Profile
Biography
Fiorella Ciapessoni is a PhD candidate who joined the Centre for Housing Policy in 2015. She was awarded an Overseas Research Scholarship from the University of York.
Fiorella is from Uruguay and throughout her academic education she has been dedicated to the problem of homelessness and housing exclusion in Montevideo. Under the supervision of Lisa O’Malley and Nicholas Pleace her PhD thesis aims to develop a deeper understanding of the links between homelessness, offending, experiences of incarceration and processes of ex-offender resettlement in Uruguay. The overall objective is to contribute to empirical and theoretical understanding of the link between offending and homelessness and to help develop practical solutions to this social problem. At a broader level, the thesis also seeks to explore the roles of housing policies in the successful reintegration of offenders to community.
As an assistant researcher and assistant professor in the Sociology Department of the Faculty of Social Sciences (Universidad de la República) in Montevideo, she has been teaching various courses (Qualitative methods, Social Theory) since 2009. She also took her MA and undergraduate degree in Sociology at this University.
Her main research interests include homelessness, housing trajectories, role of housing policies, social policy, crime and resettlement policies for offenders. As well as these subjects, she has been participating in the area of 'Sociology of Work' at the Sociology Department since 2009. In 2013- 2014 Fiorella worked as a consultant for the Ministry of Social Development conducting research in Montevideo about homelessness from a gender perspective and direct care work.
Publications
Selected publications
BOOKS
Pucci, F; Nión, S & Ciapessoni, F (2013): Working conditions and the management of risks in Uruguayan forestry. CSIC- UdelaR. Montevideo, Uruguay
Pucci, F; Nión, S & Ciapessoni, F (2012): Collective bargaining and social actors in a leftlist government. Conflict, consensus and results. CSIC- UdelaR. Montevideo, Uruguay
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Trajtenberg, N; Vigna, A & Ciapessoni, F (2014): Reflections on the concept of legitimacy and its relevance within the prison environment. In: The Uruguay from Sociology volume XIX. (In press, accepted for publication in December 2014) Sociology Department, School of Social Sciences, Montevideo- Uruguay
Trajtenberg, N; Vigna, A Menese, P & Ciapessoni, F (2013): Reentry policies for persons in detention. In: The Uruguay from Sociology volume XIII. Sociology Department, School of Social Sciences, Montevideo- Uruguay
Pucci, F; Nión, S & Ciapessoni, F (2014): Collective bargaining in the first leftist government in Uruguay. Latin American Research Review (LARR). University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pensilvania - United States
Ciapessoni, F (2014): Contributions to understanding the link between homelessness, imprisonment and reentry. In Ana María Folle (Ed): Prisons in Uruguay in the XXI century. (In press, accepted for publication by Evaluation Support Program Publications- CSIC in December 2014) UdelaR, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Ciapessoni, F (2012): Homeless people inhabiting night shelters: redefining its discussion. In Laura Mota Díaz, Néstor Cohen y Antonio David Cattani (eds.): Latin America questioned. Mechanisms of inequality and social exclusion. University of México. School of Political and Social Sciences. ISBN: 978-607-401-539-3
Pucci, F; Nión, S & Ciapessoni, F (2012): Subcontracting, productivity and risks in Uruguayan forestry. In Juan Carlos Celis Ospina (ed) Labour outsourcing in Latin America: multidimensional looks. Latin-American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). Bs As, Argentina. ISBN: 978-958-8207-58-2
Pucci, F; Nión, S & Ciapessoni, F (2011): Consensus and dissension among the actors in the wage bargaining process. In: The Uruguay from Sociology (volume IX). Sociology Department, School of Social Sciences. Montevideo, Uruguay
Pucci, F; Nión, S; Ciapessoni, F & Rojido, E (2010): Old and new topics in the Uruguayan Collective bargaining. In: The Uruguay from Sociology (volume VIII). Sociology Department, School of Social Sciences. Montevideo, Uruguay
Ciapessoni, F (2009): Adjustments and Misadjustments: conceptual debates on homeless populations In: The Uruguay from Sociology (volume VII). Sociology Department, School of Social Sciences. Montevideo, Uruguay
