Short bio: Michela Cozza is Associate Professor at Mälardalen University, Department of Organization and Management, in Sweden. In 2021 she was appointed as Subject representative for “Organisation and Management”. She is member of the Council of EASST-European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. Since 2016 she is member of the New Organisation & Management Practices research group (previously NMP-New Management Practices) at the same university, and collaborates with RUCOLA-Research Unit on Communication, Organizational Learning and Aesthetics at the University of Trento (Italy). She is member of the international board of the doctoral programme in Applied Social Sciences of Sapienza-University of Rome (Italy). She is member of the editorial board of Gender, Work & Organization, and Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science and Technology Studies.
Long bio: born in 1978 in Italy, Michela Cozza was trained as a sociologist. She holds a PhD in Information Systems and Organizations (University of Trento). From April 2005 to June 2006 she was a research assistant at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento and a research fellow from November 2008 to March 2014. Then, she was a senior research fellow at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science from February 2014 to February 2016. In 2016, she moved to Mälardalen University and, starting in 2021, she is subject-representative in Organisation and Management. Her current research projects focus on welfare technology and are aimed at studying the relationship between “the social” and “the material” with regard to the implications of digitalization on care practices. Practice-based theorizing and science and technology studies (STS) inform Michela Cozza’s work. Her studies are grounded on a qualitative methodology but are also marked by experimental approaches and methods alternative to the most traditional research techniques. In this regard, she is a certified Lego Serious Play facilitator and is also trained to apply the Open Space Technology method. She also likes to explore and apply art-based methods and participatory design methods. Michela Cozza is a registered EU Expert. She regularly reviews papers for international journals and international conferences and, in 2007, she got the special mention of “Excellent reviewer” from the Senior Technical Program Chair of ACM-CHI2017 Conference. She organizes and co-organizes conference tracks and workshops in her areas of expertise (see below). She regularly attends scientific conferences and was also an invited speaker in international workshops. She is a member of the Council of EASST-European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (2021-2024). She is a member of the Nordic Research Network: Health and Welfare Technology aimed to consolidate knowledge, research, higher education and experiences in the field of health and welfare technology (HWT) with a user perspective. Michela is also one of the founding members of Socio-Gerontechnology Network aimed at bringing together international researchers with a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (including STS, critical and cultural gerontechnology, sociology, anthropology, age studies, design sciences and education) who share an interest in exploring the entanglements of ageing and technologies. She is the author of a number of publications in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in books, and conference proceedings. Her contributions are marked by interdisciplinary collaborations. Michela Cozza is co-author of the book Il genere nelle organizzazioni (Carocci-Le Bussole 2009) and author of the book Key Concepts in Science and Technology Studies (Studentlitteratur 2020).
Honours and awards
2017 – Special mention of “Excellent reviewer” from the Senior Technical Program Chair of ACM-CHI2017 Conference (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Overall Acceptance Rate: 23%).
2012 – Travel Grant by EASST-European Association for the Study of Science and Technology for the 4S/EASST Conference “Design and displacement – social studies of science and technology”, Copenhagen-Denmark, October 17-20, 2012
2012 – Scholarship by STS Italia – Italian Association for the Study of Science and Technology for the 4° National STS Italia Conference “Emerging Technologies, Social Worlds” Rovigo-Italy, June 21-23, 2012
Research interests: health and welfare technologies, care/caring, methodology
Areas of Expertise: Organization Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Gender and Feminist Studies, Qualitative Methodology, Post Qualitative Inquiry
Publications
Articles
Jaramillo, L., Cozza, M., Hallin, A., Lammi, I, Gherardi, S. (2023) “Readingwriting: Becoming-together in a Composition”, Special issue on “Embodied Writing”, Culture & Organization (open access) (https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2206132)
Cozza, M., Ellison, K.L., Katz, S. (2022) “Hacking Age. Biohacking and Technologies of the Body”, Sociology Compass, 16(10), e13034, https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13034
Cozza, M. (2021) “Affective Engagement in Knowledgemaking”, Tecnoscienza. Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 12(2), pp. 115-123 (ISSN 2038-3460) (open access)
Cozza, M., Bruzzone, S., Crevani, L. (2021) “Materialities of care for older people: caring together/apart in the political economy of caring apparatus”, Special issue on “Progressing critical posthuman perspectives in health sociology” Health Sociology Review, 30(3), pp. 308-322 (https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2021.1976067) (open access)
Wamala Andersson, S., Richardson, M., Cozza, M., Lindén, M., Redekop, K. (2021) “Addressing evidence in health and welfare technology interventions from different perspectives”, Health Policy and Technology, 10(2), 100519 (DOI: 10.1016/j.hlpt.2021.100519).
