Curriculum

I suoi interessi di ricerca riguardano la costruzione del sapere nelle pratiche professionali e dei servizi sociali, le metodologie di osservazione sul campo e di ricerca sociale, le tecniche di ricerca sociale partecipata e collaborativa, la sociologia dei conflitti, la formazione e la cultura professionale degli operatori sociali, le pratiche relazionali dei gruppi e degli spazi dell'accoglienza dei migranti.  ​

Curriculum

Tiziana Tarsia (Reggio Calabria,1975) is Associate Professor in Sociology (SPS/07) at the Department of Cognitive Sciences, Psychology, Education and Cultural Studies of University of Messina, At the same University she was previously, from 2016 to 2019 and 2019-2022, RTD (researcher) in Sociology (SPS/07). 

Her research interests concern the construction of knowledge in professional practices and social services, field observation and social research methodologies, participatory and collaborative social research techniques, sociology of conflicts and of knowledge, training and professional culture of social workers, the relational practices of groups and spaces for migrants reception.
 
She is a member of the Italian Association of Sociology (Ais, 2004-) and of the Italian Association of Social Service Teachers (Sociss, 2013-).

Teaching activity
She teaches "Methodology and Technique of Social Research" (Pedagogical Sciences - LM/85) and "Tools and Methods of Social Research" (Psychological sciences and techniques – L/24). From 2011 to 2019 she teached disciplines related to the area of Social Service in the degree course in Social Work Sciences
 
Qualifications
She achivied Post doctoral fellowship at the University of Messina (2008-2010) and PhD in Theory and Analysis of Social Change at the University of Messina, 2006. She achieved the Degree in Social Political Sciences, University of Messina, 2001.

Research activities

In 2021-2022 she is member of the scientific committee of Italian Conference on Social Service Research (CIRSS) and in 2019-2020 is member of the Scientific Committee of the National Conference Espanet Italia (Italian Network for Social Policies Analysis).
She is Representative for the Cospecs department of the National Permanent Observatory of Social Services and Poverty (interdepartmental network between different Italian Universities) and, for the Department, is member of the scientific committee of the series of seminars "Trame migranti" and of research project “Cartografare the welfare services”.
In 2019-2021 she is member of the research group entitled After the reception. New social networks, housing and work solutions among migrants in Sicily and Calabria. Cospecs Department - Alsos Foundation (Bologna).
In 2019 she is scientific coordinator of the project “Migrations. Complexity and conflicts ", organized by the Migrantes Office of Messina in collaboration with the Cospecs department and in the same period is member of the scientific committee of the series of seminars entitled “The Stranger” (Cospecs department).
 
Some recent publications:

1)Tarsia T., Cellini G. (2022), Participatory Teaching and Research: A remote Fieldwork Initiative, «Italian Journal of Sociology of Education», 14 (1),187-205
2) Tarsia T. (2021), Tempi, contesti e incontri per uscire dalla seconda accoglienza. Strategie e conoscenze degli Operatori, in S. Greco, G. Tumminelli (a cura di), Migrazioni in Sicilia 2020, Mimesis, 264-280.
3) Tarsia T (2021), La co-costruzione del sapere con gli studenti nella ricerca partecipata e collaborativa, in F. Cappa et al (a cura di), Trasformazioni nell’università. Insegnamento e costruzione critica del sapere, Carocci, Roma, 77-86.
4) Tarsia T., Cappa F. (2021), Pratiche dell’incontro. Due casi di ricerca e formazione nelle relazioni d’aiuto, «Scuola Democratica», 3, 465-484
5) Tesauro T., Tarsia T (2021), Le pratiche teatrali nella formazione degli operatori sociali per costruire relazioni di ben-essere, «Welfare e Ergonomia», 2, 65-76
6) Tarsia Tiziana, Andrea Biagiotti (a cura di), Traiettorie dell'inclusione. Esperienze e strategie di lavoro sociale con le persone straniere, Carocci, 2020.
7)Tiziana Tarsia, La conoscenza tacita degli operatori sprar. Quando i problemi generano i saperi, in "Mondi migranti", 2, 2020.
8) Tiziana Tarsia, La ricerca partecipata come strumento di riflessività tra servizi e corsi di studi universitari, in "Autonomie locali e servizi sociali", 1, 2020.
9) Tiziana Tarsia, Sociologia e servizio sociale. Dalla teoria alla prassi, Carocci, 2019.
10) Tarsia, Tiziana, Pratiche relazionali nella seconda accoglienza per richiedenti asilo, in "Sociologia e politiche sociali", 3, 2018.