Community, equity and health promotion

Research lines of the group documented by publications in the period 2019-2023

• Health promotion and well-being promotion in schools and communities
• Contrasting Inequalities in school and community contexts
• Health promotion and equity in LGBTQIA+ communities

Head

Cinzia Albanesi, Full professor

ERC  sectors

• SH Social Sciences and Humanities
• SH4_5 Social and clinical psychology
• SH4_11Education: systems and institutions, teaching and learning

Scientific disciplinary sector (SSD): PSIC-03/A

Selected publications of the group for the period 2020-2024

1. Lorusso, M. M., Compare, C., & Albanesi, C. (2023). Current vs. Desired: Transforming the Gender-Affirming Path Through the Work of Trans, Non-binary, and Gender-Questioning Activists Within an Ecological Framework. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-023-00905-0
2. Compare, C., & Albanesi, C. (2023). Belief, attitude and critical understanding. A systematic review of social justice in Service‐Learning experiences. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 33(2), 332-355. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2639
3. Gattino, S., Rizzo, M., Gatti, F., Compare, C., Procentese, F., Guarino, A., ... & Albanesi, C. (2022). COVID‐19 in our lives: Sense of community, sense of community responsibility, and reflexivity in present concerns and perception of the future. Journal of Community Psychology, 50(5), 2344-2365. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22780
4. Lorusso, M., & Albanesi, C. (2021). When the context rows against. Voicing parents of transgender children and teenagers in Italy: A qualitative study. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 31(6), 732-748. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2518
5. Albanesi, C., Tomasetto, C. & Guardabassi, V. Evaluating interventions with victims of intimate partner violence: a community psychology approach. BMC Women's Health 21, 138 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-021-01268-7
6. Cicognani, E., Albanesi, C., Valletta, L., Prati, G. (2020) Quality of Collaboration Within Health Promotion Partnerships and Community Coalitions: Impact on Sense of Community, Empowerment and Perceived Projects’ Outcomes" Journal of Community Psychology, 48(2), 323-336. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22254

Funding for the period 2020-2024

International projects

• SYNCRONY (HE) (2023-2027)

 

Active National and International Collaborations for the period 2019-2023

National collaborations

• Community Psychology Groups of the University of Naples Federico II, University of Salento
• University of Turin, Catholic University Milan, SIPCO (Italian Society of Community Psychology)

Unibo collaborations

• Department of Education Sciences - CSGE - Centre for Gender and Education Studies, Department of Education Sciences, University of Bologna

Editorial activities in the period 2020-2024

Cinzia Albanesi

• Psicologia di comunità
• Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Elvira Cicognani

• Psicologia di comunità

Fellow in scientific academies and / or executive committees of scientific associations for the period 2020-2024

 Cinzia Albanesi

• European Community Psychology Association (ECPA);
• EASLHE (European Association Service Learning in Higher Education)

Elvira Cicognani

• European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA);
• Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Sezione di Psicologia Sociale

Maric Martin Lorusso

• European Community Psychology Association (ECPA student board member)