Cozza, M., Östlund, B., Peine, A. (2021) Editors of the Special Issue “When theory meets practice. Entanglements of ageing and technology at the cross-roads of STS and Age Studies”, Tecnoscienza. Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 11(2), pp. 5-11 (http://www.tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/issue/current/showToc) (open access)
Cozza, M. (2021) “Introduction” of the Crossing Boundaries section “Ageing as a Boundary Object. Thinking Differently of Ageing and Care” of the Special Issue “When theory meets practice. Entanglements of ageing and technology at the cross-roads of STS and Age Studies”, Tecnoscienza. Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 11(2), pp. 117-119, (http://www.tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/issue/current/showToc). (open access)
Cozza, M., Gherardi, S., Graziano, V., Johansson, J., Mondon-Navazo, M., Murgia, A., Trogal, K. (2021) “Covid-19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices. Repair work”, Gender, Work & Organization, 28(S1), pp. 190-208 (https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12524) (open access)
Cozza, M., Cusinato, A., Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A. (2020) “Atmosphere in Participatory Design’, Science as Culture, vol. 29, n. 2, pp. 269-292 (SCOPUS 2-s2.0-85074514126) (Print ISSN: 0950-5431 Online ISSN: 1470-1189) (https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2019.1681952) (open access)
Benozzo, A., Carey, N., Cozza, M., Elmenhorst, C., Fairchild, N., Koro-Ljungberg, M., Taylor, C.A. (2019) “Disturbing the AcademicConferenceMachine: Post-Qualitative Re-turnings”, Gender, Work & Organization, n. 26, pp. 87-106 (SCOPUS 2-s2.0-85059055499) (ISSN:0968-6673E-ISSN:1468-0432) (https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12260) (open access)
Cozza M., Crevani, L., Hallin, A., Schaeffer, J. (2018) “Future ageing: welfare technology practices for our future older selves”, Futures. The journal of policy, planning and futures studies, vol 109, pp. 117-129 (SCOPUS 2-s2.0-85063729097) (ISSN:0016-3287) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2018.03.011) (open access)
Gherardi, S., Cozza, M., Poggio, B. (2018) “Organizational members as storywriters: On organizing practices of reflexivity”, Learning Organization, vol. 25, n. 2, pp. 51-62 (SCOPUS 2-s2.0-85041552445) (ISSN:0969-6474) (https://doi.org/10.1108/TLO-08-2017-0080)
Cozza M., De Angeli, A., Tonolli, L., (2017) “Ubiquitous technologies for older people”, Special Issue on “Histories of Ubicomp”, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 21, n. 3, pp. 607-619 (SCOPUS 2-s2.0-85012902844) (ISSN:1617-4909E-ISSN:1617-4917) (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-017-1003-7) (open access)
Cozza, M. (2014) “I parchi scientifico-tecnologici: da strutture insediative a infrastrutture connettive”, Numero speciale su ”Le trame dell’innovazione: infrastrutture, reti e discorsi”, Polis, vol. 28, n. 3, pp. 393-416 (SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-84919382209) (ISSN: 1120-9488) (DOI: 10.1424/78339)
Cozza, M. (2014) “Aprire i modelli di business. Dalla condivisione delle (buone) idee all’organizzazione dell’innovazione”, Sviluppo & Organizzazione (ANVUR classification: “A”, Area 08), n. 257, pp. 63-74 (ISSN: 0391-7045)
Cozza, M. (2013) “Remembering and telling the past: a qualitative study of organizational change”, Special Issue on ”Reflective practices in workplaces”, Educational Reflective Practices, vol. 2, pp. 123-140 (ISSN: 2240-7758) (DOI: 10.3280/ERP2013-002008)
Cozza, M. (2012) “Narrare il cambiamento organizzativo: da «fuoco» a «sfondo»”, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, n. 4, pp. 661-685 (SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-84872918252) (ISSN: 0486-0349) (DOI: 10.1423/38851)
Cozza, M. (2011) “Bridging Gender Gaps, Networking in Computer Science”, Gender, Technology and Development, vol. 15, n. 2, pp. 319-337 (SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-80052397685) (ISSN: 0971-8524) (https://doi.org/10.1177/097185241101500207)
