The call for papers is open “Rethinking Welfare to Prevent and Combat Gender Violence: Challenges and Opportunities for an Integrated System”, edited by Pietro Demurtas and Emiliana Mangone.

The selected contributions will be published in issue no. 2/2025 of the Welfare and Ergonomics Journal, edited by Franco Angeli and recognized in Band A Anvur.

The main focus is on the prevention and fight against gender violence, considered as strategic areas to rethink the welfare system through an innovative and inclusive approach.

Deadlines

• Abstract (max 3.000 characters, spaces included): Submit by January 31, 2025.

Abstracts must include: introduction, scientific context, methodology, innovative results and essential bibliography.

Topics of Interest

The proposals should address, also from a comparative perspective, issues such as:

• Welfare models to prevent gender violence and support victims.
• Integration between anti-violence, social and digital policies.
• Territorial management of policies to combat violence.
• Strategies to address new forms of digital violence.
• Intersectional approaches and responses to unmet needs of victims.

How to participate

Please send abstracts to welfarergonomia.rel@irpps.cnr.it. After acceptance, registration on the Franco Angeli OJS platform is required (link to registration).

Read the full call EN IT

Welfare and Ergonomics was born within the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies of the CNR and is financed by Department of Human and Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage of the CNRThe journal adopts peer review, with the double-blind method and is recognized by ANVUR in class “A” as a scientific journal for area 14 (Political and social sciences). 

27 September 2024

h. 09.30pm – 13.00pm

Aula Marconi, CNR headquarters, Rome

Among the interventions there will be that of Marco Omizzolo who edited the issue, of Anna Milione, Pietro Demurtas and Mara Tognetti who co-direct the magazine, and of Salvatore Capasso, director of the CNR-DSU.

Welfare & Ergonomics, recognized as an A Anvur magazine, was born as an IRPPS editorial project and is published by FrancoAngeli.

The call for contributions to the next issue of the magazine is now open Welfare & Ergonomics, dedicated to “Social agriculture between new and old social work practices, theoretical perspectives and policy innovations”, edited by Angela Genova and Tiziana Tarsia.

The issue will collect theoretical contributions and empirical research (both subject to peer review) related to:

• case studies at local, national and international level capable of producing critical reflections that highlight the challenges in the implementation of social agriculture, with a multidisciplinary approach

• study of policies and their effects with a specific focus on national and regional regulatory contexts and practices that connect some emerging themes such as innovation processes in the primary sector and the differentiation of agricultural activities, the energy transition, the return to agricultural activities of young people, attention to well-being and the environment in a one health perspective
  
• analysis of the results of social research evaluating the experiences of social agriculture as a device for rehabilitation processes and social participation of disadvantaged people, but also for the promotion of community activities and social cohesion.
  

Potential authors of this issue of Welfare & Ergonomics are invited to submit an abstract of approximately 25 characters by September 2024, 3000, and, if accepted, the full contribution by 20 January 2025.

Read full call (English).

Born from a CNR-IRPPS project, Welfare & Ergonomics It is a biannual magazine published by Franco Angeli and recognized in 2017 in class A of ANVUR for the field of Political and Social Sciences.

For information and contacts: welfarergonomia.rel@irpps.cnr.it.

The new call for paper of the magazine Welfare & Ergonomia, edited by Alberto Pesce and Veronica Valenti, is dedicated to “Investing in the social reintegration of prisoners: trends and new perspectives of Italian welfare” .

You can submit your proposal by 29 March 2024, sending an abstract of approximately 3000 characters (including spaces).

All information is available in call document.

Welfare & Ergonomics is a magazine in Class A (Anvur), published by Franco Angeli editore, on the editorial project and direction of IRPPS (thanks to the researcher Antonella Ciocia).

 By way of example, contributions for the edition in question may concern:

• the socio-health aspects resulting from overcrowding both at a collective and individual level;
• the importance of caring for loved ones in prison to gather suggestions with a view to reform;
• the reciprocal relationship between forms of restorative justice and social reintegration;
• the importance of prison education and professional training courses;
• the analysis of best practices Italian or European and aimed at promoting training, placement and job hiring;
• the analysis of traditional welfare models and their implementation towards people deprived of liberty, with attention also to new models or which concern prisoners or former prisoners;
• the analysis of legislation and jurisprudence regarding the social and work reintegration of prisoners;
• the critical analysis of the role of local authorities and private social organizations in guaranteeing training, placement and employment;
• the analysis of best practices territorial or tested in individual penitentiary institutions;
• the analysis of the factors that lead to relapse: 
• the analysis of state and regional spending aimed at promoting social and work inclusion paths;
• the treatment of resigning prisoners who have reached the end of their sentences;
• the impact of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, or neuroscience on the social and work reintegration of detained people.

Magazine Welfare&Ergonomics (Range A, Anvur, Edita Franco Angeli) opened the call for papers n.1, 2024 "Exploitation of work, rights and health in contemporary society", edited by Marco Omizzolo.

This issue of W&E will investigate the organization, diffusion and evolution of the labor exploitation system and its effects on psycho-physical health and on the welfare system in Italy. The proposals can be both theoretical and empirical.

For submission, an abstract of approximately 3.000 characters (including spaces) must be sent by 13 October 2023 y omizzolomarco@gmail.com; welfarergonomia.rel@irpps.cnr.it.

Call for abstracts (pdf)
Call for abstracts EN (pdf)

Magazine Welfare&Ergonomics opened the call for papers n.2, 2023 "Young people beyond stereotypes".

The changes that have characterized the last decades le western companies helped create a world in continuous and very rapid evolution in which generations constantly modify living conditions, needs, motivations. In particular, it was above all the young population that showed the most visible evolutionary trends compared to the past from a demographic, economic, social and cultural point of view. In the first three areas there are many studies that have highlighted the repercussions on the new generations; in the fourth, i.e. that which concerns the cultural aspects, the analyzes have instead often stopped at the description of the phenomena, but the attempts at critical reflection on youth culture, as an effect of structural or social transformations, are rather lacking and it is on these last aspects that the call intends to answer.

Potential authors of this issue of Welfare and Ergonomics are invited to submit an abstract of approximately 12 characters by 2023 April 3000.

For more information:

Welfare and Ergonomics – call Italian; call English .

One year after the recognition of scientific nature for area 14, we are very pleased to announce that the Journal Welfare&Ergonomics received from theANVUR the transition to level A. The magazine published by Franco Angeli reflects on the challenges and opportunities of welfare in a historical moment characterized by uncertainty. It proposes, through its monographic issues, the study of citizens' well-being and safety problems, mixing the consolidated knowledge in the field of social policies with the multidisciplinary approach of ergonomics

The intent is to explore themes that revolve around man and his well-being. Welfare in its various forms is the corpus of social policies aimed at affirming the right of citizenship, even if in recent decades some modifications have changed the original structure, calling into question the equity between generations and genders, between those who have and does not have the job and between the professional categories. Ergonomics as a method is linked to the development of technology, even if over the years it has broadened its areas of interest and has always applied a participatory planning methodology, it has dealt with culture, hospitality, integration and professional awareness, while remaining a tool operational health and safety in the workplace.

The integration between the two disciplines makes it possible to look at social issues by adopting different interpretative angles and combining, among other things, practice and theory: welfare with the introduction of laws on compulsory insurance against the risks deriving from the work carried out; ergonomics with the design of spaces, tools and production processes according to the specific skills of the workers.