Valentina is an economic sociologist who is interested in socio-political ideas of elites shaping the interpretative framework of citizens´ understanding of the economy. Currently, she is a post-doc at the Department of Economic Sociology at the University of Vienna. Her research investigates the legitimization discourse of political-economic change during times of crisis.
Prior to this, Valentina completed her PhD at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. Her thesis investigated the rise of economic nationalist ideas in political elite's discourse. For this, she was awarded the Adam Smith Fellowship for research on political economy by the George Mason University, US, funding from the Cambridge Political Economy Trust Fund, and a grant from Funds for Graduate Women.
Before coming to Cambridge, she undertook her undergraduate degree in sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, a Master´s degree in Economic Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a MPhil degree in Sociology at the University of Cambridge.