Cozza, M. (2010) “Fare e dis-fare il genere. Per una critica dei processi di significazione mediati dalla tecnologia”, Temperanter. International Quarterly Journal, vol. 1, n. 2/3, pp. 119-130 (ISSN: 2037-2965)
Cozza, M. (2008) “Narratives on platform: stories for women in computer science”, Special Issue on ”Narrative and interactive learning environments”, International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning, vol. 18, n.2, pp. 197-213 (SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-40249105872) (ISSN: 1560-4624) (https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCEELL.2008.017376)
Books
Cozza, M. (2020) Key Concepts in Science and Technology Studies, Studentlitteratur, Sweden (214 pages) (ISBN: 9789144133638)
Cozza, M. and Gennai, F. (2009) Il genere nelle organizzazioni, Carocci-Le Bussole, Roma (112 pages) (ISBN: 978-88-430-4882-3) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Books in preparation
Cozza, M. and Gherardi, S. (Eds.) The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory – Re-imagining Method in Organization Studies and Beyond, Palgrave
Cozza, M., Carreri, A. and Poggio, B. (Eds.) Ethics of Engagement in Research Practices: Response-ability in Organization and Management, Routledge.
Chapters
Gherardi, S., Cozza, M., Hoppe, M. (2023) “Academy in my flesh: Affective athleticism and performative writing”, in Daniel Nehring and Kristiina Brunila (Eds.) Affective capitalism in the Academia, University of Bristol Press, pp. 175-195 (ISBN 9781447357841) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Calás, M., Smirchich, L., Cozza, M. et al. (2023) “What to do about “The Human” in Organization Studies? Thinking/saying/doing with the Anthropocene, pandemics, and thereafters” in Marta B. Calás and Linda Smirchich (Eds.) A Research Agenda for Organization Studies, Feminisms and New Materialisms, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 177-193 (ISBN 9781800881266) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Cozza, M., Gherardi, S. (2023) “Feminism under erasure in new feminist materialism as a case of symbolic manspreading” in Marta B. Calas and Linda Smirchich (Eds.) A Research Agenda for Organization Studies, Feminisms and New Materialisms, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 33-54 (ISBN 9781800881266) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Cozza, M., Gherardi, S. (2022) “Atmospheric Attunement in the Becoming of a Happy Object. ‘That special Gut Feeling’”, in Barbara Simpson and Line Revsbaek (Eds.) Doing process Research in Organizations, Oxford University Press, pp. 16-38 (hardback: ISBN 9780192849632) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Cozza, M. (2021) “Elderliness: The Agential Inseparability of Ageing and Assistive Technologies”, in Alexander Peine, Barbara Marshall, Wendy Martin, Louis Neven (Eds.), Socio-Gerontechnology – Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology, London, Routledge, pp. 70-84 (hardback: ISBN 9780367230821; eBook: ISBN 9780429278266) (available on WorldCat Catalogue) (chapter: open access)
Cozza, M. and Betti, D. (2015) “Da architettura tecnologica a infrastruttura sociotecnica”, in Carla Faralli, Raffaella Brighi, Michele Martoni (Eds.), Strumenti, diritti, regole e nuove relazioni di cura. Il paziente europeo protagonista nell’e-health, Giappichelli Editore, Torino, pp. 233-242 (paper: ISBN 978 88 9210067 1; pdf: ISBN 978 88 9215677 7)
