11ICSSM Keynote Speakers
Enrica Amaturo
Enrica Amaturo is full Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II. Past President of the Italian Association of Sociology (AIS) and former Director of the Department of Social Sciences from 2013 to 2018, and Dean of the Faculty of Sociology from 2002 to 2006. Currently, she is the Director of the PhD course in Social Sciences and Statistics. She was awarded the recognition of Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for participation in the task force for the COVID-19 emergency. Her main scientific interests focuses on social exclusion processes, inequality, and social stratification and the use of big data and big corpora for the analysis of digital ecosystems
Nina Baur
Nina Baur is Professor for Methods of Social Research at TU Berlin (Germany). Her main research fields are social science methodology, historical sociology and economic sociology. She was RC33 President (2014 – 2018) and is a Board Member of RC56 (Historical Sociology), a member of the DFG scientific networks on “Mixed Methods and Multimethod Research in Empirical Social Research” (MMMR) and „Global Cultures of Enquête: Towards a Praxeology of Surveying (17th – 21st Century)”. From 2020 to 2024, she directed the “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (SMUS), which linked academic institutions from 48 countries in 8 world regions, and she is a member of the Collaborative Research Center “Refiguration of Spaces” (CRC 1265).
Juan Piovani
Juan Piovani holds a PhD in Methodology of the Social Sciences (Sapienza Università di Roma) and a MSc in Advanced Social Research Methods and Statistics (City, University of London). Currently, Juan is coordinator of the Latin American Network of Social Sciences Methodology (RedMet), Full professor of Social Research Methods (Universidad Nacional de La Plata) and Principal researcher of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) of Argentina. He is also co-editor of International Sociology (ISA-SAGE). His main research interests are the history of sociological methods and the development of social sciences in Latin America.
Mike Savage
Mike Savage is Professorial Research Fellow at the LSE’s International Inequalities Institute. He is an expert in the study of social class and inequality, and has pioneered new research methods and innovative data sources throughout his career. He was one of the leaders of the Great British Class Survey which led to the best selling ‘Social Class in the 21st Century’ and in 2021 published ‘The Return of Inequality: social change and the weight of the past’.
Vera Toepoel
Dr. Vera Toepoel is head of the Methodology Department at Statistics Netherlands. Her work focuses on survey methodology, and innovations in particular. She has been the President of RC33 and the President of the European Survey Research Association. She is the author of the book ‘Doing Surveys Online’ (Sage) and has published her work in journals such as Public Opinion Quarterly, Survey Research Methods, BMS and JOS. She worked on international projects such as Smart Survey Implementation (SSI, Eurostat), Generations and Gender Program, Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe and worked with panels such as the LISS and CentER Panel (Centerdata).
Shopie Woodward
Sophie Woodward is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, the Vice Director of the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) and the Co-Director of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives. She carries out research into everyday forms of material culture in the home, such as clothing and unused objects ‘dormant things’, and has a particular interest in creative methods and material methods.