To develop the enhancement of applicable knowledge and to provide a more complete view of the subjects as well as to have a comparison with international scholars, the Teaching Board of the PhD Course in Work, Development and Innovation participates every year in Unimore’s Visiting Professor calls, which provide for the inclusion of courses and seminars in the Course’s teaching programme.
The professors who have been part of these calls in recent years are:
a.a. 2025 – 2026
Michael Kleinaltenkamp
Seminar: Theorizing in Business Research
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Enrico Baraldi
Seminar: Value chain disruptions: policies addressing shortages in antibiotics global value chains
Lorena Blasco Arcas
Seminar: Responsible and Relevant Scientific Research in Social Sciences: Keys to Academic and Societal Impact
a.a. 2024 – 2025
David Mangan
Cycle of Seminars: Academia in Times of Transition: The Impact of Digitalisation on Our Work
• Institutional theory and its contemporary streams: application to own research and examples from smart city and management research
• Smart city management dynamics: role of metrics, politics, bureaucratization and citizens
• Analysing soft data
Evgenii Aleksandrov
Ciclo seminari: Smart city management through institutional theories and soft data analysis
• Institutional theory and its contemporary streams: application to own research and examples from smart city and management research
• Smart city management dynamics: role of metrics, politics, bureaucratization and citizens
• Analysing soft data
Francesco Manca
Ciclo seminari: Introduction to Health technology Assessmen
• General concepts of Health Economics and HTA: a general overview
• Principles of Economic Evaluation: Introduction to Modelling, decision trees and Markov models
• Summary of Decision modelling sessions. Common econometric tools for the evaluation of public health interventions
a.a. 2023 – 2024
Tiziana Callari
Ciclo seminari: Epistemological and Methodological Considerations in Qualitative Research
• Designing a qualitative research design study
• Case study
• Thematic analysis as a Family of approaches (I)
• Thematic analysis as a Family of approaches (II)
• Performing a literature review – Online Seminar
Angela O’Hagan
Ciclo seminari: Gender Budgeting: A tool for feminist policy change? Perspectives on practice
• Comparative gender budgeting
• Understanding institutional resistances to gender budgeting
• Women’s participation in economic policy making
• Advancing gender equality in research organisations
2022-23
Timothy King
Ciclo seminari: Financial innovation: regulation, governance and technology issues
• Disruptive Technology in Banking: the role of FinTech
• Bank-FinTech relationship: which effects on performance and visibility of FinTechs
• Corporate governance in the financial sector
• Regulating the banking and financial sector
Yelda Yucel
Cycle of seminars: Engendering economics and public policies: Well-being and rights-based approaches
• Gender, Macroeconomics and Crises
• Gender Inequalities in the Access to the Labour Market and in Working hours
• Gender, Trade and Decent Work
• Well-Being, Human rights and Human Rights Cities in Turkey
• Gender Sensitivity of Policy Tools through Human Rights and Well-Being
2021-22
Marta Otto
Cycle of seminars: Bridging human resources to human rights
• The foundations of privacy and data protection in employment in Europe
• People Analytics in the Age of Big Data: An Agenda for Labour Law Regulation?
• Innovation and (Pseudo) Managerial Legitimations: The Equivocal Paths of Operational Autonomy in EU Academia
• The Polish labour law resilience to digital reconfiguration. Lessons from the coronavirus pandemic
Tiziana Callari
Cycle of seminars: Qualitative Research Design and Analysis Techniques
• Designing a qualitative research design project/ intervention
• Qualitative Content Analysis
• Thematic Analysis
• Performing a literature review analysis using NVivo
2020-21
Susan Bisom-Rapp
Cycle of seminars: The 21st Century Challenges Facing American Workplace Law
• An introduction to the US employment and labour law system
• US EEO law: job security, managerial practice, and the case of age and gender
• Technology and the workplace
• The COVID-19 crisis
Gianmarco Campagnolo
Cycle of seminars: The role of informal networks in technological innovation
• Introduction to the study of informal networks
• The biography of artefacts and practices framework
• Studying networks using social media data
• The case of independent film makers
• The case of freelance football analysts
• Group discussion and wrap up
Gulay Gunluk Senesen
Cycle of seminars: Identification of the impacts of the pandemic and scenarios for restructuring
• Input-Output Modelling of Employment and Scenarios
• Urban Wellbeing –Municipality policies with Indicators
• Online office hours
2019-20
Catherine Deffains-Crapsky
Cycle of seminars: Alternative Finance
• An overview of alternative finance today
• The difficulty to fund startups
• Aims at dealing with funding sustainable entrepreneurship through crowdfunding.
Paula Rodriguez-Mondroño
Cycle of seminars: Economics and labour: analytical tools
• Employment in the gig economy: new forms of work and working conditions
• Gender segregation in the labour market
• School-to-work transition regimes and youth employment programs
• Innovation and social capital: the role of networks