Cozza, M. (2015) “VEGA-VEnice GAteway for Science and Technology Park: it is a generative infrastructure?”, in Augusto Cusinato and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (Eds.), Knowledge-creating Milieus in Europe: Firms Cities and Territories, Springer, Berlin, pp. 139-156 (ISBN: 978-3-642-45172-0) (DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-45173-7) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Cozza, M. (2014) “From Science Parks to Infrastructures”, in Alessandro Mongili and Giuseppina Pellegrino (Eds.), Information Infrastructure(s). Boundaries, Ecologies, Multiplicity, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, pp. 282-306 (ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-6655-2) (ISBN-10: 1-4438-6655-5) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Cozza, M. (2013)“Mentoring as Practice, Practices of Mentoring”, in Michael F. Shaughnessy (Eds), Mentoring: Practices, Potential Challenges and Benefits, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY, pp.145-166 (ISBN: 978-1-62808-574-7) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Cozza, M. (2011) “Narrare il cambiamento, organizzare il significato”, in Michele La Rosa (ed.), La ricerca sociologica e i temi del lavoro. Giovani ricercatori italiani a confronto, Franco Angeli, Milano, pp. 11-25 (ISBN: 978-88-568-4531-0) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Cozza, M. (2011) “Contesti di genere della tecnoscienza”, in Andrea Bonaccorsi and MassimianoBucchi (eds.), Trasformare conoscenza, trasferire tecnologia. Dizionario critico delle scienze sociali sulla trasformazione produttiva della conoscenza, Marsilio, Venezia, pp. 83-85 (ISBN: 978-88-317-0994-1) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Cozza, M. and Poggio, B. (2010) “C’era una volta l’ITC”, in Alberto Zanutto (ed.), Trasformazioni. Identità istituzionale e organizzazione della ricerca: la Fondazione Bruno Kessler, FBK Press, Trento, pp. 77-104 (ISBN: 978-88-905389-0-2) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Gherardi S. and Cozza, M. (2010) “Narrare la quotidianità in FBK”, in Alberto Zanutto (ed.), Trasformazioni. Identità istituzionale e organizzazione della ricerca: la Fondazione Bruno Kessler, FBK Press, Trento, pp. 105-135 (ISBN: 978-88-905389-0-2) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Cozza, M. (2009) “Gender and Technology: Mind the Gap!”, in Anette Hallin and Tina Karrbom-Gustavsson (eds.) Organizational Communication and Sustainable Development: ICTs for Mobility, IGI Publishing-Information Science Reference, Hershey PA, pp. 256-274 (SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-84900619081) (ISBN: 978-160566822-2) (DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-822-2)
Cozza, M. (2009) “Identità, figurazioni, artefatti. Dal fare genere all’orizzonte cyborg” in Barbara Poggio (ed.), Ai confini del genere. Prospettive emergenti di riflessione e ricerca, Edizioni 31, Trento, pp. 135-153 (ISBN-13: 978-88-88224-56-5) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Cozza, M., Murgia, A., and Poggio, B. (2008) “Traiettorie ed intrecci nelle storie di carriera di uomini e donne. Una lettura di genere delle transizioni tra lavoro e non lavoro” in Gabriele Ballarino and Ida Regalia (eds.) Disuguaglianze di oggi: territori, lavoro, società”, Franco Angeli, Milano, pp. 201-212 (ISSN: 0392-5048) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Cozza, M. (2007) “La cultura degli opposti. Pensiero scientifico e sviluppo tecnologico in una prospettiva di genere”, in Michele La Rosa, Ida Regalia and Eugenio Zucchetti (eds.) Vecchi e nuovi dualismi nell’analisi dell’economia, del lavoro, delle organizzazioni, Franco Angeli, Milano, pp. 99-109 (ISBN: 9788846486905) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Chapters in preparation
Cozza, M., Gherardi, S. “Posthuman Feminism and Feminist New Materialism: Towards an ethico-onto-epistemology in research practices”, in Saija Katila, Emma Bell and Susan Meriläinen (Eds.) Handbook of Feminist Research Methodologies in Management and Organization Studies, Edward Elgar Publishing
Crevani, L., Cozza, M., Bruzzone, S. “Participatory approach to study projects characterised by shared power: The case of welfare technology introduction in Sweden”, in Pasian, B. (Ed.) Designs, Methods and Practices for Research of project Management (2nd edition)
Cozza, M. “Ageism” in Jean Helms Mills, Albert J. Mills, Kristin S. Williams, Regine Benda (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Gender and Management.
