Maria Dodaro is a Researcher in Economic and Labour Sociology at the University of Padua and in 2019 graduated with a double PhD in Urban Studies from the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, and Sociology from the University of Barcelona, Spain. Her research interests include the economic and socio-institutional transformations affecting urban policies and governance and local welfare systems, with a focus on the multi-scalar dynamics inherent in such changes, social innovation processes, individualisation, inequalities and social actor agency.