Eleonora (she/her) is an educator, critical sociologist of education and youth, PhD Candidate, and Graduate Teaching Fellow based in the School of Education, Communication & Society (ECS). Her PhD looks at how policies and practices in Milan’s State and Paritarie upper-secondary schools mediate students’ capabilities to be emotionally well.

Eleonora’s professional experience is as an educator in UK mainstream secondary schools, with students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and at safeguarding risk. Her education work focused on youth personal and academic development and well-being. She also has experience as a blog writer/editor, student representative, fundraising events organiser and support worker for disabled people.

Eleonora is a graduate of the MA Education, Policy & Society at ECS, and the Laurea Triennale in Scienze Internazionali e Istituzioni Europee at Università Degli Studi Di Milano - Statale. She is also trained up to L3 in Counselling Skills and Studies.

Research interests

Eleonora’s research focuses on youth voices and the intersections between education and wellbeing. She looks at Italy, her country of origin, and the global world.

Some sub-interests include:

• Intersections between education policies/practices and well-being, and related subjects in the curriculum (e.g. Relationships and sex education, health education, citizenship education, environmental education etc.)
• Experiences of disabled/neurodiverse/chronically ill researchers, educators and students
• Intersectional discrimination, oppression and power struggles
• Lived experience research
• Participatory and action research
• Research and education as activism
• Creative research methods
• Critical theory

Teaching

Eleonora teaches at KCL on the BA Social Sciences, and the BA Culture, Media and Creative industries. 

Find out more on her PURE page.