Roberta

Perna

Roberta holds a PhD in Political Sociology from the University of Turin (2017). Since 2024, she is Permanent researcher at CSIC. Priori to that, she was post-doctoral fellow 'Juan de la Cierva - Incorporación' at the Department of Applied Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid (2022-2023), Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the Centre for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Liège (CEDEM, 2021-2022), post-doctoral fellow ‘Juan de la Cierva-Formación’ at the Institute for Public Goods and Policies of CSIC (2019-2021) and researcher at the Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerca sull’Immigrazione (FIERI, 2018).

Her research focuses on the comparative analysis of social policies and migration policies, paying specific attention to the processes of health policy-making and implementation. Currently, she is working on transnational social protection and the nexus between the Welfare state and different mobility dynamics, as well as on how deservingness to public health care is reckoned at the level of policies, street-level practices and public attitutes.

During her academic trajectory, Roberta has collaborated with various international research centres specialised on the study of social policies, the Welfare state and migration. This activity has resulted in solo and co-authored publications in high-impact international journals, as well as in her participation in different research groups and networks. Among them, the ECPR Standing Group on Migration and Ethnicity, which she co-coordinate since January 2020, and the COST Action ISCH IS1103 ‘Adapting European health systems to diversity (ADAPT)’.