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Curriculum vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Paolo Giardullo, Ph.D.
Sex Male | Nationality Italian
PERSONAL STATEMENT
Paolo Giardullo has been awarded with the title of PhD in Sociology of Cultural
Phenomena and Normative Processes in 2016 with a thesis in the Italian Disciplinary
sector SPS/10, Sociology of the Environment and Territory. He analysed air quality policies
in a comparative cross-country perspective within SEFIRA FP7 project. As shown by his
publications, he has also developed a sensitivity to Mixed-Method and to the study of
society through techniques for the investigation of web 2.0. Deepening Digital Methods, he
has developed specific skills in analyzing text, in particular the content and discourse,
combining qualitative techniques (through software CAQDAS) and quantitative (topic
detection). Parallel to these activities, he has been involved in various research teams
developing methodological skills both in quality (conducting interviews and focus groups)
and in quantity field (design and implementation of sample surveys and statistical analysis
of secondary data). In continuity with his doctoral studies, as well as his interest in
methodology of social research, he is aiming at investigating environmental issues
combining web data, media analysis and fieldwork.
WORK EXPERIENCE
10/05/2016–10/11/2016
Researcher for the project "Scritture e linguaggi del turismo", Segmento
sociologico: Turismo 2.0 - Il web e le dimensioni esperienziali del turismo
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Valle d'Aosta, Aosta (Italy)
Mixed-methods; Digital Methods; Descriptive statistics; topic detection; qualitative content analysis
29/04/2016–30/05/2016
Researcher for the FP7 project SEFIRA (Socio-Economic implication For
Individual Responses to Air pollution Policies)
Department of Pure and Applied Science, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino (Italy)
Data collection and analysis; digital methods; statistical analysis; report editing
09/03/2016–01/10/2016
Researcher for Technoscientific Issues in the Public Sphere (TIPS) project
University of Padova, Dpt. of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology - Section of
Sociology, Padua (Italy)
Automated text analysis; Qualitative content analysis; Text classification
16/12/2014–15/12/2015
Research Fellow for SEFIRA FP7 Project, at Department of Economy Society and
Politics, University of Urbino Carlo Bo
University of Urbino, Carlo Bo, Urbino (Italy)
Data collecting and analysis, in particular: Interview conduction; Focus group conduction; Qualitative
content analysis; Statistical analysis; Qualitative content analysis; Document analysis; Report editing.
01/03/2010–01/12/2014
Junior researcher for the project "Science in the Media Monitor"
Observa - Science in Society, Vicenza (Italy)
Data collecting and analysis; Longitudinal analysis of media trends; Qualitative content analysis;
Report editing
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Curriculum vitae
01/02/2014–30/04/2014
Paolo Giardullo, Ph.D.
Visiting scholar at Geography Division, Faculty of Science, Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven (Belgium) within SEFIRA project.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven (Belgium)
Data collecting and analysis; Qualitative content analysis; Document analysis; Report editing
01/02/2013–30/06/2013
Junior researcher “Integrated risk-benefit analysis as support and evaluation tool
for alimentary education strategies”, (second leg: qualitative research phase,
further investigation on ex-post outcomes).
Observa - Science in society, Vicenza (Italy)
Data collecting and analysis; Interview and focus group conducting; Qualitative content analysis;
Report editing
01/12/2011–28/02/2012
Junior researcher for the project “Health communication, blood donation and
digital media – Web coverage analysis using digital ethnography approach”
Observa - Science in Society, Centro Nazionale Sangue, Vicenza (Italy)
Data collecting and analysis; Cool hunting; Health communication; Web-sites qualitative content
analysis; Report editing
01/10/2011–31/12/2011
Survey interviewers co-ordinator for the project "Social representation of
nanotechnology 2011-2012"
University of Padova, Padova (Italy)
Survey interviewer; Research team field-work co-ordination
01/08/2011–31/10/2012
Research assistant for the project “Integrated risk-benefit analysis as support and
evaluation tool for alimentary education strategies” (first leg: quantitave research
investigation)
University of Padova, Padova (Italy)
Data collecting and analysis; Descriptive statistical analysis; Evaluative research design; Report
editing
01/03/2011–31/07/2011
Research assistant for the research project “Science on the TV-screen”
University of Padova, Padova (Italy)
Data collecting and analysis; Qualitative content analysis; Report editing
01/03/2010–31/05/2010
Survey interviewer for FP7 European project “I.R.I.S. - Interest and Recruitment In
Science”,
Observa - Science in Society, Vicenza (Italy)
Data collecting and analysis; Qualitative content analysis; Report editing
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
01/11/2011–11/11/2016
PhD in Sociology of Cultural Phenomena and Normative Process.
