Dr. Maria Silvia D'Avolio

Work at ZHAW

Position

Postdoctoral Researcher

Focus

SNSF funded project (2022-2025) "The Leftist Architect in Milanese Architecture, 196X - 198X"

Experience

• Lecturer in Criminology
  University of Brighton (UK)
  01 / 2020 - 01 / 2022
• Research Assistant in Social Science and Urban Public Health
  King's College London (UK)
  03 / 2020 - 09 / 2020
• Associate Tutor in Sociology and Gender Studies
  University of Sussex (UK)
  09 / 2016 - 01 / 2020

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD in Sociology
  University of Sussex (UK)
  09 / 2016 - 07 / 2020
• MSc in Social Research Methods
  University of Sussex (UK)
  09 / 2015 - 08 / 2016
• MArch in Architecture
  Università degli studi di Firenze (Italy)
  09 / 2005 - 12 / 2011

Continuing Education

PGCert, Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice Education
University of Brighton (UK)
07 / 2021

Network

Membership of networks

• Former Convenor of the CITIES group of the British Sociological Association, UK (2020-2023)
• FHEA, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK

Projects

• Challenging or Reproducing the Status Quo? / Team member / Project ongoing

Publications

• Carnelli, Elettra; D'Avolio, Maria Silvia,

  2023.

  Stretching professional boundaries : Novella Sansoni as organic intellectual, administrator and architect.

  OASE.

  2023(116), pp. 68-82.

• D'Avolio, Maria Silvia; Pessoa Cavalcanti, Roxana; Dadusc, Deanna,

  2023.

  Anti-carceral feminism : abolitionist conversations on gender-based violence

  .

  In:

  Chatterjee, Sohini; Po-Han, Lee, eds.,

  Plural feminisms : navigating resistance as everyday praxis.

  London:

  Bloomsbury Academic.

  pp. 223-242.

• D'Avolio, Maria Silvia,

  2023.

  Feminist practices in architecture : how women develop resistance through criticism and action

  .

  In:

  Chatterjee, Sohini; Lee, Po-Han, eds.,

  Plural feminisms : navigating resistance as everyday praxis.

  London:

  Bloomsbury Academic.

  pp. 75-92.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• D'Avolio, M. S., 2021, Book Review of Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World by Leslie Kern. International Feminist Journal of Politics.
• D'Avolio, M. S., 2017, "Developing an organic strategy of change to challenge gendered stereotypes around the technological (in)ability of women in architecture". Sociotechnical Environments: Proceedings of the 6th STS Italia Conference. STS Italia Publishing.

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