Book Reviews
Cozza, M. (2022) Anziani, salute e società. Politiche di welfare, discorso pubblico e cura quotidiana, by Francesco Miele, il Mulino, 2021. in: Tecnoscienza. Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 13(2), pp-156-159 (ISSN 2038-3460)
Cozza, M. (2015) Fiori in famiglia. Storia e storie di Eva Mameli Calvino, by Elena Accati, Editoriale Scienza, Collana “Donne nella scienza”, 2011; Pannocchie da Nobel. Storia e storie di Barbara McClintock, by Cristiana Pulcinelli, Editoriale Scienza, Collana “Donne nella scienza”, 2012 . Review Article in: About Gender-Rivista internazionale di studi di genere, 4(7), pp. 277-279 (ISSN 2279-5057)
Cozza, M. (2013) Technology, Culture, Family. Influences on Home Life, by Elisabeth B. Silva, New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2010. Review Article in: Tecnoscienza. Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 4(1), pp. 188-191 (ISSN 2038-3460)
Proceedings
Cozza M. (2018) Interoperability and Convergence for Welfare Technology. In: Zhou J., Salvendy G. (eds) Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Applications in Health, Assistance, and Entertainment. ITAP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10927. Springer, Cham, pp. 13-24 (DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92037-5_2)(available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Andersson, C., Cozza, M., Crevani, L., Schunnesson, J. (2018) “Infrastructuring for remote night monitoring: frictions in striving for transparency when digitalising care service”, 16th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Nancy, France, 4-8 June, 2018 (DOI 10.18420/ecscw2018_006 ISSN 2510-2591) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Crevani, L., Cozza, M. (2018) “Complementary representational practices for articulating matters of concern”, proceeding of the 5thParticipatory Innovation Conference 2018, Eskilstuna, Sweden, pp. 270-279 (http://pin-c.sdu.dk/2018.html) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Cozza, M., Tonolli, L., D’Andrea, V. (2016) ”Subversive Participatory Design: Reflections on a case-study”, Proceeding of the 14th PDC-Participatory Design Conference ”Participatory Design in an Era of Participation”, ACM New York, NY, USA,Vol. 2, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus (Danmark), August 15-19 2016 (DOI10.1145/2948076.2948085 ISBN 978-1-4503-4136-3) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Macchia, T., D’Andrea, V., Mazzini, R., Di Fiore, A., Cozza, M. (2016) ” Exploring Theater for Participatory Design” Proceeding of the 14th PDC-Participatory Design Conference ”Participatory Design in an Era of Participation”, ACM New York, NY, USA, Vol. 2, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus (Danmark), August 15-19, 2016 (DOI 10.1145/2948076.2948105 ISBN: 978-1-4503-4136-3) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
De Angeli, A., Cozza, M., Jovanovic, M., Tonolli, L., Mushiba, M., McNeill, A., Coventry, L. (2016) “Understanding Motivations in Designing for Older Adults”, Proceeding of the 12th COOP-International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Trento (Italy), May 22-27, 2016 (Print: ISBN 978-3-319-33463-9 Online: 978-3-319-33464-6) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Poderi, G., Cozza, M. (2016) “Infrastructuring Collaboration”, Proceeding of the 12th COOP-International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems “Making Together”, University of Trento (Italy), May 22-27, 2016 (Print: ISBN 978-3-319-33463-9 Online: 978-3-319-33464-6) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Cozza, M. and De Angeli, A. (2015) “Infrastructuring diversity in stereotypes”, Proceeding of the 5th international workshop on Infrastructures for healthcare (IHC): Patient-centred Care and Patient Generated Data, Trento, Italy, 18-19 June 2015 (DOI 10.13140/RG.2.1.3501.0729)
Cozza, M. and De Angeli, A. (2015) “Scaling up participatory design”, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS Development (STPIS’15) co-located with the 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2015), Stockholm (Sweden), June 9, available at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1374/ (ISSN 1613-0073) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Cozza, M. (2013) “Doing (Open) Innovation through Networking”, Conference Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference on Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies on Science Technology and Society, Graz (Austria), 6-7-May-2013, available at: http://www.ifz.tugraz.at/ias/IAS-STS/Publications/Proceedings-12th-IAS-STS-Annual-Conference-6-7-May-2013 (ISSN 2304-4233; DOI 10.13140/RG.2.1.1928.2087)
Other Articles
Cozza, M. “Science and Technology Parks in Italy”, EASST Review, vol. 32, n. 2, 2013, pp. 6-8 (http://easst.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/review_2013_06.pdf (ISSN 0012-8708, EISSN 1507-7187) (available on WorldCat Catalogue)
Conferences
Chair
After-method in organization studies IV, Mälardalen University-Campus Västerås, 16-17 June 2022 (pre-conference event – PhD workshop, June 15 2022)
Co-convenor
with Nina Klimburg-Witjes (Vienna University) & Sally Wyatt (Maastricht University); Sub-plenary “Techno-science-fictional Futures: Methods, Forms, Norms”; Guests: Laura Watts (University of Edinburgh), Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (University of Westminster), Katja Mayer (University of Vienna); EASST Conference, Madrid, July 6-9, 2022.