Thesis: Environmental policies and social complexity: the case of air
quality policy [SPS/10 Sociology of Environment and Territory]
EQF level 8
University of Urbino, Carlo Bo, Urbino (Italy)
Social theory; Sociology; Methodology for social research; Mixed-Method research design;
Interviewing; Statistical analysis; Content analysis
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Curriculum vitae
10/2007–02/2010
Paolo Giardullo, Ph.D.
Master of Arts in Sociology (Evaluation 110/110 cum Laude) Thesis:
Alarm narration and communication – The Swine flu case. Faculty
of Political Sciences, University of Padua.
EQF level 7
Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Padova, Padova (Italy)
Descriptive statistical analysis; Quantitative content analysis; Qualitative content analysis; Media
monitoring; Social research design; Mixed methods
10/2003–10/2007
Bachelor of Arts in Sociological Sciences (Evaluation 100/110)
Thesis: Security guard working condition.
EQF level 6
Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Padova, Padova (Italy)
Qualitative content analysis; Qualitative interviewing; Qualitative research design
09/1998–07/2003
High school diploma (Evaluation 60/100)
EQF level 4
Liceo Scientifico Statale “G. Marinelli”, Udine (Italy)
PERSONAL SKILLS
Mother tongue(s)
Italian
Other language(s)
UNDERSTANDING
SPEAKING
WRITING
Listening
Reading
Spoken interaction
Spoken production
English
B2
B2
B2
B2
B2
French
B2
B2
B2
B2
B1
Spanish
A2
B1
A2
A2
A1
Friulano
C1
C2
C1
C1
B2
Levels: A1 and A2: Basic user - B1 and B2: Independent user - C1 and C2: Proficient user
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Communication skills
Excellent communication skills acquired both during academic research and in education
Excellent interaction skills with public officers, high-school professors and students acquired as
interviewer (negotiating the fieldwork)
Excellent interaction and communication skills within research co-workers (presently member of
several research teams)
Organisational / managerial skills
Good organisational skills in research team (presently member of several research teams)
Good managerial skills in job co-ordination (former co-ordinator of research teams in four different EU
countries for joint deliverable writing and editing; former co-ordinator of ten interviewers in five different
Italian regions)
Job-related skills
Mixed-Method Research design development (experience in research teams)
Methodology of social sciences (experience in research teams)
Social-network analysis of web-sites (experience in digital methods analysis for publication)
Descriptive statistical analysis (analysis of media trends on web and newspapers, secondary analysis)
Questionnaire projecting (six questionnaire waves administered and/or edited)
Content analysis and topic detection (experience in longitudinal media analysis)
Interview conduction (more than fifty semistructured interviews conducted)
Focus group conduction (research experience)
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Presenting and public speech (several seminars and presentation given both in Italian and in English)
Report writing and editing (several reports presented and articles submitted)
Digital competence
SELF-ASSESSMENT
Information
processing
Communication
Content
creation
Safety
Problem
solving
Proficient user
Proficient user
Proficient user
Proficient user
Independent user
Digital competences - Self-assessment grid
Excellent mastery in Microsoft Office software in particular text, sheets, DB creation and management,
multimedia presentation software
Good mastery with IBM-SPSS 20 for social statistics analysis
Good skills in content analysis with highly proficient use of CAQDAS several software packages
including ATLAS-T QDA, QSR-Nvivo 10 and good skills in QDA-Miner and Word-Stat6 add-on for
quantitative content analysis
Long lasting experience in web crawling softwares Issuecrawler, Navicrawler, Webometric Analyst
and allied tools, useful for online network analysis even
Good skills in MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit (MALLET) for topic detection
Good skills in Gephi 0.8.1 software for network analysis
Good skills in Adobe Lightroom Photoshop and Gimp for image editing
Other skills
Fotography: amatorial level
Musician (bass player): amatorial level
Driving licence
B
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Research interests
Environmental issues: Environmental policy analysis through STS perspective; Consumption analysis
within practice theory approach.
Mixed-Methods Research: Quantification of qualitative data; Mixed research design; Digital methods.
Media analysis: Content analysis; Web-site analysis; Daily newspapers analysis including topic
detection and longitudinal analysis.
Data science: Web and open data; Platform design for integrating different data sources; Social
network analysis and GIS application to web and open data.
