Michela Semprebon is Associate Professor at the University of Parma, in the Department of Law, Politics and International Studies, since November 1st 2024. She is currently the PI for the University of Parma Research Unit in the PRIN Project "VolACRoss: Volunteering across Crises: a comparative and longitudinal analysis of social innovation potential", co-managed with Paola Bonizzoni, PI of the Project and of the Università Statale di Milano Research Unit. She also collaborates in the Project OR.I.o.NE and in the Project "Social Boundaries in Educational Contexts: The Perspective of Border Studies", with Luca Giliberti, Annavittoria Sarli, Marco Romito. Previously she was Research Fellow at the Unesco SSIIM Chair of University Iuav in Venice (2017-2021), the University of Bologna (2015-2017) and the University of Milano-Bicocca (2006-2015) and Lecturer at the Politecnico in Milan (2015-2016), the University of Bologna (2016-2018) and the University of Bergamo ( 2018-2020). She was Visiting Researcher at the Haute Ecole des Sciences Sociales in Paris (2019) and at the Center for Migration, Policy and Society in Oxford (2015). She was part of the Erasmus+ PusH Project (Precarious Housing in Europe) (2020-2022) and of the EU INSigHT Project (Building Capacity to Deal with Human Trafficking and Transit Routes in Italy, Nigeria and Sweden) (2019-2021), within which she was PI. She also collaborated as Researcher in the projects: FAMI "CapaCityMetro" (Networks of (form) active action for the active inclusion of migrants in the metropolitan city of Venice) (2017-2018) /, FARB "Intergenerational relations and obligations between first and second generations of migrants" (2015-2017), PRIN "Small municipalities and social cohesion: urban policies and practices for the social and spatial inclusion of immigrants" (2011-2015), COST IS1102 SOS COHESION (2012-2015). Her research interests concern: local policies for the inclusion of migrants (reception systems, housing policies, educational contexts, volunteeering), unaccompanied minors and guardianship, human trafficking and severe exploitation, asylum determination, sociology of care and caregiving.