with Francis Lee (Chalmers University of Technology); Track “Data, Algorithms, Absence and Alterity”; EASST Conference, Madrid, July 6-9, 2022.
with Silvia Bruzzone and Lucia Crevani (Mälardalen University); Track “Doing research in technoscience as affective engagement”; 8th STS Italia conference “Dis”entangling technoscience: vulnerability, responsability and justice”, University of Trieste (Italy), June 18-20, 2020
with Neil Carey (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Mirka Koro-Ljungberg (Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA), Angelo Benozzo (University of Valle d’Aosta, Aosta, Italy), Carol Taylor (Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Nikki Fairchild (University of Chichester, UK), Constance Elmenhorst (independent scholar, Norway ); Workshop: Autopsy goes roes: A theatrical experiment on method, “After method in organization studies III” Conference, Västerås (Sweden), September 27-29, 2017
with Lucia Crevani (Mälardalen University, Sweden). Panel on “Ageing and Technologies”; IS4SI Summit “Digitalisation for a Sustainable Society. Embodied, Embedded, Networked, Empowered through Information, Computation & Cognition!”, Gothenburg (Sweden), June 12-16, 2017
with Teresa Macchia and Vincenzo D’Andrea, Angela Di Fiore (University of Trento, Italy), and Roberto Mazzini (Cooperativa Giolli-Parma). Workshop ” Exploring Theater for Participatory Design”; 14th PDC-Participatory Design Conference ”Participatory Design in an Era of Participation”, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus (Denmark), August 15-19, 2016
with Lucia Crevani (Mälardalen University, Sweden). Track ”Emplacing gender relations in organization: sociomateriality and spatiality of doing gender”; GWO- 9th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender, Work & Organization, Keele University, Staffordshire (England), 29th June-1st July 2016
with Giacomo Poderi (University of Trento, Italy). Workshop “Infrastructuring Collaboration”; 12th COOP-International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems ”Making Together”, University of Trento (Italy), May 22-27, 2016
with Giacomo Poderi, Francesca Fiore, Teresa Macchia, and Linda Tonolli (University of Trento, Italy). 12th edition of ALPIS seminar on Information Systems ”Beyond creativity, toward collaboration in practice”, University of Trento-interAction lab (Italy), February 1o-13, 2016
with Giusi Orabona, Giacomo Poderi, and Maurizio Teli (University of Trento, Italy). Track “De-Constructing the Smart City, Reassembling Urban Life”; 14th Annual STS Conference Graz 2015 “Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies”, Graz (Austria), May 11-12, 2015
with Luca Guzzetti (University of Genova, Italy). Track “The Science and Technology Park: Steps to an Ecology of Innovation”; 5th International Conference “A Matter of Design: making society through science and technology”, Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, Milano (Italy), June 12-14, 2014
with Vincenzo D’andrea, Antonella De Angeli (University of Trento, Italy). Track “Participatory design in “non-standard” contexts, with “extra-ordinary” users ”; 5th International Conference “A Matter of Design: making society through science and technology”, Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, Milano (Italy), June 12-14, 2014
Invited speaker
2022 “Materialities of care for older people: caring together/apart in the political economy of caring apparatus”, Research seminar, Aalto University, Finland, 25 March 2022
2021 “Materialities of caring for older people”, STS seminar, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, December 17, 2021
2021 “Posthumanism as a way forward for Organization studies?”, Department of Organization & Management, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, April 14, 2021
2020 “What is evidence? How is evidence addressed in health and welfare technology interventions from different perspectves?”, webinar organised by the School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Mälardalen University, October 8, 2020
2017 ”STS-inspired design”, Workshop on “Science and Technology Studies in Gerontology – A theoretical framework” hosted by Geriatriekongress, Vienna-Austria, April 20-21, 2017
