Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Head of the Research Institute of Social Work, senior lecturer in Social Education and Social Policy. FHS St.Gallen, University of Applied Sciences

Professor for education, social pedagogy and youth welfare at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. Director of the research centre Coping and Education in the Life Course.

Valeria Piro is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology and Business Law of the University of Bologna, where she is investigating, through participant observation, styles and spaces of youth participation. Valeria Piro has obtained a PhD in Sociology at the University of Milan in September 2015, discussing a thesis focused on migrant labor in agriculture, based on an ethnographic research realized in the South of Italy.

PhD Student at the University of Bologna

PhD in Childhood Studies, lecturer and researcher at the Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg.

European Project Manager at EHESP of Rennes

Ph.D doctor Researcher at the Department of Education, University of Bologna

Head of Centre: Childhood,Youth and Community Faculty of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University