Sara Amadasi, PhD in Social Sciences, is tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies on Language and Culture at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Her research interests concern the sociology of childhood, promotion of dialogue, transnationalism, translanguaging, intercultural communication, qualitative and digital research methods.
In 2020 she published her first book with Professor Adrian Holliday, “Making sense of the Intercultural. Finding DeCentred Threads” (Routledge).
In 2022 she conducted a three years research, funded under the program PON “Ricerca e innovazione” 2014-2020. The research “L’uso di linguaggi digitali per la ricerca sociale e l’innovazione nelle imprese che erogano servizi alle persone” (Digital languages in social research and innovation in enterprises that provide services to people) investigated how digital tools (digital pictures and podcast) can promote children and young people’s personal narratives and to improve dialogue with children having migration background.