Daniela Leonardi

Daniela Leonardi has a doctorate in applied sociology and social research methodology, and is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Culture, Politics and Society at the University of Turin. Her doctoral research focuses on the professional discretion exercised by social workers in homeless shelters.

She is a member of LOCI (Lower Classes and Public Institutions), an international research network coordinated by Vincent Dubois (UMR SAGE, University of Strasbourg), which currently brings together 43 researchers from 16 countries and aims to achieve an international comparison of the relationship between the working classes and institutions through common research questions and methods. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Italian Federation of Organizations for the Homeless (fio.PSD). Her research focuses on homelessness, the fight against poverty
the fight against poverty, housing issues, the link between housing and social policies, professional discretion.

The project

Her post-doctoral research focuses on the relationship between the working classes and institutions from a comparative perspective, as part of the "Inclusion, Inequalities, Differences" research program at the University of Turin.

Hosting institution : Aix Marseille Université

Selective bibliography

Street-level Bureaucracy Theory meets different Souths, Leonardi D., Paraciani R., Raspanti D. (coords.), ‹‹International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy››, forthcoming.

Campagnaro C., Di Prima N., Leonardi D., Meo A. & Stefani S. (2022), Re-Orienting the Turin Reception System to Address Homelessness. Findings from an Italian Participatory Action-Research Study, ‹‹European Journal on Homelessness›› vol. 16, ISSN 2030-2762 / ISSN 2030-3106 online.

Leonardi D., (2021) How to Use the Vignette Technique to Uncover Judgments, Values, Relationships with Norms. Methodological Reflections from a Research Project on Professional Discretion, ‹‹Sociologia Italiana-AIS Journal of Sociology›› 18/2021, pp. 53- 68, DOI: 10.1485/2281-2652-
202118-3.

Leonardi D., Paraciani R., & Raspanti D. (2021). A Strategy is Necessary. The Policy-Client Conflict within Different Relational Asymmetries: A Comparison at the Street-level, ‹‹International Journal of
Sociology and Social Policy››, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print, doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP 07-2021-0188.

Leonardi D., Stefani S., (2021), The pandemic and homeless people in the Turin area. The level of Housing adequacy shapes Experiences and Well-being, ‹‹Housing, Care and Support››, doi: 10.1108/HCS-03-2021-0006.

Leonardi D., (2023) Housing and the welfare system in Italy, ‹‹Handbook of Housing and Welfare››, Grander (coord.), Routledge, forthcoming.

Leonardi D., (2020), Divenire homeless: quale ruolo assumono i servizi di accoglienza nella definizione delle identità?, ‹‹Homelessness in Italia. Biografie, territori, politiche››, Consoli T. & Meo A. (coords.), Milano, FrancoAngeli, pp. 29- 48.

Leonardi D., (2021), La colpa di non avere un tetto. Homelessness tra
stigma e stereotipi, Torino, eris edizioni, ISBN 9791280495068.