Dr. Rossella Ciccia is Lecturer in Social Policy, Queen’s University Belfast and Marie-Sklodowska-Curie-Fellow, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence.
Rossella Ciccia, in her work on gender and welfare states, has a steady track record of solid theoretical and methodological innovation. She is a creative and rigorous scholar with exceptional expertise in comparative social policy, inequality and care. In this, she has worked with, and influenced, a wide range of colleagues across Europe. In her work she pushes disciplinary boundaries, more recently by integrating attention to the role of contentious politics and social movements in analysis of welfare state reform. She collaborates with several research communities, including the Gender Equality Policy in Practice (GEPP) research network which advances knowledge on what happens with policies in real life implementation. She is a prolific conference organizer, promoting new perspectives, most lately in the 2019 conference she organised with others in Florence on “Feminist alliances: the discourses, practices and politics of solidarity among inequalities”. These contributions, combined with her vast knowledge on welfare state dynamics and impacts, show great promise for the future.
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