Team
Our multidisciplinary group investigates the social, cultural, and technological forces that define todayโs complex sociotechnical landscape. Through collaborative inquiry and innovative methodologies, we work to understand emerging online harms and to design evidence-based pathways that contribute to more just, inclusive, and equitable environments.
Principal Investigator
University of Bologna
Social scientist focusing on digital criminology and online harms. Her scholarship explores how harmful behaviours, criminal opportunities, and regulatory gaps emerge within contemporary sociotechnical systems, mapping the cultural, technological, and institutional forces that shape their development and evolution.
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Bologna
An interdisciplinary researcher whose work combines methods from computer science, digital sociology, and digital humanities to analyse internet culture. She investigates platformed toxicity, polarisation dynamics, and gendered participation through the lens of Feminist theories.
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Bologna
Qualitative sociologist with mixed-methods expertise in the sociology of deviance and cybercrime research. His scholarship examines how digital environments shape forms of antisocial behaviour and social regulation, analysing the interplay between institutional norms, platform affordances, and communicative practices.
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Bologna
Computational sociologist and data scientist analysing digital deviance and platform ecosystems. His work integrates large-scale data analysis with cultural inquiry to explore how antisocial behaviour develops online and how platform structures influence its evolution.
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Bologna
Qualitative sociologist with expertise in ethnographic methods applied to the sociology of deviance and health. His work focuses on the intersection of knowledge, power, and social regulation, examining how institutional and sociotechnical environments shape everyday practices.
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Bologna
Legal scholar specialising in legal informatics, documentality, and the philosophy of law. His research examines platform governance, social media self-regulation, and judicial cases involving antisocial behaviours.
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Bologna
Quantitative researcher with specific expertise in the study of political participation and social power. His research integrates theoretical and empirical analysis to examine how structural inequalities and socio-psychological factors operate across physical and digital environments, drawing on a critically informed approach rooted in heterodox social theory.
Research Collaborator
United Kingdom
Country Expert
Finland
Country Expert
The Netherlands
Advisory Board Member
University of Biaลystok
Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Law
Advisory Board Member
University of Lausanne
Full Professor in Criminology at the Faculty of Law, Criminal Justice and Public Administration
Advisory Board Member
Newcastle University Law School
Professor in Law and Emerging Technologies
Advisory Board Member
University of Cambridge
Professor of Emergent Harms in the Security Group at the Computer Laboratory
Advisory Board Member
University of Hamburg
Professor of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
Advisory Board Member
University of Milan-Bicocca
Associate Professor of Human Technology Interaction
Advisory Board Member
University of Portsmouth
Professor of Cybercrime and Gender in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice