SABRINA CIPOLLETTA

Sabrina Cipolletta is a full professor of Social Psychology at the Department
of General Psychology at the University of Padua, where she earned her degree
in 1998, her doctorate in 2003, and her post-doctoral fellowship in 2005. She
became a researcher in 2007 and an associate professor in 2018. In 2005, she
was a contract professor at the Free University of Bozen, and since 2009, she
has been a visiting professor at the University of Hertfordshire (UK), the
Catholic University of Lima (Peru), the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil),
and the University of Riga (Latvia).
Since 2011, she has directed the health psychology research laboratory
PsyMed. Her main research interests are in health psychology, with a focus on
illness experience, social isolation and loneliness, caregiving, end-of-life
care, the healthcare system, body practices, and eHealth interventions,
primarily using ethnographic and qualitative methods. She has actively
contributed to the development of a new qualitative analysis methodology to
identify specific illness and care pathways that can inform personalized
intervention strategies. She has collaborated extensively with organizations
and worked in social settings to promote the well-being of patients and
caregivers. She has led and collaborated on numerous national and
international projects on the well-being and social relationships of young
and older adults, on illness-related experiences and caregiving (e.g., people
with ALS), on the experience of COVID-19 and risk perception, on vaccination,
transplantation, and organ donation. She has always been committed to
promoting the transfer of this knowledge into people's daily lives by
collaborating with local associations and services and through outreach,
training, and psychological support activities that also involve the
community.
Her teachings in master's and postgraduate programs focus on health
psychology and interpersonal relationships. She contributed to the creation
and coordination of the undergraduate international degree program in
Psychological Science and she leads the Short-specialization program in
Personal Construct Psychology and Counselling. She is a member of the
doctoral program in Brain, Mind, and Computer Science and leads a clinical
service for international students and scholars at the University Clinical
Services Center, where she also works as a psychotherapist.
She has published six books, numerous book chapters, and more than 100
articles in international journals. She is a member of the Editorial Board of
several international journals and has served on the Steering Committee of
the Italian Society of Health Psychology and the European Health Psychology
Society, for which she is currently a national delegate