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Paolo Cottone
Associate professor at the University of Padua, working across cultural psychology, communication, cooperation, intercultural processes, new media, and methods for situated research.
Research Coordinates
A live map of where the work is moving: signals become research coordinates, coordinates gather into frames, and topics connect papers, projects, teaching, and future tools.
Selected Writing
A curated view of articles, drafts, reading paths, and academic fragments worth making public.
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Writing Feed
Micro-posts and long posts in one stream: short fragments, larger assemblies, and the public edge of a modular writing practice.
Preparing the writing stream
Published micro-posts and long posts will appear here when the private editorial database is available.
Teaching Archive
Courses, doctoral seminars, master modules, advanced training, and compact methodological workshops across interculture, social psychology, and qualitative inquiry.
Intercultural Psychology
Multi- and intercultural perspectives, communication, mediation, and methodological tools for clinical, social and intercultural psychology.
MA Pluralismo culturale, mutamento sociale e migrazioniIntercultureProcessi psico-sociali, pluralismo culturale e inclusione
Theoretical and methodological tools for psychosocial analysis in contexts of cultural pluralism and inclusion.
BA Scienze dell'educazioneTechnology & LearningPsicologia generale e sociale
General and social psychology for education sciences, with attention to cognitive functioning and social processes.
Teaching archive
Qualitative inquiry in psychology
Doctoral-level introduction to qualitative inquiry, interpretive research design, and psychological research practices.
Doctoral seminar Master in Contemplative StudiesIntercultureMeditazione e posizionamenti interculturali
A module connecting contemplative practices, cultural positioning, and intercultural meaning-making.
Master module Master in Psychological Skills in Intercultural SettingsIntercultureCultural dimension in social processes
From cross-cultural studies to intercultural approaches in psychology and social processes.
Master module Master in Psychological Skills in Intercultural SettingsIntercultureIntercultural psychology as a methodological framework
Cultural mediation, artifacts, psychology, and methodological framing.
Master module Master in Creative Arts TherapiesSituated MethodsTra esperienza e significato
How qualitative research can document outcomes and meaning-making processes in Creative Arts Therapies.
Master module Corso di perfezionamento in Etnopsicologia clinicaIntercultureModelli interculturali: dalla segregazione all'interculturalità
Intercultural models for clinical ethnopsychology, from segregation to intercultural practice.
Advanced courseIntroduction to ATLAS.ti
Qualitative data analysis, coding, memo writing, conceptual networks, and research visualization.
Methods workshopIntroduction to IRaMuTeQ
Textual corpus preparation, similarity analysis, hierarchical classification, and critical interpretation of outputs.
Methods workshopIntercultural Psychology
Multi- and intercultural perspectives, communication, mediation, and methodological tools.
Degree course MA Pluralismo culturale, mutamento sociale e migrazioniIntercultureProcessi psico-sociali, pluralismo culturale e inclusione
Psychosocial analysis in contexts of cultural pluralism and inclusion.
Degree course BA Scienze dell'educazioneTechnology & LearningPsicologia generale e sociale
General and social psychology for education sciences.
Degree courseProject Archive
A compact archive of collaborative research: European projects, national programs, local units, and the recurring questions that connect technology, interculture, care, gender, and sustainability.
TIPPING+
Head of local unit in the project on positive tipping points toward clean-energy transitions in coal and carbon-intensive regions.
FIRB · 2012-2015SustainabilityACCESI
Local unit manager for the socio-constructivist analysis of Italian sustainable energy communities, connecting cultural psychology, public discourse, and social impact.
Daphne III · 2011-2013Care & GenderEMPoWER
Senior researcher in an international research-intervention project on gender-based violence, empowerment, psychodrama, identity positioning, and change processes.
Project archive
Death Education for Palliative Psychology
European project connecting death education, palliative psychology, training, and educational intervention.
ErasmusEMMA
Engaging media for mental health applications, social interfaces, navigation in virtual environments, and emotion-oriented interaction.
IST EU IST · 2001-2002Technology & LearningVEPSY
Telemedicine and portable virtual environments for clinical psychology, with work on usability and ergonomic validation.
ISTE-learning and cooperation in complex organizations
Scientific responsibility on cooperation in virtual space, negotiation of meaning, organizational learning, and interaction analysis.
PRINVirtual communities and technology-mediated collaboration
Research on virtual environments for training, mediated collaboration, navigation, and emergency behavior in simulated contexts.
