Paolo Landri

Paolo Landri is a Senior Researcher of the CNR-IRPPS – Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies of National Research Council and is the deputy Director for the Unit of Research of Fisciano (SA). Currently, he is responsible of INPOS, a large research program on the mapping of innovation in social policies and the current regimes of welfare.

He has a degree in Sociology, a post-graduate Diploma in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection by the University of Essex (UK) and a PhD in Sociology of Innovation Processes in the South Italy by the University of Napoli ‘Federico II’. His expertise is in sociology of education, research methodologies, and organizational studies, having participated to many research projects at national and international level on those topics. Recently, his main research interests concern educational organizations, professional learning and educational policies. He is now involved in national and international research projects on the new morphology of school, and in particular on the transformations of the educational settings triggered by the digital technologies, and platforms.

Internationally, he is the link convenor of the network 28 ‘Sociologies of Education’ of the European Educational Research Association, he is an Associate Member of ProPEL (Professional Practice Education and Learning) of the University of Stirling, and is a board member of several international journals (Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies; Malta Review of Educational Research; Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, European Educational Research Journal).

He has been the editor of the collective book: Prendersi Cura del Welfare. Altravista, and the author of the forthcoming book: Digital Governance of Education. Technologies, Standards and Europeanization of Education. London: Bloomsbury.