FERDINANDO FORNARA
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February 2017
ACADEMIC POSITION AND CHARGES
- Associate Professor in Social Psychology at the Department of Education, Psychology, Philosophy of the University of Cagliari (Italy)
- PhD in Social Psychology (Sapienza University of Rome), MSc in Environmental Psychology (University of Surrey, UK), 5-year Degree in Psychology (Sapienza University of Rome)
- Lecturer in Environmental and Architectural Psychology, and Group Psychology
- Formerly also lecturer of Social Psychology, Social Psychology of Health, Community Psychology, and Statistical Software for Data Analysis in Psychology
- Representative of the International Exchange Programs for students and lecturers of the degree courses in Psychology of the University of Cagliari
- Tutored and co-tutored about 200 First-degree and Master Dissertations in Social and Environmental Psychology
- Principal Supervisor of five PhD dissertations of the PhD Courses in Environmental Psychology and Social Psychology of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”
- Co-tutor of PhD and Master students at the Centre of Transport and Society of the UWE (University of West England, Bristol, UK) and of the Faculty of Exact Sciences and Technology of the National University of Tucuman (Argentina)
QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”
- Master of Science in Environmental Psychology at the University of Surrey (UK)
- 5-year Degree in Psychology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”
PARTICIPATION TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
- Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology - Section of Environmental Psychology (IF 2015 = 2.463, 5-year IF = 2.885)
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Environmental Psychology (IF 2015 = 2.463, 5-year IF = 4.147)
- Member of the Editorial Committee of the Bulletin of People-environment Studies
- Member of the scientific associations IAPS (International Association for People-environment Studies), EASP (European Association of Social Psychology), SPSP (Society for Personality and Social Psychology), EHPS (European Health Psychology Society)
- Representative of CIRPA (the Italian Inter-University Research Center on Environmental Psychology) at the University of Cagliari
- Referee for ISI journals (such as Journal of Environmental Psychology, Environment and Behavior, Environment and Planning B, Evaluation and Program Planning, AMBIO – A Journal of the Human Environment) and journals indexed in Scopus (Psyecology)
- Referee for chapters of edited books in English and abstracts of international conferences
- Referee for international research projects, funded by public and private companies, on healthcare environments, elderly environments, and ecological behaviours.
- Mentor at the Young Researcher Workshops of the IAPS (International Association for People-environment Studies) Conferences held in Rome (2008), Leipzig (2010), Glasgow (2012), Timisoara (2014), and Lund (2016)
- Vice-Director of the 3rd Edition of the Summer School in Theories in Environmental Psychology (STEP3), Alghero, Italy, 29th June - 4th July 2015
- Member of the Scientific Committee of: 24th (Lund, 2016) and 20th (Rome, 2008) Conference of the International Association of People-environment Studies – IAPS; International Symposium “Sustainable Environments in a Changing Global Context” (A Coruña, 2013); International Conference “Applied psychology for a sustainable community” (Brasov, 2016)
- Member of the Organizing Committee of: 9th National Conference of the Social Psychology Section of the AIP - Italian Association of Psychology (Cagliari, 2009); 2nd National Meeting on Environmental Psychology (Rome, 2002)
- Held scientific seminars on Environmental Psychology topics in the Universities of Oviedo and Salamanca (Spain), Lund (Sweden), University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) of Lisbon (Portugal), Okan University of Istanbul (Turkey), and Bristol (UWE, University of West England).
- Visiting Professor in the Nanterre University of Paris (France), February-March 2015
PARTICIPATION TO RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Representative of the University of Cagliari for the EU-funded Horizon 2020 Project “ACCOMPLISSH - Accelerate CO-creation by setting up a Multi-actor Platform for Impact from Social Sciences and Humanities”
- Contributor to various EU-funded research projects as member of the CIRPA (the Italian Inter-University Research Center in Environmental Psychology)
- Coordinator of a Research Unit for a 2-year Project (2010-2012), funded by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, on attitudes towards renewable energies at the household level
- Coordinator of two research projects, funded by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, on the psycho-social predictors of pro-environmental behaviours
- Contributor to various research projects funded at national level (National Ministry of University and Research, and various universities)
PRIZES AND AWARDS
- Prizes from the Autonomous Region of Sardinia in the 2012 and the 2014 for the coordination of a Research Unit involved in National Research Projects which resulted eligible, but not funded
- Special fund in the 2009 (for “young researchers”) from the University of Cagliari for a research project on perceived quality of healthcare environments
- AIP-Ordine degli Psicologi Prize 2003 for the best applied PhD dissertation in psychological disciplines
MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Perceived quality of healthcare environments
- Attitudes toward residential settings in the elderly
- Urban and design sustainability
- Influence of norms and values on pro-environmental behaviours
- Place attachment and identity
- Restorative urban places
- Psychometric tools measuring lay evaluation of the environmental experience
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