Curriculum

Giuseppina CERSOSIMO Curriculum

Academic position
Full Professor of Sociology, Department of Political and Social Studies – University of Salerno

She teaches Sociology – University of Salerno - Giuseppina CERSOSIMO | Teaching (unisa.it)

She has taught from the academic year 2005- 6 to the academic year 2007- 2008 Sociology of Deviancy at the Degree Course in Social Science in the University Cà Foscari –Venice.

Background and Training
Master Degree in Sociology - University of Salerno

Ph. D. in Ethics and Philosophy of politics and law University of Salerno
Post-graduate Course of Innovation Policy, organized by CIES (Center for Economic and Social Engineering) at the University of Calabria.

Post-graduate course: Survey during epidemics. Surveys and other studies: transforming scientific results into actions, organized by the High Institute for Health – Roma (Rome)


Main Fields of research: Symbolic Interactionism, Social Theory, Sociology of health and medicine; obesity and body relations; new biomedical possibilities; and new ethical aspects of human action in the age of digital technology. Research on social and health integration, gender, deviance, active ageing, well-being, quality of life and life course, new forms of family organisation and disorganisation.

Editorial activity

  • Since 2019 - Member of the Editorial Board Series Interpretive Lenses in Sociology, Bristol University Press.
  • Since 2018 - Member of the Comitato Scientifico della Rivista Salute e Società (Fascia A) Franco Angeli
  • From 2017 to 2021 - Member the “Editorial Board Member” SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Methods (“Encyclopedia”).
  • Since 2017 - Member of the Comitato Scientifico della collana DeviAzioni, Meltemi Editore;
  • Since 2017 - Member of the “Comitato Scientifico della Collana Interactio, PM edizioni.
  • Since 2017 - Member of the “Comitato Scientifico della Collana “Epion – Il lavoro interprofessionale per la cura della persona”, Edizioni Tangram, Trento.
  • Since 2013 - Member the “ Comitato Scientifico della rivista Sicurezza e Scienze Sociali, Franco Angeli, Milano.
  • Since 2009 - Member the Scientific Committee of Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series VII Social Sciences Law.
  • Since 2008 - Director Explorations, a series edited by Kurumuny publisher, Lecce.
  • From 2003 to 2018 - Scientific secretary of the editorial board (Section Campania region) of Salute e Società (Journal Health and Society), Franco Angeli.

Other scientific activities

  • Since October 2021 – Coordinator of Ph.D. Program in Social Theory, Digital Innovation and Public Policies Department of Political and Social Studies - University of Salerno (Italy)
  • Since 2019 - Member of the Teachers of the Ph.D. in Social Theory, Digital Innovation and Public Policies -University of Salerno.
  • Since 2013 - Scientific Coordinator for the University of Salerno of the C.R.I.S.A. (Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sull'Invecchiamento Sano e Attivo) Inter-University Centre for Research on Healthy and Active Ageing
  • From 2014 to 2018 - Member of the Board RC11 Research Committee on Sociology of Aging, ISA - International Sociological Association
  • From 2012 to 2019 - Secretary of the Observatory for the diffusion of Gender studies and Equal Opportunity Culture – University of Salerno
  • From 2012 to 2015 - Member of the Teachers of the Ph.D. in Translational Medicine in Development and Active Ageing.
  • From 2008 to 2011 - Member of the Committee in Ph.D. in Sociology of Social Analysis and Public Policy, University of Salerno.
  • From 2009 to 2012 - Member of the Board Italian Society for the Sociology of Health (SISS).
  • From 2003 to 2009 - Member of the Technical and Scientific Committee and the Ethics Committee of the Asl Avellino 2.

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