Chiara Bassetti

After a fellowship at the Department of Disciplines of Communication of the University of Bologna with the project DisCoPra, Chiara is now Post-doc Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Applied Ontology of the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISTC-CNR), working on the project VisCoSo. She teaches Qualitative Methods for Social Sciences at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento, where she took her Ph.D. in March 2010 with a thesisbased on a (self-)ethnographic research on the world of dance and aimed, within a phenomenological and ethnomethodological perspective, at the analysis of the role of the body and embodiment in everyday situated interaction as well as in long-term social processes. Among the research projects she worked on since her graduation in Disciplines of Communication in 2004 (University of Bologna, magna cum laude, thesis on Emergency Communication): Professions and semi-professions. Ethnographic analysis of occupational communities (PRIN 2006, National Coordinator Giolo Fele); MEDiCA: Medical Emergency Dispatch Centre Analysis; MAP e-ten: Mobile Adaptive Procedure, (EC FP IV, Gianni Jacucci); Traffic control as work (MIUR 2001, National Coordinator Cristina Zucchermaglio).