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Ilaria Primerano is a technologist at the National Research Council, Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS) in Fisciano (SA).
It is currently part of the FOSSR project – Fostering Open Science in Social Science Research, and is collaborating on Work Package 4 – Improving longitudinal data infrastructures in Italy.
She obtained a degree in Sociology in 2009, a master's degree in Sociology and Territorial Policies in 2011 and a PhD in Engineering and Innovation Economics in 2016 at the University of Salerno.
Since 2020 she has been a contract professor for teaching the Statistics Laboratory for the Social Sciences at the Department of Political and Social Studies of the University of Salerno, where she is also a member of the research and training laboratory SNALab – Social Networks and Analytics for Digital Space and Territory.
During his training years she participated, as a research fellow, in various research projects whose results were presented at conferences and publications. She was also involved in organizing committees of national and international workshops.
She is the author of articles and contributions published in national and international journals, conference proceedings and volumes.
Her research interests concern the analysis of complex data structures through the use of Multidimensional Data Analysis and Social Network Analysis with applications in the economic and social fields. She has worked on the evaluation of university teaching, national and international student mobility, university dropouts, social support and network society.
Main publications
- Columbu S., Porcu M., Primerano I., Sulis I., Vitale M.P, (2021) Analysing the determinants of Italian university student mobility pathways. Genus, 77(1), 1-20;
- Columbu S., Porcu M., Primerano I., Sulis I., Vitale M.P, (2021) Geography of Italian student mobility: A network analysis approach. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 73, 100918;
- Giordano G., Primerano I., Vitale P., (2020), A Network-based Indicator of Travelers Performativity on Instagram. Social Indicator Research. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-020-02326-7;
- Restaino, M., Vitale, M.P. & Primerano, I. (2020) Analysing International Student Mobility Flows in Higher Education: A Comparative Study on European Countries. Social Indicator Research;
- Giordano G., Primerano I., (2018). The use of network analysis to handle semantic differential data. Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 52(3), pages 1173-1192, ISSN 0033-5177, doi:10.1007/s11135-0511-x;
- Giordano G., Primerano I., Schisani M. C., Caiazzo F., Vitale M.P., (2017). Inter-firm networks in Naples before and after Italian Political Unification. A network analysis perspective. Italian Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol. 30. Pag.143-165, ISSN:1125-1964. doi: 10.26398/IJAS.0030-006;
- La Rocca M., Parrella M.L., Primerano I., Sulis I., Vitale M.P., (2016) An integrated strategy of analysis of student evaluations of teaching: from descriptive measures to explanatory models, Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 51(2), pages 675-691, ISSN 0033-5177, doi:10.1007/s11135-016-0432-0.
- Primerano, I., Santelli, F., & Usala, C. (2023). A Multiplex Network Approach for Analyzing University Students’ Mobility Flows. In Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics: SIS 2021, Pisa, Italy, June 21–25 (pp. 75-89). Cham: Springer International Publishing;
- Vitale, M. P., Catone, M. C., Primerano, I., & Giordano, G. (2021). Unveiling Network Data Patterns in Social Media. In AA.VV. Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society (pp. 571-588). Hershey, Pennsylvania IGI Global, ISBN:9781799884736;
- Restaino M., Primerano I., Vitale M.P, (2021), Exploring the gender gap in Erasmus student mobility flows In Balzano S., Porzio G.C., Salvatore R., Vistocco, D. e Vichi, M. Statistical Learning and Modelling Data Analysis, Springer Cham, ISBN: 9783030699437, pp. 173-182;
- Primerano I., Santelli, F., Usala, C. (2021). A multiplex network approach to study Italian Students’ Mobility In Perna C., Salvati N., Scrippa Spagnolo F., Book of short papers SIS 2021, Pearson, ISBN: 9788891927361, pp. 473-478;
- Restaino M., Primerano I., Prosperina Vitale M. (2021) A Comparative Analysis of the University Student Mobility Flows Among European Countries. In: Mariani P., Zenga M. (eds) Data Science and Social Research II. DSSR 2019. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Cham., pp 331-341;
- Columbu S., Primerano I., (2020). A multilevel Analysis of University attractiveness in the network flows from Bachelor to Master’s degree. In Pollice A., Salvati N., Scrippa Spagnolo F., Book of short papers SIS 2020, Pearson, ISBN: 9788891910776, pp. 480-485;
- Vitale P., Primerano I., Vitale M.P., (2020). Social Big Data and Network Analysis Tools. In Maretti M., Fontanella L., La ricerca sociale nello spazio digitale, collana FrancoAngeli “Computational Social Sciences”, ISBN: 9788891791238