The journal Welfare&Ergonomia has opened the call for papers n.2, 2023 “Youth Beyond Stereotypes”.

The changes that have characterized Western societies in recent decades have contributed to creating a world in continuous and rapid evolution in which generations incessantly modify living conditions, needs, and motivations. In particular, it has been the youth population above all that has shown the most visible evolutionary trends compared to the past from a demographic, economic, social, and cultural point of view. In the first three areas, many studies have highlighted the impact on new generations; in the fourth, namely that concerning cultural aspects, analyses have instead often stopped at the description of phenomena, but attempts at critical reflection on youth culture, as an effect of structural or social transformations, are rather lacking, and it is to these latter aspects that the call intends to respond.

Potential authors for this issue of Welfare e Ergonomia are invited to submit an abstract of approximately 3,000 characters by April 12, 2023.

For more information:

Welfare e Ergonomia – Italian call; English call.

One year after receiving scientific recognition for Area 14, we are pleased to announce that the journal Welfare&Ergonomia has been promoted to Class A by ANVUR. The journal, published by Franco Angeli, examines the challenges and opportunities of welfare in a historical moment characterized by uncertainty. Through its monographic issues, it proposes the study of citizens’ well-being and safety issues, combining established knowledge in the field of social policies with the multidisciplinary approach of ergonomics.

The aim is to explore topics revolving around people and their well-being. Welfare in its various forms constitutes the body of social policies aimed at affirming citizenship rights, although in recent decades certain modifications have altered its original framework, calling into question equity between generations and genders, between those who have and do not have employment, and among professional categories. Ergonomics as a method is linked to technological development, although over the years it has broadened its areas of interest and has consistently applied a participatory design methodology, addressing culture, inclusion, integration, and professional awareness, while remaining an operational tool for health and safety in the workplace.

The integration of the two disciplines allows social issues to be examined from different interpretive perspectives, combining, among other things, practice and theory: welfare through the introduction of laws on mandatory insurance against risks arising from work performed; ergonomics through the design of spaces, tools, and production processes based on workers’ specific capabilities.