Baldino Norma
Duration: 12 months (from 24/06/2024 to 23/07/2025)
Research Grant Title: “Socio-territorial Methods and Variables for Risk Analysis in Local Areas: Public Institutions, Strategic Communication, and Stakeholder Engagement.”
PRIN 2022 PNRR Project Title: “INSULANDER – Investigating the Strategic Role of Communication for Resilient Islands Coping with Disasters Risk Management” – Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Alessandro Lovari.

Norma Baldino is a sociologist and post-doctoral researcher within the PRIN PNRR Insulander project. Her research explores risk communication and media narratives of environmental disasters, with a focus on wildfires and floods in the insular contexts of Sardinia and Sicily. The aim is to analyse the role of media and institutions in the social construction of disasters through a mixed methods approach. The methodology combines media coverage analysis and qualitative content analysis, alongside in-depth interviews with institutional communicators and journalists. The research is currently in the phase of systematizing and interpreting empirical data.

Moreschini Iacopo 
Duration: 12 months (from 01/09/2024 to 31/08/2025)
Research Grant Title: “From High School to University: Assessing the Influence of Peers on Educational Inequalities.”
PRIN 2022 Project Title: “From High School to University: Assessing Peers' Influence in Educational Inequalities and Performances” – Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Isabella Sulis.

The research activity within the PRIN Peer-Up project focuses on the quantitative analysis of the influence of school and classroom environments on Italian students’ outcomes and educational choices, using INVALSI data. Multilevel models are employed to estimate the impact of schools and classes on the likelihood of underachievement in Italian and mathematics. A set of indicators is also developed to classify schools based on socio-economic inequalities and internal selection mechanisms. From the sample-based data, enriched with information on school management and teaching practices, synthetic scales (IRT) are derived to assess the effect of leadership styles and teaching practices on student performance.

Neironi Raimondo Maria 
Duration: 12 months (from 01/03/2024 to 30/08/2025)
Research Grant Title: “Mapping the Chinese Economic Presence in the Southern Shore of the Mediterranean.”
PRIN 2022 Project Title: “Italy-China 2030: Meeting the ‘Upgrading China Knowledge in Europe’ Challenge. An Assessment of Critical Issue-Areas in Sino-Italian Relations and of the Strategic Capacity Gap for Responsible Engagement” – Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Barbara Onnis.

Raimondo M. Neironi is Post-doctoral Research Fellow in History and Institutions of Asia at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Cagliari. He is also a Non-resident Research Fellow at T.wai – Torino World Affairs Institute (research programme: Indo-Pacific). Supervised by Prof. Barbara Onnis, and within the PRIN (Projects of Relevant National Interest) programme titled “Italy-China 2030: Meeting the upgrading China knowledge in Europe challenge. An assessment of critical issue-areas in Sino-Italian relations and of the strategic capacity gap for responsible engagement”, funded by the European Union, Neironi is conducting fieldwork research on the Chinese cultural diplomacy in Morocco. More specifically, he examines the cultural presence of the People’s Republic of China in the Kingdom of Morocco in educational, cultural and language learning fields.