The prevention of Juvenile Radicalisation:promoting the use to alternatives to detention

2017-2018 | Coordination of the project for IJJO; co-authoring the manual “Prevention of Juvenile radicalisation”

FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION/CUTTING IN SAMBURU COUNTY AND FOSTER CARE FOR CHILDREN IN NEED OF PROTECTION IN KENYA: FEASIBILITY STUDIES

2016-2017 | As an independent research consultant of the Italian NGO “Albero della Vita”, operating in Kenya, I conducted the research on the field and drafted the two feasibility studies, one on female genital mutilation (FGM) in Samburu County (Northern Kenya) and one on alternative care solutions for children in need of protection in Kenya, with a focus on foster care.

STRENGTHENING HUMAN RIGHTS IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES IN KENYA

2012-2016 I conducted research on human rights in the criminal justice and correctional system in Kenya using primary data – collected through direct observation and face to face semistructured interviews to inmates and prisons’ officers – and secondary data gathered from desk review of the legal framework, statistics, reports from state and non-state actors who work in the criminal justice system in Kenya, and other relevant literature.

STOPPING VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILD DOMESTIC WORKERS THROUGH REGULATION AND EDUCATION

2014- 2016 | As an independent consultant for CEFA, I conducted a research in the context of the Kenyan survey, on child domestic work, and drafted the Legal and Policy assessment in the framework of child domestic work in Kenya.

Improving Kenya Juvenile Justice System

2014-2016 | Project coordination, human resources management, monitoring and reporting, communication and fundraising tasks for the overall Child Protection Programme; contributed to the publication “Guidelines Manual on Juvenile Justice Practices”

KEEPING YOUTH AWAY FROM CRIME: SEARCHING FOR BEST EUROPEAN PRACTICES

2013- 2015 | As independent research consultant for IJJO, I contributed to the European study of good practices collected from Austria, Belgium, England and Wales, Italy, Scotland, Sweden, in the Netherlands, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

PROJECT PRAESIDIUM

2014 – 2015 | As Monitoring Officer for Save the Children Italy, I was in charge of the monitoring the living conditions of unaccompanied migrant children in reception centres across Sicily.

I visited and collected information from more than hundred reception centres spread across the 9 provinces in Sicily, interviewing children, centres’ managers and workers, and conducting thorough visits of the structures.

Child friendly justice – Perspectives and experiences of children involved in judicial proceedings as victims, witnesses or parties in nine eU member states

2013 | As a research assistant in the Rights of the Child Team at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, I had the privilege to support the research for the child-friendly Justice project and the report about the perspectives of professionals.

RESEARCH ON SCHOOL BULLYING AND ON ORGANISED CRIME

2008-2010 | At the Transcrime Research Centre at the Università Cattolica, in Milan, as research assistant, I contributed to the research projects: “Bullying: between reality and social representation” and “Criminal geography of public contracts: the organised crime’s infiltrations in public tenders in Southern Italy”.