Training
20th-25th June 2016: Summer School "Tackling Transparency: the methodological challenges of
research on Disclosing Sustainability" organized by Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS),
Environmental Policy, Wageningen Institute for Environment and Climate Research (WIMEK),
Wageningen Universiteit, Wageningen (The Netherlands)
October-November 2014: Workshop Series on "Digital methods for critical research" organized and
co-ordinated by DSPGI, University of Padua and DSSR, University of Trento (Italy)
25th-28th May 2009: School for high quality education, Italian Sociology Association: "Giornate nonstandard", Le interviste semi-strutturate [Semi-structured inteviews], Catholic University of Sacred
Heart, Brescia (Italy)
Publications
Giardullo P, Spreading mosquitoes: a media analysis of Italian national newspapers about mosquitoes
borne diseases and related intervention (forthcoming) in Claeys C. and Richard Lalou (Edit by),
Mosquitoes management: between environmental and health issues, Peter Lang European editions
GIARDULLO P, Vittorio Sergi, Wim Carton, Anneleen Kenis, Chris Kesteloot, Yuri Kazepov, Dominik
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Kobus, Michela Maione, Krzysztof Skotak, Sandro Fuzzi, Francesca Pollini. Air quality from a social
perspective in four European metropolitan areas: Research hypothesis and evidence from the
SEFIRA project. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY, ISSN: 1462-9011,
doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2016.05.002
S Crovato, A Pinto, GIARDULLO P, G Mascarello, F Neresini, L Ravarotto (2016). Food safety and
young consumers: testing a serious game as a risk communication tool. FOOD CONTROL, ISSN:
0956-7135, doi: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2015.10.009
Sergi V., GIARDULLO P., Kazepov Y., Maione M., (2016) Can concern for air quality improvement
increase the acceptability ofclimate change mitigation policies?, in Leal Filho, W., Azeiteiro, U.M.,
Alves, F. (Eds) 2016. "Climate Change and Health: improving resilience and reducing risks",
SPRINGER "Climate Change Management Series"
Giardullo P., (2015) Book review Experts and Campaigners: scientific information and collective action
in socio-ecological conflicts of MercedesMartínez-Iglesias (ed), València: Universitat de València,
2014 in Tecnoscienza. The Italian Journal of Science and Technology Studies vol. 6, p. 164-167,
ISSN: 2038-3460
GIARDULLO, P. and Neresini F., (2015) La governance della produzione alimentare nel dibattito
pubblico italiano, Amministrare rivista dell'Istituto Italiano di Scienza dell'Amministrazione vol. 45, p.
205-234, ISSN: 0044-8141, doi: 10.1442/80279
Giardullo,P. (2015). Does 'bigger'mean 'better'? Pitfalls and shortcuts associatedwith big data for social
research, in “Quality & Quantity" 1-19. 10.1007/s11135-015-0162-8
GIARDULLO P. and Lazzer G.P. (2014), Digital texts' infrastructure: reading and writing practices at
the digital turning point, in Mongili A. and Pellegrino G. (eds) “Information infrastructure", Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, UK p. 166-188
GIARDULLO P., Lorenzet A. (2013), La ricerca emergente nei media: nanotecnologie, neuroscienze,
biologia sintetica e proteomica, in A. Lorenzet e F. Neresini (eds.), Annuario di Scienza e Società, Il
Mulino, Bologna, pp. 39-47.
Giardullo P. (2012), Actors in public representation of risk: a comparison using the Observa Science in
the Media Monitor, in Quality, Honesty and Beauty in Science and Technology Communication.
Proceedings of 12th International Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference
Florence, Italy, 18th-20th April 2012. p. 281-288
Conferences
11th November 2016 Turismo esperienziale 2.0: il caso della ristorazione in Valle d'Aosta su
TripAdvisor, with Maria Giovanna Onorati. Convegno Scritture e linguaggi del turismo, Aosta (Italy)
10th-11th November 2016
12th July 2016 Do air quality policies and individual attitudes meet? Four European metropolitan
areas for a comparative exploration, with Vittorio Sergi and Yuri Kazepov. Third ISA Forum of
Sociology, THE FUTURES WE WANT: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World, Vienna
10th-14th July 2016. Session: Environmental Attitudes, Opinions and Perceptions in Comparative
Context. Session Chairs: Riley Dunlap (Oklahoma State University, Stillwater), Sandra Marquart-Pyatt
(Michigan State University, East Lansing).
11th July 2016 Medial and political agendas: monitoring issues, assigning "political ownership", with
Federico Neresini. Third ISA Forum of Sociology, THE FUTURES WE WANT: Global Sociology and
the Struggles for a Better World, Vienna 10-14 July 2016. Session: Contemporary Power, Symbolisms
and Narratives By the Media. Session Chair: Christiana Constantapoulou (Panteion Univerisity,
Athens)
18th February 2016 Heterogeneous data, homogeneous management: an interdisciplinary-crafted
platform for real-time text collection, processing and representation, with Alberto Cammozzo. DATA
SCIENCE & SOCIAL RESEARCH International Conference Naples, February 17-19 2016. Session:
Research infrastructures: data archiving and data preservation. Session chair: Sonia Stefanizzi
(University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan)
5th October 2015, La "governance" della produzione alimentare nel dibattito pubblico italiano, EXPO
MILANO 2015, ALIMENTAZIONE, SICUREZZA ALIMENTARE, presentation and discussion of
Amministrare 2/3 2015 special issue "EXPO MILANO 2015, ALIMENTAZIONE, SICUREZZA
ALIMENTARE"
11th May 2015 Behavioural Change in IAM: the SEFIRA Project Maione M., E. Valeri, P.
