Roberto Rizza

Full Professor of Sociology of Economic and Labor Processes, currently serving as the Director of the PhD Programme in Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna.

His research explores the interplay between labor market policies and social inclusion, with a focus on policy implementation, work-career trajectories, and gender disparities.

He has published in national and international journals, including South European Society and Politics, Journal of Public Policy, Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Sozialer Fortschritt, International Review of Sociology, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Stato e Mercato, and Sociologia del Lavoro.

He is the author of several monographs, most recently Gendering the Political Economy of Labour Market Policies, published by Routledge.

He is currently serving as Principal Investigator for the PRIN 2022 project, ALMADIA: Active Labour Market Policies and Street-Level Bureaucracy: Discretion in Action.