Social Research and Innovation
Contact persons A.Y. 2025/2026 (XLI cycle)
The teaching modules of the PhD programme in Social Research and Innovation offer advanced and interdisciplinary education. With its wide range of courses, the programme develops the necessary theoretical and methodological skills to address contemporary challenges in social research and innovation.
The contact persons for academic year 2025/2026 (XLI cycle) are reported below:
| PhD Programme in Social Research and Innovation | |
| Subject | Professor/lecturer in charge |
| Planning your thesis | Prof. Emiliano Ilardi |
| Epistemology of social science | Prof. Marco Pitzalis |
| Geographic information systems, mapping and data visualisation | Prof. Giovanni Sistu |
| Data analysis and advanced statistical methods | Prof. Isabella Sulis |
| Theories and techniques of research I | Prof. Caterina Satta |
| Theories and techniques of research II | Prof. Antonello Podda |
| Sources for social research | Prof. Luca Pantaleo |
| Social Science Theory I | Dr. Gabriele Pinna |
| Social Science Theory II | Dr. Gabriele Pinna |
| Political and institutional innovation | Prof. Fulvio Venturino |
| Local development, sustainability, social inclusion, interculturality | Prof. Francesca Ippolito |
| Social and cultural innovation | Prof. Alessandro Lovari |