2015 “Generative infrastructures for innovation”, Alpine ski seminar on Information Systems 2015 “Symposium on infrastructuring for the common good”, Carisolo-Italy, February 11-15, 2015
2014 “I Parchi Scientifici e Tecnologici sono infrastrutture per l’innovazione tecnoscientifica ?”, conference organised by STS Italia and hosted by Genova Science Festival, Genova-Italy, October 24-25, 2014
2013 “Smart Cities Genere e Inclusione. L’intelligenza dei territori e le differenze” , event organized by BolognaFiere (national exhibition organizer) and Forum PA (national company specialized in public relations and institutional communication), Bologna-Italy, hosted by Smart Cities ExhibitionOctober 16-18, 2013
2013 “Smart Cities and Communities: An Italian perspective”, Panel discussion organized by Trento RISE, Italian National Association of Municipalities, Association of Trento Municipalities and by the Italian node of the EIT ICT Labs, hosted “Digital Cities of the Future” event, Trento-Italy, September 3, 2013
2013 “Patient empowerment ed altre retoriche. Percorsi di analisi dei sistemi informativi sanitari”, Ph.D. course in “Diritto e Nuove Tecnologie” [Law and new technologies], University of Bologna (Italy), April 11, 2013
2010 “Gender employment segregation in Europe: a big picture”, Thematic Workshop on “Gender segregation in the labour market and tools for overcoming IT”, Project Winnet8-Interreg IVC, Venezia-Italy, November 29, 2010
2008 “Feminism, Organization Theory and Their Others”, Panel discussion, Gothenburg Research Institute, University of Gothenburg-Sweden, May 6, 2008.
2007 “Storie di carriera”, Lecture at the National Final Conference of the Equal Project on “Pratiche di lavoro e pratiche di genere in provincial di Trento. Risultati di ricerca del progetto Equal – GELSO”, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento-Italy, February 15, 2007.
2005 “Certification Systems regarding gender policies in enterprises and public administrations”, Steering Group Meeting of the Transnational CHOICES Project Consortium, Trento-Italy, October 25, 2005
2004 “Informatica che p@ssione! Donne e uomini al lavoro nel settore dell’Informatica”, with Barbara Poggio at the National Conference “Da Ipazia a Lara Croft. Donne, Tecnologia e Scienza”, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento-Italy, September 29, 2004
2004 “ “Con voce differente”: gender e management negli Stati Uniti degli anni Venti del ’900”, Introduction to the Seminar on Mary Parker Follett with Prof. Raffaella Baritono (University of Bologna), at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento-Italy, March 9, 2004
Presentations at international workshops and conferences (without proceedings)
2022, “The Pearl Story: A String Figure for a Speculative Fabulated Ageing”, European Congress of Qualitative Inquire, Portsmouth 11-13 January 2023
2022, “ ‘It just blinks’ – The becoming-older-with welfare technologies”, 4th International Socio-Gerontechnology Conference, Bristol, 8-9 September 2022
2020 “Matter of care when introducing technology: the case of remote monitoring at night by camera”, Crevani, L., Bruzzone, S., Cozza, M., ISG’s 12 th World Conference of Gerontechnology, Trondheim, Norway, 6-9 October, 2020
2018 “Matters of concern in welfare technology”, Cozza, M., Crevani, L., EASST Conference, Lancaster, 25-28 July, 2018
2018 “The agential inseparability of ageing and technoscience”, 2nd International Workshop on Socio-gerontechnology, Barcelona- Castelldefels, 21-22 June, 2018
2018 “Radicant writing”, Pagliarusco, C. and Cozza, M., 10th Gender Work & Organization Conference, Sydney, 13-16 June, 2018
2018 “Infrastructuring for remote night monitoring: frictions in striving for transparency when digitalising care service”, Andersson, C., Cozza, M., Crevani, L., Schunnesson, J., 16th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Nancy, France, 4-8 June, 2018
2018 “Engagement by infrastructuring”, Cozza, M., 24th Nordic Congress of Gerontology, May 2-4 2018 – Oslo, Norway (invited paper)
2018 “Working through/with nomadic (post)research: Bag experimentations”, Fairchild, N., Taylor, C., Elmenhorst, C., Koro-Ljungberg, M., Benozzo, A., Carey, N., Cozza, M., European Congress of Qualitative Inquire, Leuven (Belgium), February 6-9, 2018
