Dr Anna Bagnoli's PhD study, based at the Centre for Family Research of the University of Cambridge (Cantab, 2001), investigated the process of identity construction in young people in relation to the experience of migration, looking at a sample of young Italians migrating to England and young English migrating to Italy. The project applied an innovative mix of qualitative methods to promote young people’s active participation. It was awarded an EC Marie Curie TMR Fellowship (1998-2000), an EP Ramon y Cajal Scholarship (2001-2002), and an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2002-2003).
Anna pursued her interests in methodological innovation during her time as a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds on the ESRC-funded National Centre for Research Methods Real Life Methods Node initiative (2005-2008).
During her time in the Department of Sociology at University of Cambridge she worked in the context of the ESRC Gender Equality Network (GeNet) research group with two subsequent projects on gender and science: PRAGES, an EC-funded coordination action involving 11 national partners (2008-2009), and Boys Girls and SET (2010), a study that was funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
In 2013-2014 Anna led two studies to pilot a range of creative arts-based methods: Wolfson’s Worlds, funded by Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Picturing Identities, funded by the Cambridge Italian Research Network.
Since 2011 she has been working as a Tutor at Wolfson College, where she also is Director of Studies for HSPS.
