BSA Work, Employment & Society Conference (2025), the 16th European Sociological Association Conference (2024), the 20th ISA World Congress of Sociology (2023), the 5th Transforming Care Conference (2021), the RC21 Conference (2021), and the Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) (2020).
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Publications
Bifulco, L., Dodaro, M., (a cura di) (2024) Quale welfare dopo la pandemia? Processi e politiche, Bologna: il Mulino.
Bifulco, L., Dodaro, M. (2024) «Quale Welfare dopo la Pandemia». In Bifulco L. e Dodaro M. (a cura di), Quale welfare dopo la pandemia? Processi e politiche, Bologna: il Mulino.
Caselli, D., Dodaro, M., Moiso, V. (2024) «Finanza, welfare e vita quotidiana». In Bifulco, L., Dodaro, M. (a cura di), Quale welfare dopo la pandemia? Processi e politiche, Bologna: il Mulino.
Dodaro, M., & Bifulco, L. (2024) “The Depoliticisation of Social Policy through Financial Inclusion”. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 44, No. 13/14, pp. 1-15.
Dodaro M., (2023) Unpacking the Start-up City: Entrepreneurship, Neoliberal Governance and Local Actors Agency, Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN: 978-3-031-50211-8.
Dodaro M. (2023) «Planning under uncertainty. The Individualization of Welfare through Financial Education». In Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, n. 1, pp. 63-85.
Dodaro M. (2023) «Municipal Entrepreneurship Support Policies: Convergence or Divergence?». In Local Government Studies, vol. 49, n. 2, pp. 274-293 (Published online: 30 May 2021)
Dodaro M., Bifulco L., (2022) «Finanza, welfare e governo dell’incertezza: il caso dell’educazione finanziaria». In Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 12, 12(23), pp. 49-64.
Bifulco L., Dodaro M., Mozzana C. (2022) «Welfare locale e innovazione sociale alla prova dell’emergenza». In Polis. Ricerche e Studi su Società e Politica, 1, pp. 105-134.
Dagnes J., Dodaro M., Lofranco Z., Moiso V., Podda A., Rinaldi E., Sartori L., Zurru M. (2022) «Servizi bancari di prossimità. L’inclusione finanziaria in un’Italia diseguale». In Prima i fondamentali. L’economia della vita quotidiana tra profitto e benessere, a cura di J. Dagnes e A. Salento, Fondazione Giacomo Feltrinelli, Milano (pp. 193-230).
Dodaro M., Mozzana C., Anselmo M. (2021) «Social innovation, political activism and solidarity: insights from the pandemic crisis». In Territorio, n. 99, pp. 61-66.
Dodaro M. (2021) «Dal bisogno al debito. Il microcredito tra esclusione sociale ed inclusione finanziaria». In La Rivista delle Politiche Sociali, n. 1/2021, pp. 165-186.
Costarelli I., Dodaro M. (2021) «Only the Brave? Unfolding Self-activation in Local Welfare Measures for Youth Social Inclusion». In Autonomie Locali e Servizi Sociali. Quadrimestrale di studi e ricerche sul welfare, n. 1/2021, pp. 119-133.
Dodaro M. (2020) «Giovani e imprenditorialità: il pluralismo delle strategie e dei fattori di spinta
e il ruolo delle politiche». In Sociologia del lavoro, n. 158/2020, pp. 264-283.
Anselmo M., Bifulco L., Caselli, D., Dodaro M., Morlicchio, E., Mozzana C. (2020). «La solidarietà urbana ai tempi del Covid. Mobilitazioni sociali e (barlumi di) innovazione a Napoli e Milano». In Urbanistica Informazioni, n. 289, pp. 64-67.
Dodaro M. (2019) «Milan’s inclusive entrepreneurship policies: the risk of differentiated inclusion». In Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, vol 27, no 2, pp. 295-310.
Bifulco L., Dodaro M. (2019) «Local Welfare Governance and Social Innovation. The Ambivalence of the Political Dimension». In Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning. Theory and Practice, a cura di Eraydin, A. e Frey, K., Routledge.
Research Area
Welfare and social policies\nLocal/urban welfare\nYouth and work \nSocial work\nSocial innovation
