Teaching

DESCRIPTION

A Triple transition ecological, social and digital society (OECD, 2023), presents new challenges to our contemporary world, particularly for the social and economic implications of these changes. The challenges pertain questions of equality, diversity and inclusion for the development and sustainability of complex global and hypertechnological societies. Identifying and addressing these rapid and radical transformations both at the institutional and at the personal and community level require an in-depth multidisciplinary training integrating differents scientific domains through an inter-, trans- as well as multidisciplinary approach.

The Human Sciences for Innovation, Inclusion and Sustainability Ph.D. program aims to train scholars capable of analysing, interpreting and managing social, ecological and digital transitions, assessing their consequences in their multifaceted manifestations of marginalization and diversity issues —particularly in crisis situations— with the goal of elaborating specific responses and planning innovative practices. A rigorous theoretical-methodological as well as practical training can provide interpretative frameworks and tools to comprehend the complexity of the changes impacting the contemporary world, especially at the systemic and subjective level.

The Human Sciences for Innovation, Inclusion and Sustainability Ph.D. program aims to train highly qualified professionals that can liaise between the academic world on one hand and the cultural and industrial sectors on the other one, making them agents of change in line with the 2030 sustainable development agenda.

Among the pillars of the Horizon Europe 2021-2027 program for research and innovation the research paths structuring the Ph.D. program privilege Pillar 1-Excellent Science and Pillar 2-Global challenges and European industrial competitiveness.

The two curricula, share a theoretical-methodological common ground providing professionals with the apt strategic competences to reserach and analyse the socio-economic dimensions of current transformations, and to evaluate and regulate their effects.

CURRICULUM STRUCTURE

1. The “Human and Social Sciences, Media and Performance Studies” curriculum, privileges the competences necessary to identify, manage, and intervene in the social and cultural consequences of the current transitions.

2. The “Organisational Sciences” curriculum,  privileges the administrative competences of the triple (social, digital and ecological) transition in its impact on social, political and economic organisations, combining a historical and juridical perspective with a training in statistics to analyse the quantitative level these phenomena.

Common to both curricula is a methodological foundation providing both in-depth analytical tools and the mastery of available research and planning tools. A multidisciplinary and mixed methods approach intends to integrate in the curriculum innovative technologies and techniques to gather and analyse data with traditional tools and techniques deriving from qualitative, quantitative and experimental research, such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, random-control trials, standardised measurements, analysis of historical sources and legislation, statistical analysis, big data, visual methods, machine learning, psychological research. At the same time, the training will specifically address the techniques of scientific and academic writing, the ethical component in research, innovative modalities of communicating research results in different contexts (scientific, corporate, political, cultural, etc.), as well as forms of disseminating and transfering the acquired competences.  In order to internationalise the traininig and the dissemination of the research results the English-language Ph.D. program includes, starting preferably with the second year, a research stay abroad of at least 6 months. It promotes agreements with foreign institutions to enable co-tutorship by foreign scholars who shall also be present as visiting professors throughout the lessons and seminars of the Ph.D program.

OBJECTIVES

The Human Sciences for Innovation, Inclusion and Sustainability Ph.D. program aims to provide students with the scientific and methodological tools to conduct innovative base and field research, in the academic, corporate, public and private contexts. The highly qualifying program prepares for both the academic careers and the new professions to manage the complexity of the transition in the many sectors affected by it.

Among the knowledges and competences imparted are:

- Interdisciplinary competences meant to comprehend and interpret the complexity of the current transitions, as well as to study their dynamics and possible developments;

- capacità critica di analisi dei processi di transizione in atto e delle relative forme di disciplina, istituzionali e non, contemperando le esigenze di garanzia del pieno sviluppo delle trasformazioni ecologiche, digitali e sociali, con quelle legate alla sostenibilità e alla partecipazione dei diversi soggetti coinvolti nei processi in corso;

- Critical analysis of the current transitions and the institutional and non-institutional forms of discipline, so as to align a full development of the ecological, digital and social transitions with sustainability and inclusive goals;

- Capability to envision, plan and implement change both at the macro and at the micro level to support the ecological, social and digital transition;

- Capability to envision, conduct and evaluate field research;

- Capability to communicate and disseminate research results at national and international conferences, winter and summer schools, through proposed publications and outreach initiatives;

- Capability to plan actions aiming to innovate, improve and accompany the changes induced by the triple transition;

- Writing, reserach, critical analysis and problem solving skills;

- Soft skills related to the ecological, technological and digital transitions, the forms of regulations, the empowerement of individuals, organisations and communities.

CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

Ph.Ds in Human Sciences for Innovation, Inclusion and Sustainability shall be able to navigate various contexts (cultural, social and corporate) within public, private and tertiary sector entities, both in Italy and abroad. The combination of the two curricula shall enable graduate students to build the most fitting professional path to respon to their personal inclinations and ambitions choosing among:

1. Intellectual professions in scientific research, at universities, national and international research centres, libraries and archives, private and/or public institutions of the audiovisual and performative sector, in private companies, consortia, production cycles and scientific parks.

2. Managerial and CEO roles in local, national, international and superntional institutions; in non-governmental national and international organisations, in the humanitarian or cultural fields, in private and public enterprises.

3. Consulting and managing roles in diversified and interconnected sectors such as sports, health-care, training institutions, technological transfer intitutions, the culture industry,  to promote sustainable growth and the climate and digital transitions; financial consulting and its ethical implications; organisational and managing consulting.

4. Managerial and coordination profiles in the ecologic and digital transition: consulting for private and public institutions to plan, implement and apply digital technologies and services, arts management, media industries (cinema and television) and live performance.

5. Juridical profiles ranging from digitalisation and sustainable growth, cybersecurity, implications related to the use of AI, human health and environmental safety, the European Green Deal.

CONSISTENCY WITH PNRR OBJECTIVES

The Ph.D. program intercepts three European-wide strategic goals: innovation and digitalisation, ecologic transition and social inclusion. The cultural and scientific vision behinid the doctorate in Human Sciences for Innovation, Inclusion and Sustainability aims to train qualified professionals who can respond to the technological, social and environmental challenges at the core of the Europen and national planning strategies for the years to come. For this reason, a multidisciplinary perspective applied to base research is preferred, resulting in building planning, management, communication and leadership competences to shape inclusive, sustainable and human-centered research, innovation and growth processes. With the aforementioned premises, the course aims at pursuing the following Missions identified by the PNRR:

- Mission 1: digitalisation, innovation, competitiveness, culture and tourism
- Mission 2: Green revolutions and ecologic transition
- Mission 3: Research and Education.