Paolo CHIOCCHETTI, PhD, AFHEA 1. Personal data Nationality: Date and place of birth: Italian 13 April 1982, Trento (Italy) Address: Via della Ri 29 38123 Trento Sopramonte (TN) Italy E-mail: paolo.chiocchetti@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +39 349 5534616 2. Research interests Political parties, subcultures, cleavages, competition and systems; elections and electoral systems; contemporary European polities (in particular Italy, Germany, France and the United Kingdom); Comparative Politics; European Studies; International Relations; International Political Economy. 3. Education Oct. 2009 Mar. 2014 PhD in European Studies King s College London (United Kingdom) Thesis: "Filling the vacuum? The development of the partisan radical left in Germany, France and Italy, 1989-2013". Oct. 2004 Nov. 2006 Oct. 2001 Nov. 2004 MA in International Relations (with distinction) Università di Bologna (Italy) BA in Political Science and International Relations (with distinction) Università di Bologna (Italy) Other: Teaching & learning qualification PGCAPHE-EAP, King s College London (United Kingdom), Oct. 2012 Nov. 2013. Training for short-term election observer (STO), Scuola Superiore Sant Anna (Pisa, Italy), Jul. 2008. Socrates/Erasmus exchange programme, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (the Netherlands), Sep. 2003 Mar. 2004.
2 4. Academic experience A. TEACHING: Oct. 2010 Apr. 2013 Lecturer / Teaching Assistant King s College London (United Kingdom) Sessional lecturer of the MA course Globalisation and Social Movements in Europe (1 term) Teaching assistant of the BA course Introduction to Politics (4 terms) Guest lecturer on Political Parties and Party Systems (8 teaching hours) B. RESEARCH: Oct. 2008 Jan. 2009 Research assistant European University Institute (Firenze, Italy) Project From Generation to Generation (100 hours) qualitative interviews with entrepreneurial families C. ORGANISATION AND ADMINISTRATION: Elected member of the Academic Board, King s College London, Dec. 2012 Jun. 2013. Member of the organising team of four KCLEURESEARCH international postgraduate conferences, Department of European & International Studies, King s College London: 4 th : "What is local? Exploring cities in the global era", 14 Jun. 2013; 3 rd : "Movements, networks, protest", 15 Jun. 2012; 2 nd : "Developments in contemporary citizenship", 10 Jun. 2011; 1 st : "Reflections on the global economic crisis", 15 Jun. 2010. Co-convenor of the monthly departmental post-graduate seminar of the Department of European & International Studies, King s College London, Oct. 2009 Mar. 2012. Co-organiser of the international postgraduate conference Rethinking Europe after the financial crisis, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, King s College London, 8 Oct. 2010. Co-organiser of the departmental film series Italian cinema at work, King s College London, Spring term 2010.
3 5. Professional memberships Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) Member of the Political Studies Association (PSA) Member of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) Member of the working group on Members and Activists of Political Parties (MAPP) Member of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft (ÖGPW) 6. Grants and awards 2010 Winner of the King s Continuation Scholarship (King s College London) 28,000 pounds 7. Other work experience Feb. 2010 Jun. 2010 Jul. 2009 Sep. 2009 Oct. 2007 Jun. 2009 Jan. 2007 Aug. 2007 Sep. 2005 Dec. 2005 Editorial assistant (collaboration) Verso Books (London, United Kingdom) Political assistant (intern) Euregio Tirol-Südtirol-Trentino EU liaison office (Bruxelles, Belgium) Language teacher - English and French Speakeasy (Bologna, Italy); Centro Studi Fermi (Carpi, Italy); Direct English Italia (Modena, Italy) Multilingual customer service executive Verizon Business (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Diplomatic assistant (intern) Italian Embassy (Nairobi, Kenya)
4 8. Languages Italian: native speaker English: proficient (CEFR level C2) French: advanced (CEFR level C1) German: advanced (CEFR level C1) Spanish: intermediate (CEFR level B1) Certificates: Certificate of Proficiency in English, University of Cambridge, 2008 (CEFR level C2) Delf II, Alliance Française, 2005 (CEFR level B2) Zertifikat Deutsch, Goethe Institut, 2000 (CEFR level B1) 9. Other skills Research: Case study and comparative analysis; conceptual and historical analysis; qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Operational: Organisation of academic conferences and events; editorial work; writing of politicaleconomic analyses and diplomatic reports; liaising with institutional partners; translation (English -> Italian); electoral observation (STO). IT: MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), data analysis (SPSS), corpus linguistics (WordSmith), spatial analysis and mapping (QGIS), web design (Dreamweaver). 10. References Dr Jim Wolfreys (thesis supervisor) Senior Lecturer in French and European Politics, King's College London +44 (0)20 7848 2800 jim.wolfreys@kcl.ac.uk Dr Gonzalo Pozo-Martin (teaching supervisor) Lecturer in International Political Economy, King's College London +44 (0)20 7848 1260 gonzalo.pozo-martin@kcl.ac.uk
5 APPENDIX. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 1. Published: Chiocchetti, Paolo (2012) Nuove prospettive storiografiche di ricerca comparata e transnazionale, Archivio Trentino, 2: 249-267. Chiocchetti, Paolo (2011) Book review. Adeed Dawisha, Iraq: A Political History from Independence to Occupation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009), Journal of Global Analysis, 2.1: 97-99. 2. Submitted: The electoral and parliamentary weight of the Western European radical left, 1977-2013. Submitted to Electoral Studies, 26 May 2014. 3. In preparation: Peer-reviewed article US hegemony and global economic shifts, 1970-2012. Peer-reviewed article Goodbye welfare? The social roots of the crisis and resilience of Western European mass parties. Peer-reviewed article The societal influence of political parties: conceptualising and operationalising its quantitative measures. Book-length manuscript Filling the vacuum? The development of the partisan radical left in Germany, France and Italy, 1989-2013 (PhD thesis). 4. Non peer-reviewed: Chiocchetti, Paolo (2009) Il Gruppo Europeo di Cooperazione Territoriale (GECT): un nuovo strumento per la cooperazione territoriale [Report]. Trento: Provincia Autonoma di Trento. Available at: http://www.europa.provincia.tn.it/binary/pat_puntoeuropa/tirocini_presso_bruxelles/doss ier_paolo_chiocchetti.1254993957.pdf [accessed on 27 March 2014].