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MARIA CRISTINA GINEVRA

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Position

Professoressa Associata

Structure

Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia Applicata - FISPPA

Address

VIA VENEZIA, 14 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498276464

E-mail

mariacristina.ginevra@unipd.it

She is associate professor at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology, University of Padova. She teaches Psychology of career guidance, Human Rights and Inclusion, and part of Developmental Psychology

She collaborates with the Larios Laboratory (Laboratory for Research and Intervention in Vocational Designing and Career Counseling) at the University of Padova.

Director of the post-graduate course in Career guidance for inclusion, sustainibility and social justice

She received an award in 2015 from the European Society for Vocational Designing and Career Counselling (ESVDC), for the research project: ‘Journey in the world of professions and work’: A career intervention for children, and in 2012 the ‘Giuseppe Martini’ Award for Dissertation on Career development for adolescents

Member of Committee in European Projects:
- European Doctoral Programme in Career Guidance and Counselling (ECADOC; 2014-2017)
- Counselling for Refugee and Migrant Integration into the Labour Market - Development of Courses for Higher Education and Public Employment Services (CMinaR) (2016-2019)
- Arqus European University Alliance (2019-2022)
- Integration, Counseling and Upskilling of Migrants and Refugees from Latin America and the Caribbean into the Labour Market (2022-2024)
- A self-management learning model to foster the independence of people with intellectual disabilities (2022-2025)
- European Quality Development System for Inclusive Education and Teacher Training - EQui-T (2023-2026)

Participation in international research groups:
- UniTwin international network “Life Designing Interventions (counseling, guidance, education) for decent work and sustainable development”. UNESCO Chair
- The Career Adaptability International Collaborative
- International Hope Research Team - IHRT
- Courage Research Group
- Decent work and inclusive vocational guidance
- Italian University Network for Counselling – Uni.Co

Associate Editor
- International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance (since 2021)
- Frontiers in Psychology

Executive Board Member of the Italian Society for Vocational Guidance (SIO)

Notices

Office hours

  • Nei mesi di marzo, aprile e maggio il ricevimento è previsto (previo appuntamento) in presenza (Psico 3, via Venezia 14, piano 3) o in modalità telematica tramite la piattaforma zoom il giovedì mattina dalle 10.00 alle 11.30. Questo il link per collegarsi https://unipd.zoom.us/j/97621590088.

Teachings

Publications

A selection of publication

- Santilli, S., Ginevra, M.C., Israelashvili, M., & Nota, L. (2022). Inclusive socialization? The relationships between parents' and their child's attitudes toward students with disabilities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 16387. https://
doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416387
- Ginevra, M. C., Di Maggio, I., Valbusa, I., Santilli, S., & Nota, L. (2023). Teachers’ attitudes towards students with disabilities: The role of the type of information provided in the students’ profiles of children with disabilities. European Journal of Special Needs Education, 37(3), 357-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/08856257.2021.1878658
- Ginevra, M. C., Vezzali, L., Camussi, E., Capozza, D., & Nota, L. (2021). Promoting positive attitudes toward peers with disabilities: The role of information and imagined contact. Journal of Educational Psychology, 113(6), 1269–1279. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000661- Ginevra, M. C., Di Maggio, I., Santilli, S., & Nota, L. (2021). Italian adolescents’ understandings of globalization. Journal of Adolescence, 89, 128-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.04.008
- Ginevra, M. C., Di Maggio, I., Santilli, S., & Nota, L. (2021). The role of career adaptability and future orientation on future goals in refugees. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 49(2), 272-286. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2020.1865874
- Ginevra, M. C., Di Maggio, I., Valbusa, I., Santilli, S., & Nota, L. (2021). Teachers’ attitudes towards students with disabilities: The role of the type of information provided in the students’ profiles of children with disabilities. European Journal of Special Needs Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/08856257.2021.1878658
- Ginevra, M. C., Vezzali, L., Camussi, E., Capozza, D., & Nota, L. (2021). Promoting positive attitudes toward peers with disabilities: The role of information and imagined contact. Journal of Educational Psychology, 113(6), 1269–1279. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000661
- Ginevra, M. C., Nota, L., & Stokes, M. (2016). The differential effects of Autism and Down’s syndrome upon sexual behavior. Autism Research, 9(1), 131-140. doi:10.1002/aur.1504
- Ginevra, M. C., Pallini, S., Vecchio, G. M., Nota, L., & Soresi, S. (2016). Future orientation and attitudes mediate career adaptability and decidedness. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 95-96, 102-110. doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2016.08.003

Research Area

Psychology of career guidance
- Examining the career development process in children, adolescents, and adults
- Examining parental influences on children’s career-decision making
- Setting up and adapting qualitative and quantitative assessment instruments for career guidance
- Devising, implementing and testing the effectiveness of career interventions for children, adolescents, and adults
- Devising, implementing and testing the effectiveness of career interventions for parents

Psychology of disability and inclusion
- Examining classmates’, parents’ and teachers’ attitudes towards school inclusion of students with disabilities and vulnerabilities
- Examining coworkers’ and employers’ attitudes towards work inclusion of individuals with disabilities and vulnerabilities
- Setting up and adapting qualitative and quantitative assessment instruments for assessing work and school inclusion
- Devising, implementing and testing the effectiveness of interventions for promoting school and work inclusion;

Thesis proposals

- Examining the career development process in children, adolescents, and adults
- Examining parental influences on children’s career-decision making
- Implementing and testing the effectiveness of career interventions for children, adolescents, and young adults
- Examining classmates’, parents’ and teachers’ attitudes towards school inclusion of students with disabilities and vulnerabilities
- Examining coworkers’ and employers’ attitudes towards work inclusion of individuals with disabilities and vulnerabilities
- Implementing and testing the effectiveness of interventions for promoting school and work inclusion