Roberta Iacovelli

Roberta Iacovelli is a PhD candidate at the University of Catania, Sicily. She has previously obtained a Master of Arts in Languages for International Communication at the University of Salento (Lecce); a Master by Research in Political and Institutional Communication at Università Sapienza (Rome); and a Master of Philosophy in Language and Communication Sciences at City, University of London (UK).She is a member of the Unit for Computational Humanities and Social Sciences (U-CHASS) at the University of Granada (Spain). She collaborates with “She Speaks Science”, a project promoting girls’ participation in the sciences.
Her research interest has always been in gender issues, focusing on female empowerment and gender discrimination in the professional fields.
She also works as a short-term contract teacher of English Language and Literature at the Italian Ministero dell’Istruzione e del Merito, and she is a teacher of Business English at higher vocational training institutions.
She strongly believes research is a specific form of resiliency.