Ongoing Research Projects
University and Public Engagement Activities in Prison
This project is part of the Research Project (PRA_2020_42) “Social Sciences and Public Engagement: for a new alliance between public knowledge and society”. Department of Political Science, University of Pisa.
Duration: 24 months (2020-2022)
PI: Andrea Borghini (University of Pisa)
Past projects
Doing time in Prison: education as practice of resistance.
This project focuses on university education in Italy’s prison as practice of resistance to processes of cultural impoverishment and subjective destruction typical of the prison system. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, it examines the Italian experience of Prison University Campuses.
Duration: 24 months (2018-2020)
PI: Gerardo Pastore (University of Pisa)