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PAOLA MILANI

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Position

Professoressa Ordinaria

Address

VIA BEATO PELLEGRINO, 28 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498271745

PhD, Full Professor of General Pedagogy in the FiSPPA Dept. Director of the Interdep. Centre for Pedagogy and Psychology Childhood from 2018 to 2021, transited to the University Centre for Human Rights, of which she is a member of macro-area 3 in the Governing Council for the three-year period 2022-2025. Member of the Dip. Board since 2019.
Visiting researcher in various EU universities, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Responsible for 2 European Erasmus + projects in 2017-2021.
In 2019 appointed expert in the Comité international de consensus by the French Minister of the Family.
Member of the scientific committee of several scientific Journals and Pedagogical Societies. Expert member by appointment of the Minister of the National Observatory for Children and Adolescents since 2015.
In 2009, she founded LabRIEF, which promotes research and training projects in the fields of parenting support, design and evaluation of programmes with children and families in vulnerable situations: https://www.labrief-unipd.it
Project manager for the drafting of the Guidelines for Family Fostering of the Veneto Region (2008), of the National Guidelines on Family Fostering (2012), of the scientific committee for the revision of the same Guidelines. Currently national head of P.I.P.P.I. (Programme of Intervention to Prevent Institutionalisation), financed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies for the years 2011-2026, the largest programme so far promoted in social policies in Italy, which won the 2019 National Public Administration Award, the European Social Award 2019, from 2022 financed in the PNRR with 80mln€ as it is recognised as an Essential Level of Social Protection in 2021.
Following the activation of the Citizenship Income policy, in which the P.I.P.P.I. methodology is indicated as the basis for building the evaluation of the intervention with families, the Ministry of Labour and the FiSPPA signed an Agreement for the four-year period 2018-2022 aimed at training 2400 case managers and carrying out research with families in poverty.
The coordination of a working group engaged in public policy construction attracted the interest of an audience of researchers, which enabled the development of research partnerships such as: an invitation as a visiting scientist at the Université de Franche-Comté in a.a. '20-'21, the appointment as invited professor at the University of Fribourg in 2011-2018, the appointment as scientific advisor of SUPSI 2012-2021, as advisor of the Swiss UNESCO Commission for Education in the two-year period 2017-2019, the appointment as Italian representative in COSTaction 18123, EuroFam-Net of the European Commission from 2019; the appointment as expert from 2021 of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, the ITWIIN Prize for women innovators in 2018, for the category Capacity building: https://www.itwiin.org/it/albo/albo-2018.html, etc.
Author of around 200 scientific communications at national and international conferences, 300 publications including in 2018, Education and Families. Research and new practices for parenting, Carocci, which won the SIPED national prize for the best pedagogical monograph in 2019 and the recent Nelle stanze dei bambini alle nove della sera. Contrasting and preventing social inequalities, Erickson.

Notices

Paola Milani always responds punctually to e-mails from all students, except for those in which requests are made for information on programmes and examinations already on Uniweb.
For the reception, an appointment in person or via Zoom must be booked by e-mail.

For students requesting theses: assignment normally takes place after attendance of the course.

Office hours

  • Wednesday from 12:30 to 14:30
    at Via Beato Pellegrino 28, primo piano
    Il ricevimento richiede la prenotazione via e-mail. La docente avverte sempre tempestivamente tramite Uniweb in caso di variazioni dell'orario. La docente è comunque regolarmente disponibile via e-mail e/o per fissare appuntamenti individuali su Zoom.

Teachings

Research Area

Research topics:
- parenting support: reasons, methods, process and outcome evaluation of interventions
- education, parenting and social inequalities
- family foster care and child protection and care processes in the Welfare system: planning and evaluation of interventions
- work with children and vulnerable families in the perspective of prevention of out of home placements and of the family reunification
- parenting and education in early childhood services
- the impact of parenting in the first thousand days of children's lives
- education, parenting and the prevention of social inequalities
- support for families of children with special needs
- relationships between personal services, schools and families: partnership
- resilience and education.

Thesis proposals

Parenting support
Implementation of intervention programmes for families
Evaluation and design of socio-educational interventions
Child neglect and resilience
Foster care
Parents' participation in early childhood care centres and in the school
Children's and parents' participation in projects involving them