University of Roma Tre
Andrea Casavecchia is an Associate Professor in Sociology of cultural and communicative processes at Department of Sciences of education at the University of Roma Tre, where he teaches Sociology of cultural process and religion, Sociology of culture of gender, and Sociology of Family. His main interests of study focus on religions and cultural changes, youth culture and participation, the interaction between genders and generations. He is co-director of Interuniversity Master “Sociology, Theory, Method and Research”, director of an “Avanced training in Qualitative social research – NVivo” and director of research workshop on Cultura pluralism. His latest books: Sociologia dei processi culturali e dell’educazione. Concetti, approcci e sfide (con M. Merico, Armando 2025), Karl Mannheim e le trasformazioni sociali del nostro tempo (Carocci 2022); L’ospedale dei bambini. 1869-2019. Una storia che guarda al futuro. 150 anni del Bambino Gesù di Roma (Rizzoli 2020).
Italian Centre for the Promotion of Mediation
Francesca Garbarino, lawyer, clinical criminologist, founding member of CIPM and vice-president, has contributed to introducing restorative justice practices in Italy and subsequently criminological treatment for perpetrators of crimes related to gender-based, sexual and domestic violence. She is responsible for the UOMo project for the treatment of perpetrators of domestic violence in the Milan area and the UTI-M project for the treatment of the same in the prison context of the Milan-Bollate Prison.
Honorary judge at the Milan Juvenile Court; she participates as a lecturer in several university master’s programmes on gender-based violence, as a speaker at national and international conferences, and is the author of numerous specialist publications.
Italian National Institute of Health
Simona Gaudi is a molecular Biologist with a PhD in Biotechnology, and researcher in the Department of Environment and Health at the Italian National Institute of Health, Rome.
She has worked at the World Health Organization Laboratory at the University of California Davis (UCD), USA, focusing on recombinant vaccines. Upon returning to Europe, she engaged in cancer genetics research at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon. Since 1999, she has been a researcher at the Italian National Institute of Health, with her research centred on the functional genomics of non-communicable, multifactorial, and multigenic diseases, with a particular focus on the role of repetitive sequences and epigenetic aspects.
Simona Gaudi is the national coordinator of the multicenter research project “EpiWE (Epigenetics for WomEn): Epigenetics of Violence Against Women – Toward Precision Prevention.” The project investigates the biological and epigenetic impacts of gender-based violence with the aim of developing precision-based preventive strategies. From 2016, at the Department of Environment and Health, she has been able to develop the study of genome-environment interactions, focusing on epigenetic modifications present in the genomes of women who experience violence. This research aims to identify potential molecular predictive pathways of the possible onset of complex and chronic diseases in order to implement therapeutic protocols for precision preventive medicine.
Writer, journalist and trainer expert in GBV
Cristina Obber is a writer, journalist, and trainer expert in gender-based violence, working with schools and universities, professional associations, and companies. She participates as a speaker in conferences and seminars throughout Italy. She is the founder and coordinator of the scientific committee of “To Be Safe”, a project against harassment and discrimination in the workplace and in sports, in collaboration with Fondazione Assosafe and Telefono Rosa. Since 2020, she has been the co-coordinator for Italy, together with psychotherapist Stefania Andreoli, of the international project “Stand Up”, against harassment in public spaces (a project by L’Oréal Paris and the American NGO Right To Be, with Italian partners Corriere della Sera and Alice ETS). She is the creator of the Becoming project, through which, since 2012, she has conducted educational activities in schools on stereotypes and gender-based violence, with particular focus on femicide, sexual violence, and digital violence. She also provides training for teachers, school administrators, and parents. In 2023, at the age of 58, she graduated from the University of Milano-Bicocca in Educational Sciences, with a focus on adolescents and adults, writing a thesis on online sexual grooming of minors. In 2022, she conducted training sessions on gender-based violence with juvenile detainees at the Cesare Beccaria Juvenile Penitentiary in Milan and with professionals working both at the penitentiary and at Spazio Blu (juveniles under probation) in Milan. She has written about stereotypes and gender-based violence for Lettera Donna (Elle) and La 27esima ora of Corriere della Sera. Among her publications for children with Settenove, Giro Girotondo was sponsored by Amnesty International Italy as a tool for education that fosters respect and empathy. She has published several novels for adolescents with Piemme (the last two addressing digital violence), which have been adopted as classroom reading in middle and high schools. One of her stories, “Come il mare”, on the theme of gender identity, is included in the anthology Pari for middle schools, presented by Mondadori Education in 2025. Her most recent work is the essay L’Orco in Cameretta (Solferino), on the topic of online sexual grooming of minors, scheduled for release on April 4, 2025.
University of Cape Coast
Georgina Yaa Oduro holds a PhD degree from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Cape Coast, Ghana – West Africa. She was the Director of the Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation (CEGRAD) of the same university between 2019 and 2024, where she provided leadership as Principal Investigator in a number of Ghanaian and international context gender related research projects. Professionally, Georgina, teaches and undertakes research projects in the areas of sociological theory, gender issues, sexualities, gender-based violence, tangible and intangible cultural heritage, youth cultures, and gender issues in the blue economy. Georgina is the Ghana lead for the multidisciplinary and multi-country Mastercard Foundation funded project on gender inequities in the creative sector involving seven African countries and directed by the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW). (For more details, visit www.icrw.org). Prof. Oduro is also involved in a project on women in transnational trade in Western and Central Africa with funding from the Canadian Research Council. She has served as a keynote speaker at different forums both locally and internationally. She has a number of publications to her credit.
Uppsala University
Carolina Överlien is Professor of gender based violence and health, at Uppsala university, Sweden. She has conducted research on domestic violence and abuse for more than 25 years, publishing extensively internationally in scientific journals as well as edited books. She is one of the editors of Routledge book series on violence and abuse, as well as one of the founders of The European Conference on Domestic Violence (ECDV)
University of Padua
Barbara Segatto is Associate Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies of the University of Padua, where she coordinated the Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from 2015 to 2023 and, since 2024, has been coordinating the Master’s Degree in Innovation and Social Work.
Her research focuses on the protection of minors and families in vulnerable conditions and, more recently, on the phenomenon of young caregivers.
She has always combined academic research with professional engagement, integrating scientific analysis with interventions in social, educational, and institutional contexts. She has extensive institutional experience as Honorary Judge at the Juvenile Court of Venice and currently serves as Vice-President of the Regional Observatory on Violence against Women of the Veneto Region.
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