PRINTeaching quality, ICT, and transversal skills
Senior researcher in a project on university teaching quality, ICT integration, and transversal skill development.
Research grantOne jail, two sexes and three genders
Research on gender binarism, transgender lives, and institutional contexts in Italian prisons.
Research grantComunicazione - Formazione Esperienziale
Senior research work on communication and experiential training as situated practice.
Research grantTeorie e pratiche della mediazione culturale
Responsibility for work on informal intercultural mediation, identity, contact zones, media analysis, and ethnographic methods.
Research grantModelli per la ricerca e la pratica interculturale
Local responsibility for intercultural learning, health education, linguistic-cultural mediation, and electronic communication environments.
Research grantWeb-Knowledge-Communities e Comunita di Pratiche
Research responsibility on web knowledge communities, communities of practice, and cooperation in intercultural contexts.
Research grantTIPPING+
Positive tipping points toward clean-energy transitions in carbon-intensive regions.
Horizon FIRB · 2012-2015SustainabilityACCESI
Socio-constructivist analysis of Italian sustainable energy communities.
FIRB Daphne III · 2011-2013Care & GenderEMPoWER
International research-intervention project on gender-based violence and empowerment.
DaphneSignal Log
Small public traces from work in motion: teaching workshops, research collaborations, grant preparation, conference materials, and public knowledge experiments.
Defining a research collaboration with BizArt
A research collaboration with BizArt is in its definition phase, opening a new line of work across intercultural, artistic, and situated research practices.
Starting a paper on adverse events through an intercultural lens
Writing is beginning with Lizeth Gabriela Barreno Caicedo on the provisional paper Conceptualisation, Appraisal, and Response to Adverse Events through an Intercultural Lens.
Presenting the Galway 2026 poster
The poster has been accepted and will be presented on 15 July at the 21st International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences.
Structuring the analysis of oncology patient narratives
The research on oncology patient narratives is entering a more structured analytical phase, using IRaMuTeQ outputs as lexical and exploratory support for the development of a future paper, while keeping qualitative interpretation grounded in the research context.
Reactivating a cotutelle agreement in Social Sciences
A cotutelle agreement within the PhD programme in Social Sciences is being reactivated and prepared for further institutional review. Details remain under discussion and will be clarified as the process advances.
Developing a reflection on knowledge ecology and agency in the age of AI
A theoretical line of work is taking shape around knowledge ecology and agency in the age of AI, focusing on human judgement, situated interpretation, epistemic responsibility, and the role of intelligent systems in research and knowledge production.
Awaiting evaluation for the PRIN 2026 agrivoltaics proposal
The PRIN proposal has been submitted and is now awaiting funding evaluation.
Awaiting evaluation for Sotto lo stesso cielo
The third mission project Sotto lo stesso cielo has been submitted and is now awaiting funding evaluation.
Closing an introductory ATLAS.ti workshop
Graduate students, doctoral researchers, and colleagues are working through the basic use of ATLAS.ti as a practical entry point into qualitative analysis.
Preparing a PRIN 2026 proposal on agrivoltaics
The proposal brought psychosocial and methodological work into dialogue with physics, engineering, and agronomy around agrivoltaic transitions.
Submitting Sotto lo stesso cielo
A third mission project was submitted on light pollution, human relations with the sky, and scientific, literary, philosophical, and socio-cultural ways of narrating nature.
Conducting a Creative Arts Therapies master lecture
The lecture focused on qualitative methods for evaluating therapeutic efficacy, change processes, and strengths and weaknesses in clinical practice.
Conducting a restricted IRaMuTeQ workshop
A small workshop for colleagues and researchers was conducted as a parallel methodological track to the ATLAS.ti introduction.
Preparing a Galway 2026 poster
The poster explores cultural causal beliefs, adversity, well-being, and mental healthcare among Ecuadorians living abroad.
Analysing oncology patient narratives
A collaboration with a physician from Vicenza hospital began turning clinical narratives and interviews into a qualitative analysis for a joint publication.
Contact
A direct line for academic correspondence, research conversations, teaching matters, and the slower work of making ideas easier to find.
FISPPA - University of Padua
Via Venezia 14
PSICO3 building, office 12, third floor
35131 Padova, Italy
Private Lab
A private workspace for draft signals, research tools, working notes, and small applications that support the public site without belonging to it.