Baldino Norma
Duration: 12 months (from 24/06/2024 to 23/07/2025)
Research Grant Title: “Socio-territorial Methods and Variables for Risk Analysis in Local Areas: Public Institutions, Strategic Communication, and Stakeholder Engagement.”
PRIN 2022 PNRR Project Title: “INSULANDER – Investigating the Strategic Role of Communication for Resilient Islands Coping with Disasters Risk Management” – Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Alessandro Lovari.

Norma Baldino is a sociologist and post-doctoral researcher within the PRIN PNRR Insulander project. Her research explores risk communication and media narratives of environmental disasters, with a focus on wildfires and floods in the insular contexts of Sardinia and Sicily. The aim is to analyse the role of media and institutions in the social construction of disasters through a mixed methods approach. The methodology combines media coverage analysis and qualitative content analysis, alongside in-depth interviews with institutional communicators and journalists. The research is currently in the phase of systematizing and interpreting empirical data.

Brusca Adriana
Duration: 12 months (from 12/07/2024 to 11/10/2025)
Research Grant Title: “The Promotion of Sustainable Development in the European Union’s External Action.”
PRIN 2022 PNRR Project Title: “Make it Better: In Search of a New Normative Model for the Promotion of Sustainable Development in the EU External Action” – Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Luca Pantaleo.

The research focuses on the promotion of sustainable development within the external action of the European Union. In recent years, this issue has gained increasing significance at the internal level, and the EU aspires to position itself as a global leader in this domain. Against this backdrop, the study examines the various legal instruments implemented by the Union to advance sustainable development beyond its borders, as well as the normative models underpinning such efforts, with the aim of proposing a new framework based on the recalibration of the existing ones.

Moreschini Iacopo 
Duration: 12 months (from 01/09/2024 to 31/08/2025)
Research Grant Title: “From High School to University: Assessing the Influence of Peers on Educational Inequalities.”
PRIN 2022 Project Title: “From High School to University: Assessing Peers' Influence in Educational Inequalities and Performances” – Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Isabella Sulis.

The research activity within the PRIN Peer-Up project focuses on the quantitative analysis of the influence of school and classroom environments on Italian students’ outcomes and educational choices, using INVALSI data. Multilevel models are employed to estimate the impact of schools and classes on the likelihood of underachievement in Italian and mathematics. A set of indicators is also developed to classify schools based on socio-economic inequalities and internal selection mechanisms. From the sample-based data, enriched with information on school management and teaching practices, synthetic scales (IRT) are derived to assess the effect of leadership styles and teaching practices on student performance.

Neironi Raimondo Maria 
Duration: 12 months (from 01/03/2024 to 30/08/2025)
Research Grant Title: “Mapping the Chinese Economic Presence in the Southern Shore of the Mediterranean.”
PRIN 2022 Project Title: “Italy-China 2030: Meeting the ‘Upgrading China Knowledge in Europe’ Challenge. An Assessment of Critical Issue-Areas in Sino-Italian Relations and of the Strategic Capacity Gap for Responsible Engagement” – Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Barbara Onnis.

Raimondo M. Neironi is Post-doctoral Research Fellow in History and Institutions of Asia at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Cagliari. He is also a Non-resident Research Fellow at T.wai – Torino World Affairs Institute (research programme: Indo-Pacific). Supervised by Prof. Barbara Onnis, and within the PRIN (Projects of Relevant National Interest) programme titled “Italy-China 2030: Meeting the upgrading China knowledge in Europe challenge. An assessment of critical issue-areas in Sino-Italian relations and of the strategic capacity gap for responsible engagement”, funded by the European Union, Neironi is conducting fieldwork research on the Chinese cultural diplomacy in Morocco. More specifically, he examines the cultural presence of the People’s Republic of China in the Kingdom of Morocco in educational, cultural and language learning fields.

Pisu Daniela
Duration: 24 months (from 05/12/2023 to 04/12/2025)
Research Grant Title: “Communicating Emergency and Risk: Institutional Communication, Media, and Connected Citizens.”
PNRR - PE3 - RETURN Project Title: “Multi Risk sciEnce for resilienT commUnities undeR a changiNg climate – RETURN” Personnel quota – Principal Investigator: Prof. Battista Grosso – Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Alessandro Lovari.

Daniela Pisu, PhD in Social Sciences, is a member of the Researchers' Focus Group for the HRS4R Strategy as R2 for the Department of Political and Social Sciences. She is a research fellow in Sociology of cultural and communicative processes for the project Communicating the emergency and risk: institutional communication, media and connected citizens (Scientific Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Lovari) which, included in Spoke 7 TS3 Communities' resilience to risks: social, economic, legal and cultural dimension of the PNRR RETURN project, aims to identify effective risk communication strategies to improve the resilience of communities to the impacts of climate change with non-standard research techniques.