Head: Isabella Valbusa
Mehmet Çağlar Akyiğit, Isabella Giannini, Barbara Rinaldi, Manuela Viezzoli, Denise Zucchini

Isabella Valbusa | isabella.valbusa@phd.unipd.it

Isabella Valbusa is a psychologist specialised in Guidance and Career Counselling for Inclusion, Sustainability and Social Justice (academic year 2020/2021), and PhD student at the Doctoral School of Human Rights, Society and Multi-level Governance at the University of Padua. Her research project aims to promote inclusive and socially just school contexts. Since 2020, she has been collaborating with the La.R.I.O.S. Laboratory (Research and Intervention Laboratory for Career Choices) on research activities concerning the implementation and evaluation of workshops aimed at promoting inclusive, sustainable, and socially just guidance. The workshops aim to promote a concept of decent work that prioritises respect for workers’ rights.
She was a member of the secretariat of the Advanced Training Course Guidance at School: Designing Fair, Inclusive and Sustainable Futures.
 

Mehmet Çağlar Akyiğit | mehmetcaglar.akyigit@studenti.unipd.it 

In May 2019, he graduated in Psychology from Çağ University. In April 2024, he completed a Master’s degree in Clinical, Social, and Intercultural Psychology at the University of Padua, with a thesis project focused on inclusion in higher education. From 2019 to 2021, he worked with UNICEF on a programme aimed at preventing school dropout in Turkey. His role in the project focused primarily on supporting children with migration backgrounds. He is a certified trainer through the EFPSA Training School. Since March 2023, he has been collaborating with the La.R.I.O.S. Laboratory on various projects related to inclusion, diversity, and social justice, including the European EQui-T project. Within this project, his responsibilities include coordinating the working group on the literature analysis of inclusive educational resources. In November 2024, he began his doctoral studies at the "Antonio Papisca" Human Rights Centre at the University of Padua. His research focuses on exploring how education can empower young people to address global challenges, such as issues related to social justice.

Isabella Giannini | isabella.giannini@unipd.it 

She is part of the technical-administrative staff of the University of Padua, carrying out her activities at the "Antonio Papisca" University Centre for Human Rights. In particular, she collaborates in the organisational activities of national and international conferences, seminars, study days and other scientific dissemination events; she also collaborates in editing activities of publications on inclusion, human rights, sustainability, social justice; provides support for post-graduate training activities; collaborates on the Centre's research projects, and on the development of tools for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of programs and services for people with disabilities and guidance activities for students; collaborates with the University Civil Service Office for the planning and management of volunteers.

Manuela Viezzoli | manuela.viezzoli@unipd.it

Manuela Viezzoli, since 2021 PTA of the University of Padua, works at the "A. Papisca Human Rights Centre". She deals with the human rights and inclusion of people with disabilities sector. Graduated in Pedagogical Sciences at Roma Tre University, she obtained a Master's in Transactional Counselling (Salesian University, Rome) and in Inclusion and Social Innovation (Unipd). She completed an internship at the tutoring service for students with disabilities at Roma Tre University. She manages the Human Rights Centre website, publishing news on disability and inclusion to inform and disseminate the topic. She also develops organisational aspects of the General Course, Unipd, and the census of third mission events. Since 2023, she has been collaborating with the University Centre for Museums (CAM), dealing with issues of inclusion of people with disabilities within the museums of the University of Padua.

Barbara Rinaldi | barbara.rinaldi.1@studenti.unipd.it 

Qualified as a psychologist in June 2024 and specialised in the course Guidance and Career counselling for Inclusion, Sustainability and Social Justice in July 2024, at the University of Padua. She is a PhD student in the Human Rights, Society and Multi-level Governance course at the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua. In September 2022, she began her collaboration with the La.R.I.O.S Laboratory, initially as a pre-graduate intern, then as a Universal Civil Service volunteer. Specifically, she carries out career counselling activities, designs and implements intervention projects in the field of vocational guidance, research and collaboration in organising training events (conferences, seminars, etc.). Her research interests mainly concern the analysis of variables that promote inclusive and sustainable contexts, to develop social and educational settings in line with these, and the analysis of anticipatory thinking from a collective perspective among adolescents, to support them in designing desirable futures, from a socio-environmental justice and inclusion perspective.

Denise Zucchini | denise.zucchini@phd.unipd.it 

Psychologist specialised in the course Guidance and Career Counselling for Inclusion, Sustainability and Social Justice and PhD student in the Human Rights, Society and Multi-level Governance course at the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua. Since 2022, she has been collaborating with the La.R.I.O.S Laboratory (Research and Intervention Laboratory for Career Choices) of the University of Padua in research activities related to the themes of inclusion, sustainability and social justice, as well as in prevention and promotion activities on professional guidance. Her research interests mainly concern the analysis of marginalisation and social exclusion processes, the analysis of dynamics that favour decent work and respect for human rights, the promotion of peaceful ideas and attitudes, and the development of environments aimed at inclusion, sustainability and social justice, with particular attention to the trajectories of people with vulnerabilities.