The PhD Course focuses on the analysis of generative welfare systems as enabling tools for well-being. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach that draws on the epistemological and methodological tools of Innovation Studies. The interdisciplinary approach aims to bridge the gap between the medical and humanities and social sciences, with the goal of developing new frameworks for promoting well-being. From this perspective, medical humanities (MH) represent the expression of a collective responsibility, which calls into question welfare policy systems and the cost- benefit/community well-being rate. The PhD addresses issues related to both training and professional practice in healthcare sectors with the aim of training specialists capable of design systems and tools for health care, useful for the community empowerment and the promotion of equity and social inclusion. So, producing analyses and developing tools the aim is defining a "widespread well-being with a social counterpart" as a perspective for a true health ecosystem, centered on the combination of well-being and the environment.
Thematic Areas:
The PhD focuses on developing skills for the development, promotion, and implementation of tools that foster sharing, participation, and empowerment, both locally and in multicultural contexts. These skills connect local needs (expressed through communication between public administrations, companies and health workers) with scientific research. Specifically, the PhD aims to establish a close connection between social citizenship items and issues related to the management of public space. Because it considers the welfare a unique generative dimension, useful for the developing of governance plans focused on innovative systems of collective intelligence, it put particular attention to the development of digital technologies and AI systems too.
Educational Objectives:
Conforming to the European policies and the United Nations 2030 Agenda, the PhD adopts an interdisciplinary approach that integrates human, social, and health sciences to broaden innovative projects and coordinates data collection and processing activities To address the expressed or latent needs of regional systems as a whole, it focuses on:
- reducing regional inequalities and improve social and economic cohesion
- promoting digital tools to improve and enhance communication and accessibility in the healthcare sector
- reinforcement social inclusion and equity in access to medical care by encouraging knowledge and application of Medical Humanities (MH) in healthcare practices and training programs for healthcare professionals
- fostering connections between the healthcare system and the network of social enterprises.
So, the training objectives of this PhD insist both on the need to ensure a fruitful relationship between the world of research and the production and service system (public and private), and on the indispensability of highly specialized professional figures capable of developing innovative models of MH and territorial generative welfare. These last must be sustainable and money-saving, as to say capable of capitalizing on the results of scientific research in an ecosystem way.
Educational Activities:
Teaching activities involves dialectical and laboratory-based. In particular, great attention is put on research methodology, which, beyond disciplinary specifics, has to satisfy accredited requirements elected by national and international scientific communities. To this end, many seminars focus on research methodology, especially mixed-methods, as an opportunity to integrate different research tools and, above all, to test new paradigms based on Innovation Studies perspective. Other seminars and workshops are open to specific student requests, including those related to specific research projects. Organizing ad hoc seminars and workshops fosters collaboration, demonstrating how scientific research is an wide field, ready to transforms ideas into research streams.
Coordinator:
Members of the Academic Board:
- Francesco Bellanti
- Piervito Bianchi
- Giulia Ciccarese
- Gilda Cinnella
- Vincenza Conteduca
- Piero Dominici
- Nicola Faccilongo
- Pietro Fiore
- Enrica Iannuzzi
- Flavia Indrio
- Piermichele La Sala
- Lucio Lo Russo
- Massimo Pettoello Mantovani
- Gaetano Serviddio
- Cristiana Simonetti
- Giuseppe Solaro
- Barbara Speranza
- Antonio Stopani
- Caterina Tricase
- Maristella Trombetta
- Pier Paolo Zampieri
- Eugenio Zaniboni
Members from other staff, businesses, public administrations, cultural institutions, and research
Infrastructures
- Matteo Borri
- Annalisa Buffardi
- Codrina Cseznek
- Luiza Mesesan Schmitz
- Marcial Moquera Sancez
- Domenico Moro
- Eliano Pio Navarese
- Tudor Lucian Pop
- Patel Rakesh