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BARBARA MORSELLO
Position
Ricercatrice a tempo det. art. 24 c.3 lett. A L. 240/2010
Address
VIA M. CESAROTTI, 10/12 - PADOVA
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Barbara Morsello is a Assistant Professor (Rtd-A) at the Fisppa department of the University of Padova and a member of the Pastis research group.
Previously, she was a research fellow at the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Padua as part of a Horizon 2020 project in which she worked on the social implications of emerging technologies in neuroscience with a focus on brain stimulation and AI. Between 2019 and 2021, she was a research fellow at the Fisppa department of the University of Padova in a PRIN/2017 project in which she focused on controversies concerning health with particular attention to the topic of vaccine hesitancy and refused knowledge in biomedical science.
She received a PhD in Social Theory and Research from the University of Roma Tre in 2019 and was later a Researcher at the Bruno Kessler Foundation’s Center for Information and Communication Technology in Trento.
In 2018 she was Visiting Research in SPS at the Department of Science Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS) at the University of Edinburgh, while since 2016 she has taught General Sociology as a full assistant professor at the Pontifical Lateran University.
She has collaborated in several research projects with the health directorate of the Regina Elena National Cancer Institute (IRE), where she worked on a project on cancer prevention as scientific coordinator, and with the DiTES – Digital Technology, Education and Society research center at Link Campus University as a member of the board of directors.
She is currently a member of the editorial board of the Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science and technology Studies.
Her recent research interests mainly concern the relationship between individuals and biomedical technologies and knowledge through the use of different methods of investigation, from qualitative and ethnographic research to media analysis.
Recent publications:
(2025) Morsello, B., & Giardullo, P. . Navigating non‐invitation: Pro‐vaccine choice communities amidst exclusion and public participation. Social Inclusion, 13.
(2024) Morsello, B. and Bonomo, C., Morsello, Barbara, and Camilla Bonomo., Humanizing or feminizing intelligent personal assistants? Exploring the gender representation of Siri, Cortana, and Alexa in the Italian public sphere, in “Journal of Gender Studies “, pp. 1-19, DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2024.2431589
(2024)Crabu S., Morsello B., Bodies by other means: Challenging the prevailing biomedical discourses within refused knowledge-based communities, in Arnaldi S., Crabu S., Viteritti A., Bodies and Technoscience. Practices, Imaginaries and Materiality, Trieste University Press
(2024) Morsello, B., Respecifying Fieldwork: Refused Knowledge Communities Explored Through the Reflexive Lens, in Neresini, F., Agodi, M.C., and Tosoni, S., (Eds.), Manufacturing, Refused Knowledge in the Age of Epistemic Pluralism. Discourses, Imaginaries, and Practices on the Border of Science., pp. 257-284, London, Palgrave MacMillan
(2024) Morsello, B., Neresini F. and Agodi M. C. “This is the real face of Covid-19!”: How Refused Knowledge Communities Entered the Pandemic Arena, in Neresini, F., Agodi, M.C., and Tosoni, S., (Eds.), Manufacturing, Refused Knowledge in the Age of Epistemic Pluralism. Discourses, Imaginaries, and Practices on the Border of Science., pp. 257-284, London, Palgrave MacMillan
Notices
Office hours
Wednesday from 12:30 to 13:30
at Palazzo de Claricini, Via Cesarotti 10-12, I piano
Il ricevimento va sempre concordato con la docente tramite mail e può essere svolto in presenza oppure online secondo le necessità.
Thesis proposals
Theses interested in the topics of health and biomedicine and particularly in their technological dimension are welcome.
These include topics related to the use of wearable devices - e-health and wearable devices for monitoring various aspects of health and well-being - or the embodiment of biomedical technologies (DBS, cochlear implants, cardiac implants, bio-haking, prothesis).
Topics related to new knowledge in the biomedical field (such as predictive and profiling technologies as in the case of genetic screening) but also the emergence of possible public controversies are welcome.
Preference is given to thesis proposals that involve empirical evidence, i.e. those that intend to explore the phenomenon under study through a small research project using sociological survey tools such as interviews, digital and non-digital ethnography and media analysis.
