TO MAGNIFICO RETTORE OF UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
Prof. Gianluca VAGO
Via Festa del Perdono, 7 - 20122 Milano
Italy
Alba FERRERI
CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Surname
FERRERI
Name
Alba
Date of birth
[1, March, 1987]
PRESENT OCCUPATION
Appointment
Structure
PhD
Candidate
in University of Siena
comparative and European
Politics
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Degree
Course of studies
University
Degree
BA
Degree
in University
Political Science
Siena
Degree
MA Degree in
International and
Diplomatic
Sciences (LM-52
Scienze
Internazionali e
Diplomatiche)
University of
Siena
Master
II level Specializing
Master (Master di
II livello) in
Diplomatic and
International
University
Firenze
year of achievement of the
degree
of 2008
2010
of 2011
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Careers
(Preparazione alla
Carriera
Diplomatica e
Carriere
Internazionali)
PhD
PhD candidate in University
Comparative and Siena
European Politics
of as
of
2012
completion year:
2015)
(exp.
early
REGISTRATION IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Date
registration
2013
2013
2014
of Association
City
SISP (Società italiana di scienza politica – Italian
political science association)
Internet & Politics, Southern and
European Politics, Parliaments,
Political Representation,
Political Methodology ECPR
(European Consortium of Political
Research) standing groups (SGs)
Affiliated member of
EUROACADEMIA
http://euroacademia.eu/aboutus/
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Languages
English
French
Spanish
level of knowledge
Proficient user (certification CPE: - Cambridge Certificate
of Proficiency in English, lev. C2 CEFR)
Independent user (lev. B2 CEFR – academic writing course –
Master level)
Independent user (lev B2 CEFR – undergraduate courses)
AWARDS, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, SCHOLARSHIPS
Year
2014
Description of award
Certified ATLAS.ti Student trainer (Software http://atlasti.com/ )
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2012
PhD Scholarship: PhD in Comparative and European Politics (expiry date: Jan 2015)
2011
Higher Education Voucher, Tuscan Region
TRAINING OR RESEARCH ACTIVITY
As a PhD student, I am responsible for working towards the completion of my degree program,
particularly resulting in the final PhD dissertation (title: No more waiting for Godot – The Italian
parliament vis-à-vis the European economic governance: debating programmatic documents from
the Lisbon strategy to Europe 2020 (2001-2014); methodology: computer-assisted (relevant
softwares: Atlas.ti/Excel/STATA) analysis of parliamentary debates; claims-making analysis;
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sabrina Cavatorto)
The graduate school I am enrolled in offers all the teaching in English. Among the main
courses, "Comparative Political Institutions“, Prof. Blondel and Prof. Verzichelli; "Modern
Political Analysis", Prof. Cotta; "Introduction to Political Research“, Prof. Isernia. I have
also attended courses in Quantitative methods (with STATA, Dr. Smets), Bayesian methods
(with R packages, general intro, Dr. Prof. Steenbergen), Qualitative Comparative Analyis
(general intro, Dr. Prof. Wagemann) and Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis
(with Atlas.ti, Dr. Duchesne); intensive Atlas.ti training (including a web conferencing
workshop, 24-26 Sept 2014, Dr. Contreras)
I also collaborate with LAPS (Laboratorio di Analisi Politiche e Sociali, Social and Political
Sciences Lab)– www.laps.unisi.it: political and social surveys & data analysis
As a teaching Assistant (cultore della materia) in EU Politics (prof. Cavatorto) and
Methodology of Social Research (Metodologia della ricerca sociale, prof. Paolo Bellucci),
I have teaching duties and I constantly try to effectively contribute to the enhancement
of the students’ success.
Complementary to the Siena-based activities,
I have been Visiting PhD Student (Chercheuse Visitante) at the Centre Émile Durkheim – Sciences Po
Bordeaux (Jan 2014 -June 2014). Coordinator: Prof. Olivier Costa (o.costa@sciencespobordeaux.fr)
PROJECT ACTIVITY
Year
Project
2015
PRIN (Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale, Research Projects of National
Interest) 2012: collaboration with LAPS (aforementioned) activities, coordinator:
Prof. Isernia
CONGRESSES AND SEMINARS
Date
Title
Place
2013
SISP (Italian political science association) conference
Florence
(Italy), 12/14
Sept
Invited Participant at The Winter School “The Parliaments of Europe in Democracy
Promotion and Constitutional Transitions”,; funded by the European Commission within
the Erasmus Intensive Programmes [organized by a University network composed by the
School of Government of Luiss Guido Carli University; the Institute of Advanced Legal
Rome (Italy)
7-17 Jan
2014
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Studies of the University of London; the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of the University of
Bordeaux; the University of Hull]
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
Etsi Europa non daretur? Debating the crisis in the parliament: the Italian case (2011-2013)
(theme: the new European economic crisis and the role of national parliaments, paper
presented at the Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos - CSIC (Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas-Spanish National Research Council), invited speaker at the
weekly seminar
Teaching: intensive seminar on the role of national parliaments within the European
economic governance. Lecture in cooperation with Dr. Cavatorto in occasion of the teaching
modules to which University of Siena MA students (EU politics class) were exposed,
Madrid
(Spain) 26 Feb
Siena (Italy) 16
March
Teaching: intensive class on the role of the Italian parliament vis-à-vis the European
economic governance. Lecture in cooperation with Dr. Cavatorto in occasion of the teaching
modules to which University Rome La Sapienza PhD candidates were exposed,
Rome (Italy)
20 May
Discussant at the “SEMINAIRE DE L’AXE INSTITUTIONS” organized by the Centre Emile
Durkheim – Sciences Po Bordeaux: lecture by Dr. Stefano Braghiroli (Université de Tartu) on
"Democratic politics and voting dynamics in the EP: Looking at the link between represented
and representatives on the eve of the 2014 EP election.”
