Department of Cultures, Politics and Society

Research products

Courses

• COMPARATIVE EUROPEAN SOCIETIES (CPS0285/CPS0568)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
• SOCIOLOGIA - M-Z (SCP0390)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
• SOCIOLOGIA (M-Z) (SCP0390)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

Research topics

My profile in few words:

Cristina Solera is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society at the University of Turin and fellow at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin. Mainly through a life course and comparative perspective, her research focusses on the effect of education and class on women’s labour market participation and fertility, on care-work reconciliation practices and policies, on gendered divisions of unpaid work and new models of fatherhood, on gender inequalities in the labour market. She has taken part to various national and international projects and networks, such as Network of Excellence Equalsoc (funded by the European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme), Barriers Towards Eu Citizenship (funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme), Practices and Policies around Parenthood. Work-family balance and childcare in multicultural contexts (funded by Compagnia San Paolo). She is currently engaged in the National Relevant Project Gendering Academia (funded by Italian Ministry of University and Research) about causes and consequences of gender inequalities in academic careers. From February  2021 she is the scientific coordinator of MINDtheGEPs (Modifying Institutions by Developing Gender Equality Plans), funded by the EU research and innovation framework program Horizon 2020’s Science with and for Society funding scheme. She is also part of the faculty of the Graduate School in Social and Political Sciences/ Sociology and Methodology of Social Research (GSSPS/SOMET; Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Studies; NASP;  http://www.nasp.eu/nasp/)

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Research projects

• Modifying Institutions by Developing Gender Equality Plans
• Re-Balancing: REsearch organisations in search of a BALANCE IN gender policies and practices
• ChangIng Families, Changing insTitutions? [InFaCt]
• Rispondere alla crisi. Innovazione sociale, pratiche di cittadinanza, cambiamento istituzionale
• Practices and Policies around Parenthood. Work-family balance and childcare in multicultural contexts

Academic bodies

• Consiglio di Dipartimento

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