Social Policy
Lorenza Antonucci is associate professor in the department of social policy and deputy director of research at the College of Social Sciences at University of Birmingham. Antonucci also serves as a research associate at the European Social Observatory (OSE). Their research is concerned with understanding how European societies are changing and reacting to growing socioeconomic insecurity and the reconfiguration of the mechanisms of social protection, through welfare reforms or changes to the ‘welfare mixes’.
During their time at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Antonucci will investigate the causes and effects of the new politics of insecurity in Europe, specifically the social unease that led citizens in Europe to express increasing support for various forms of populism. Antonucci expects their research to develop the theory that connects precarity to populism; transpose measures of socioeconomic insecurity to populist research; and provide new empirical evidence on the link between insecurity and populism in Europe.
This information is accurate for the time period that the
visiting scholar is affiliated with CES.
Social Policy