Bordeaux
(France)
March
24
PADEMIA (Parliamentary Democracy in Europe) conference
http://www.pademia.eu/events/annual-conference/
Brussels
(Belgium) 1213 June
ECPR Graduate Conference 2014 (co-chair and paper giver at the panel “The Economic and
Social Crisis and EMU: Where Now for the EU?”,
Innsbruck
(Austria), 3-5
July
2014
2014 SISP conference
Perugia
(Italy), 11/13
Sept
2014
ECPR (European Consortium of Political Research) General Conference
Glasgow
(Scotland), 36 Sept
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Capire le elezioni europee, Edizioni Accademiche Italiane, 2014 (publication of the MA Thesis)
Book Chapters
Friend Request Sent: EU identity and Turkey’s accession bid, in Papakostas, N. and Pasamitros, N. (eds.), Unraveling
Turkey, Inter Alia Collective Volume 1, Aug. ISBN: 798-618-80847-0-4 (www.interaliaproject.com/CV1.pdf).
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Armchair quarterback or Most Valuable Player? The Italian parliament debating economic planning with a crisis in
the offing (2006-2014) in: 'EU: Beyond the crisis. A debate on sustainable integrationism’; edited volume, the ‘Inter
Alia’ team. Accepted for publication by Springer (forthcoming 2015).
Cavatorto, S. e Ferreri, A., forthcoming: ‘Governance economica europea in tempi di crisi e scelte di policy
nazionali: l’austerità nel discorso parlamentare italiano’, in ‘Neoliberalismo all’Italiana, edited by Giulio Moini,
Ediesse, 2015
Articles in reviews
No more waiting: the European Semester as a time for bringing "Europe" back in parliamentary debating” (theme: the
new European economic crisis and the role of national parliaments) - Working Paper LPF no. 9/2014 (Laboratorio
Politica Comparata e Filosofia Pubblica, Centro di ricerca e documentazione Einaudi)
Convergence check”. The impact of the European dimension on party policy choice, forthcoming on ‘Geopolitica’
(http://www.geopolitica-rivista.org/ )
Articles currently under review
Buck-passing and blame-shifting? Parliamentarians debating budgetary issues in the shadow of the crisis: the Italian
experience (2006-2014): currently under review, journal Contemporary Italian Politics
The controversial character of young voters’ attitudes toward Europe: Evidence from the Eurovision debate project,
Co-authored with Luca Pinto, Andrea Pedrazzani (Unibo) and Riccardo Ladini (Unitn), Currently under review, journal
Comunicazione Politica
Backseat drivers? Parliamentarians debating the crisis: the Italian case (2008-2013), as part of the special issue
proposal titled ‘Europe and its Challenges:Criticism, Contestation and Euroscepticism (Guest Editor: dr. Simona
Guerra), currently under review, journal Government & Opposition
Book Reviews
How the EU really works” by Olivier Costa and Nathalie Brack, Ashgate, 2014 (forthcoming, EUSA Review)
Politics and the internet in comparative context: views from the cloud / edited by Paul Nixon, Rajash Rawal and Dan
Mercea. - London and New York: Routledge, 2013. - xviii, 255 p. - (Routledge research in political communication ;
11), The International Spectator, Vol. 49, No. 4 (December 2014)
“Politics and the internet in comparative context: views from the cloud / edited by Paul Nixon, Rajash Rawal and
Dan Mercea. - London and New York: Routledge, 2013. - xviii, 255 p. - (Routledge research in political
communication ; 11), The International Spectator, Vol. 49, No. 4 (December 2014)
“Policies and Policy Processes of the European Union by Laurie Buonanno and Neill Nugent” for the EUSA Review,
Spring 2013 (The European Union Studies Association Review,
http://www.eustudies.org/files/eusa_review/Spring%202014.pdf)
Reports
Report on “I giovani e l’Europa (Youth and Europe) – Indagine sulla popolazione studentesca dell’Università di Siena”,
LAPS (Laboratorio di Analisi Politiche e Sociali, Social and Political Sciences Lab), co-authored with Linda Basile,
Enrico Bellucci, Pierangelo Isernia and Francesco Olmastroni, University of Siena. Available at
http://www.laps.unisi.it/file_download/5/LAPS_Rapporto_EuropeDirect+COMPLETO.pdf
OTHER INFORMATION
ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence)
Expert Technician of territorial marketing diploma (University of Siena and Tuscan Region)
Enrolment to the registers of scientific collaborators: IRPET (Istituto Regionale per la Programmazione Economica
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della Toscana, Regional Institute for the Economic Planning, Tuscan Region, Italy) and Éupolis Lombardia (Institute for
research, stats and education, Lombardy Region, Italy)
Peer Reviewer for the European Journal of Political Research and for Geopolitica (http://www.geopoliticarivista.org/)
Declarations given in the present curriculum must be considered released according to art. 46 and
47 of DPR n. 445/2000.
The present curriculum does not contain confidential and legal information according to art. 4,
paragraph 1, points d) and e) of D.Lgs. 30.06.2003 n. 196.
Place and date: Siena, 16.02.2015
SIGNATURE
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