Research Research unitsUPS - Population and Society Unit

UPS - Population and Society Unit

 

Aims and activities of the research unit

UPS is the Population and Society Research Unit of the Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Application (DiSIA) of the University of Florence. UPS aims at sharing and disseminating the expertise developed in the socio-demographic research field by the researchers of DiSIA, in order to establish, renew and consolidate scientific partnerships with national and international research institutes and universities.

 

UPS leads research and dissemination activities in the fields of population and society with a multidisciplinary scientific approach.

 

UPS's main areas of scientific interest:
- family demography and life course;
- population health and well-being;
- causes and consequences of demographic ageing;
- international migrations;
- social inequality and stratification;
- statistical methods for the integration of different statistical data sources (e.g., traditional surveys and administrative data);
- sustainable development;
- construction of indicators of well-being and quality of life;
- evaluation of educational processes (e.g., value-added models and educational data mining);
- implementation of statistical information systems for the evaluation of public utility services;
- design and implementation of surveys for the study of social and demographic events at the local and national level.

 

UPS coordinates national and international projects on social and demographic issues based at DiSIA.

 

UPS disseminates the findings of its research projects and the activities of its members through seminars, articles published on magazines or international journals and DiSIA working papers, press releases and conferences.

 

UPS works in partnership with FloPS – Florence Population Studies – a collaboration agreement between the Department of Statistics, Computer Scince, Applications "G. Parenti" (DiSIA) of the University of Florence and the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute, for the development of joint research activities about population, life course and social inequalities.

 

Seminar series
The UPS seminars are included within the DiSIA seminar series.

 

Scientific coordinator
Daniele Vignoli

 

Participants

• DiSIA Faculty: Giammarco Alderotti, Bruno Bertaccini, Elisa Brini, Marco Cozzani, Gustavo De Santis, Maria Veronica Dorgali, Carlos Javier Gil Hernandez, Raffaele Guetto, Gabriele Lombardi, Alessandra Petrucci, Elena Pirani, Emilia Rocco, Valentina Tocchioni, Daniele Vignoli
• DiSIA post-doc researchers: Sabbiana Cunsolo, Giulia Feltrin, Alessandro Gallo, Carla Galluccio,  Patrizio Lodetti, Samuele Milone, Maria Francesca Morabito, Revathi Palat Rao, Ewa Weychert
• DiSIA PhD students: Andrea Ballerini, Beatrice Cacciamani, Kristina Dorofeeva, Paolomaria Fabrizio
• Other UniFI collaborators: Giacomo Bazzani, Marco Bontempi, Camilla Matera, Luciana Lazzeretti, Chiara Rapallini

 

Contacts
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Current projects

• AGE-It, Ageing Well in an Ageing Society – Research Programme funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (~115 million Euros)
• ELESTI, The pre-Covid-19 stall in life expectancy in Italy: looking for explanations – PRIN Project, Miur (2023-2025)
• KINHEALTH, Beyond the nuclear family: Extended kinship and mental health in Italy – PRIN PNRR 2022 Project, Miur (2023-2025)
• PEER-UP,  From high school to university: Assessing peers' influence in educational inequalities and performances – PRIN Project, Miur (2023-2025)
• WelFerPoli, Well-being and Fertility Policies – PRIN PNRR 2022 Project, Miur (2023-2025)

 

Past projects

• EU-FER - Economic Uncertainty and Fertility in Europe, ERC Consolidator Project (2017-2023, PI: D. Vignoli)
• CREW - Care, Retirement and Wellbeing, JPY Project, European Commission (2019-2021, PI: G. De Santis; B. Arpino)
• GDR - Great Demographic Recession, PRIN Project, Miur (2019-2023, PI: D. Vignoli)
• EU-FER Narratives, Iniziativa FARE Ricerca in Italia, Miur (2020-2023, PI: D. Vignoli)
• SISValDidat (repository of data and analyses concerning the academic formation – e.g., students’ opinions on teaching activities, support services, curricular internships – which includes about twenty universities).

 

PhD Programs

Ups promotes the PhD program in Life Course Research. It also contributes to the PhD Program in Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics

 

Recent publications

For a complete overview of publications, please see the personal pages of UPS partecipants.