Micol Pizzolati
Biographic Data
| ID | 247764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Micol Pizzolati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Micol |
| FAMILY NAME | Pizzolati |
| SIGNATURE | PIZZOLATI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergamo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9298-0282 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A playful ethnography
This short article revisits insights generated through a classroom exercise designed as a methodological device for exploring key aspects of ethnographic observation and fieldnote writing. Centred on a modified card game, the activity assigned distinct roles to players with divergent instructions, to observers focusing on different dynamics, and to a group tasked with observing the observers, enabling multiple perspectives on the same social inte…
Nurturing Students’ Reflexive Approach to Data Analysis by Crafting Collective Zines
This article presents insights from a classroom exercise in an undergraduate Applied Social Research course, in which students explored how their lived experiences shape the ways they make sense of qualitative data, becoming aware of the situated nature of research. Through collective zine-making, they engaged with visual and narrative empirical material from earlier research on how young people’s daily experiences were reconfigured amid major ch…
Youth temporalities in identity boxes
Seven quality choicepoints for ARJ
Action research cultures
We Are Learning How To Organize Ourselves
The paper explores activists' political organization strategies and obstacles they faced in achieving consensus during the feminist protests that exploded in Chilean universities between April and May 2018. Drawing on the intra-movement dynamics literature and analyzing qualitative data about the mobilization in one of the oldest universities of the country, the research sheds light on the movement's internal dynamics, reviewing the activists' de…
We do things that matter
The article explores welfare and health practitioners' representations of work practices and professional values underpinning their engagement with forced migrants within a polyfunctional health service in an Italian metropolitan city. It explores the integrated approach developed to cater for asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection's specific needs. Building on interviews with health professionals and welfare workers, the ar…
Exploring the relationship between stigma and help‐seeking for mental illness in African‐descended faith communities in the UK
BACKGROUND: Stigma related to mental illness affects all ethnic groups, contributing to the production and maintenance of mental illness and restricting access to care and support. However, stigma is especially prevalent in minority communities, thus potentially increasing ethnically based disparities. Little is known of the links between stigma and help-seeking for mental illness in African-descended populations in the UK. OBJECTIVE AND STUDY DE…
Engaging communities to improve mental health in African and African Caribbean groups
Over the last decade, Britain has undergone reforms to promote engagement in local structures of governance. These reforms have encouraged the promotion of active citizenship and have been central to the government's public service modernisation agenda. This article presents the findings from a study evaluating a pilot outreach intervention which adopted a community engagement model to address the mental health needs of African and African Caribb…
Engaging communities to improve mental health in African and African Caribbean groups
Over the last decade, Britain has undergone reforms to promote engagement in local structures of governance. These reforms have encouraged the promotion of active citizenship and have been central to the government's public service modernisation agenda. This article presents the findings from a study evaluating a pilot outreach intervention which adopted a community engagement model to address the mental health needs of African and African Caribb…
Exploring the relationship between stigma and help‐seeking for mental illness in African‐descended faith communities in the UK
BACKGROUND: Stigma related to mental illness affects all ethnic groups, contributing to the production and maintenance of mental illness and restricting access to care and support. However, stigma is especially prevalent in minority communities, thus potentially increasing ethnically based disparities. Little is known of the links between stigma and help-seeking for mental illness in African-descended populations in the UK. OBJECTIVE AND STUDY DE…
We do things that matter
The article explores welfare and health practitioners' representations of work practices and professional values underpinning their engagement with forced migrants within a polyfunctional health service in an Italian metropolitan city. It explores the integrated approach developed to cater for asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection's specific needs. Building on interviews with health professionals and welfare workers, the ar…
Action research cultures
We Are Learning How To Organize Ourselves
The paper explores activists' political organization strategies and obstacles they faced in achieving consensus during the feminist protests that exploded in Chilean universities between April and May 2018. Drawing on the intra-movement dynamics literature and analyzing qualitative data about the mobilization in one of the oldest universities of the country, the research sheds light on the movement's internal dynamics, reviewing the activists' de…
Youth temporalities in identity boxes
Seven quality choicepoints for ARJ
A playful ethnography
This short article revisits insights generated through a classroom exercise designed as a methodological device for exploring key aspects of ethnographic observation and fieldnote writing. Centred on a modified card game, the activity assigned distinct roles to players with divergent instructions, to observers focusing on different dynamics, and to a group tasked with observing the observers, enabling multiple perspectives on the same social inte…
Nurturing Students’ Reflexive Approach to Data Analysis by Crafting Collective Zines
This article presents insights from a classroom exercise in an undergraduate Applied Social Research course, in which students explored how their lived experiences shape the ways they make sense of qualitative data, becoming aware of the situated nature of research. Through collective zine-making, they engaged with visual and narrative empirical material from earlier research on how young people’s daily experiences were reconfigured amid major ch…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Action research (2 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)