GIARDULLO, P. Polidori, V. Gatta, V. Sergi, M.L. Williams and Y. Kazepov APPRAISAL FINAL
CONFERENCE, Bruxelles
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13th June 2014 – Presentation of the paper “When 'bigger' means 'better'? Shortcuts and pitfalls
coming from Big Data for social researchers" at 5th STS-Italia national conference “A matter of design:
making society through science and technology", Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy. Session
Chairs: Prof. Federico Neresini (University of Padova, Italy), Davide Bennato, Ph.D. (University of
Catania, Italy), Francesca Musiani (Ecole de Mines-Paris Tech, France) and Annalisa Pellizza
(University of Twente, The Netherlands).
17th-20th September 2013 - Poster session “Social acceptability of air quality policies: notes about
Greenweek's audience perspective on air-quality problems", Symposium Accent Plus 2013, University
of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy
27th August 2013 – Poster session “Fight fire with fire: forcing the ivory tower of risk management" at
11th European Sociological Association (ESA-2013) Conference, Research Network of Environment
and Society (RN12), University of Turin, Italy
2nd July 2013 – Presentation of the paper “Fight fire with fire: forcing the ivory tower of risk
management" at 9th Sociology Intellectual Party, at Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster,
United Kingdom. Session Chair: Prof. John Urry (Lancaster University)
23rd June 2012 – Presentation of the paper “Digital texts. Between reading and writing" (in
collaboration with Dr. Gian Paolo Lazzer) at STS-Italia 4th national conference “Emerging
technologies, social worlds" in Rovigo, Italy. Session Chairs: Maurizio Teli and Stefano de Paoli (Ahref
Foundation)
20th April 2012 – Presentation of the paper “Actors in public representation of risk" at International
conference Public Communication of Science and Technology 2012 (PCST-2012) “Quality, honesty
and beauty in the public communication of science and technology" in Florence, Italy. Session Chair:
Andrew Pleasant (Canyon Ranch Institute)
Seminars
23rd February 2016: "Prospettiva mixed-methods research e STS - superamento dei paradigmi?"
given within the Pa.S.T.I.S. seminars, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied
Psychology University of Padua
14th-16th December 2015: Short cycle of seminars on Internet and society in "Sociology of
innovation" to BA students in Sociological Science, University of Padova (Italy)
27th March 2014: “Actor-Network Theory approach in an environmental public debate controversy"
given within Political Ecology Reading Group in Geography Division, Faculty of Science at the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
9th May 2013 “Politiche per la qualità dell'aria: aspetti sociali e implicazioni individuali", given to First
level degree of Academic Diploma in Graphic Projecting and Visual Communication at High Institute
of Artistic Industries, Urbino (Italy)
28th November 2012: “Rischio e percezione pubblica: uno studio di caso per la sociologia
dell'ambiente", given at the course of Environmental Sociology of the Bachelor of Art in Sociology and
social service, Faculty of Sociology – DESP, University of Urbino Carlo Bo (Italy).
8th March 2012: “Internet sta cambiando la scienza e la società?" with Andrea Lorenzet and Stefano
Crabu (University of Padua), I cycle of Pa.S.T.I.S. seminars, Department of Philosophy, Sociology,
Education and Applied Psychology University of Padua
26th January 2012: “Internet e il capitale sociale: una lettura dei legami sociali con le lenti della rete",
given during the course of Sociology of Knowledge of the Bachelor of Art in Sociological Sciences
Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology University of Padua
Memberships
Member of STS – Italia, Italian Association of Science and Technology studies
Member International Sociological Association (ISA)
Member of European Sociological Association (ESA)
Fellow of the research unit Pa.S.T.I.S. – Padua Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, Padua
FISPPA - Department University of Padua
Other scientific activities
Peer review:
Reviewer for the Special issue of Italian Journal of Sociology of Education (Padua University Press)
titled "Media literacy, social inclusion and personal wellbeing: research policies and best
practices"Reviewer for the Special issue of Energy Research and Social Science (Elsevier) on
"Energy transitions in Europe: emerging challenges, innovative approaches and possible solutions"
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(guest editors: Mauro Sarrica, Paolo Cottone, Sonia Brondi), February 2016, Vol. 12Reviewer for
Asian Social Science Journal open-access journal published by the Canadian Center of Science and
Education.
Conference:
Member of Organizing committee of 6th STS Italia Conference "Socio-technical Environments" 24th26th November 2016
Chair of parallel session (together with Sonia Brondi) on "Environmental sustainability, socio-technical
transitions and practices" within 6th STS-Italia Conference "Socio-technical Environments" 24th-26th
November 2016
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