The Faculty of Social Sciences has a long tradition of research projects on the urgent problems of the contemporary world, in the awareness that merit investigation are often of a global nature and require multiple and integrated approaches.
The projects, funded through appropriate fundraising activities and in collaboration with international foundations, bring together research initiatives between the Faculties and between Italian and international universities, involving faculty professors and some of its students.
Current Projects
- Human Freedom in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, 2023-2026
- STRONG Programme – Research 2023: Decent Work – Indagine sul lavoro dei migranti a Roma: occupati tra dignità e sconvenienza [prof. R. Bongianni]
Completed Projects
- Neutralità climatica e decarbonizzazione. Interessi in gioco e salvaguardia del creato, 2021-2023
- STRONG Programme – Research 2022: Qualitative Interview and Art-based Research (part of the CREATE LS Post-doctoral Research: Creation and Care: Application of New Lifestyles and Interaction of Young People With Vulnerable Social Groups/Groups of People in Need, 2022-2023) [proff. M. M. Brgles – C. Colombi]
- Catholic University between Secularization and Identity (CUSI), 2013-2021
- Oltre il Covid-19: Welfare e democrazia in area post-sovietica. Il caso della Bielorussia, 2020-2021
- Single-mum Philippine a Roma. Una ricerca su un fenomeno identitario e comunitario filippino, tra tradizione e cambiamento, all’epoca dell’epidemia di corona virus, 2020-2021
- Foundational Reflections on Theology and Technology in a Digital Age, (FORE), 2016-2021
- Catholic Social Thought in Central and Eastern Europe Initiative (CST-CEE), 2017-2021
- STRONG Programme – Research 2021: Educazione alla Cittadinanza Globale. “Cittadine e cittadini di un mondo equo, sostenibile e solidale” [proff. P. Berbeglia – S. Tortora]
- STRONG Programme – Research 2020: Identità e appartenenza culturale [prof. A. Urso]
- STRONG Programme – Research 2019: Socio-Economic Contributions of Migrants’ Enterprises in Rome (SECMER) [prof. C. Colombi]
- Studio Realtà Programme – Research 2018: The Cultural Perception of Romanians in Rome [prof. A. Riccio]
2001-2016 The Pavan Chair
Here follow the main projects implemented and completed through the Pavan Chair for Social Ethics (2001-2016). The Chair has been established in 2oo1 as the heart of the empirical and theoretical research of FASS. For 15 years, the Pavan Chair promoted research with an ethical dimension on the urgent problems of the contemporary world, drawing together the specific methodological strengths of each social science with interdisciplinary skills, the latter being a strength of the Thomistic tradition, to address issues of our day.
- Bioethics, Human Rights and Multiethnicity, 2001-2003
- Elite theory, 2002-2003
- The Civil Condition of Immigrant Inmates in Italian Prisons, 2004-2006
- Preaching Justice: the Dominican Contribution to Social Ethics in the 20th Century, 2005-2008
- Social Ethics and Social Responsibility (RSI), 2007-2008
- Preaching Justice II, 2009-2016
