Carmela Guarascio is Research Fellow in Economic Sociology and Social policy at the University of Macerata. She received her Ph.D. in “Knowledge and innovation for development” at University of Calabria in 2016, with a thesis on solidarity economy and regulation in Italy and France.

She focuses her research interests in solidarity economy, labour market research and economic development, with a focus on inequalities, cooperation and innovation.

She was a research fellow at the University of Teramo and at the University of Palermo. She was a visiting fellow at Federal University of Bahia, Apes in Lille, and at CNAM in Paris.

She was a lecturer in “Economics and social innovation” at University of Calabria.

She is member of Sisec “Società italiana di sociologia economica” committee.