2018 ”Narratives as boundary objects”, Cozza, M., Gherardi, P., Poggio, B., European Congress of Qualitative Inquire, Leuven (Belgium), February 6-9, 2018
2017 ”Reflexivity in Action in the Era of ‘Active Aging’”, Cozza, M., European Congress of Qualitative Inquire, Leuven (Belgium), February 7-10, 2017
2016 ”Ageing and Assistive Technologies: An Epistemological Framework”, Cozza, M., Crevani, L., Hallin, A., Schaeffer, J., ifip WG8.2 Working Conference ”Beyond Interpretivism? New Encounters with Technology and organisation”, Dublin (Ireland), December 9-10, 2016
2014 “Have you done the homework? From a Problem-Solving Perspective to a Participatory Approach”, Cozza, M., D’Andrea, V., EASST Conference, September 17-19, 2014, Torun-Poland
2013 “Doing Open Innovation through a heterogeneous networking”, 11th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), August 28-31, 2013, Torino-Italy
2012 “Heterogeneous density in Italian Science and Technology Parks”, 4S-EASST Conference, October 17-20, 2012, Copenhagen-Denmark
2012 “Eterogeneità e densità «sociomateriale» nei Parchi Scientifici e Tecnologici”, 4° National STS Italia Conference, June 21-23, 2012, Rovigo-Italy
2012 “The Role of Science Parks in the transformation of knowledge”, II Encuentro de la Red de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia del Estado Espanol (esCTS), May 23-25, 2012, Gijon-Spain.
2011 “GEN.TE. GENere e professionisti TEcnopolitani”, First Italian Forum for Innovation Studies, November 21-22, 2011, Rovigo-Italy
2009 “Genere e Tecnoscienza”, StS Italia – IV Workshop nazionale, June 11-12 2009, Padova-Italy
2008 “Fare e disfare il genere. Studiare la tecnologia in un’ottica di genere”, Second StS Italia Conference, June 19-21 2008, Genova-Italy
2007 “Traiettorie ed intrecci nelle storie di carriera di uomini e donne. Una lettura di genere delle transizioni tra lavoro e non lavoro”, National Conference of AIS-ELO (Italian Association of Sociology-Econmy Labour Organization) May 25 2007, Napoli-Italy
2006 “Diversity Management. Mentoring to improve gender differences”, IFSAM VIIIth World Congress, September 28 2006, Berlin-Germany
2006 “La cultura degli opposti. Pensiero scientifico e sviluppo tecnologico in una prospettiva di genere”, National Conference of AIS-ELO (Italian Association of Sociology-Econmy Labour Organization), 3 Febbruary 2006, Bologna-Italy
2005 “Passion and Seductions. Men and Women in IS world”, Seminar “The Trento Seminar: April in Paris”, Ecole des Mines, April 21 2005, Paris-France
Press
26 June 2018: “En robot med uppdrag att rädda välfärden” [in English: “A robot with a mission to save the welfare”] ETC-Ekonomi https://www.etc.se/ekonomi/en-robot-med-uppdrag-att-radda-valfarden
21 February 2018: “Brist på forskning som problematiserar välfärdsteknik” [in English: “Lack of research that problematizes welfare technology”] Medicin-Digital Hälsa https://www.insiktmedicin.se/articles/512128/2018-02-21-10-58-53-brist-pa-forskning-som-problematiserar-valfardsteknik
14 December 2016: ”Så kan man samarbeta för att öka livskvaliteten hos äldre” [in English: “This way you can work together to increase the quality of life of the elderly”] Mälardalen University webpage – News
Miscellaneous
Blog: 27 November 2020, “Changing perspectives, Infrastructuring care“, by Michela Cozza, Medical Anthropology, UCL
Blog: 27 September 2019, “Design and Social Innovation in an Ageing Society”, by Michela Cozza, International Network for Critical Gerontology
Poster: 23-24 January 2018, MVTe-Mötesplats Välfärdsteknologi och E-hälsa, “Välfärdsteknik I 5 illustrationer: Vad tycker du?/Welfare technology in 5 illustrations: What do you think?”, Cozza, Michela and Crevani, Lucia, Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering
Webpage: “Meningsfull välfärdsteknik genom samverkan – upptäck hur! / Meaningful welfare technology through collaboration – discover how!” http://co-wt.se/home (Primary funder: Vinnova 2016-03170)
Youtube: “Problematising welfare technology” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR4awvELz5c (Primary funder: Vinnova 2016-03170)
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