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Mattia Vacchiano
PhD, University of Geneva
ABOUT
I am a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Geneva. I hold a PhD in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. I was SNSF Senior Research at the University of Lausanne (2018-2021) and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Buenos Aires (2016). My research focuses on labor markets, digitalization, social networks and the life course, especially among young people. I am currently leading the project The Empty Office, an international and interdisciplinary project analyzing the effects of remote working on peoples’ lives
My research has been published in Advances in Life Course Research, Social Indicators Research, Computers in Human Behavior, European Sociological Review, PLOS ONE, Community, Work & Family, and other peer-review international journals.
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RESEARCH
Selected publications
- Vacchiano, M., Hollstein, B., Settersten, R., & Spini, D. (2024) Networked Lives: Probing the Influence of Social Networks on the Life course. Advances in Life Course Research
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- Vacchiano, M., Cullati, S. & Cianferoni, N. (forthcoming 2027). Understanding the impact of remote working. Social Indicators Research
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Vacchiano, M. (forthcoming 2026). Human after all: a new guide to social capital.
Under contract for Palgrave Macmillan
- Spini, D, Li, Y, Vacchiano, M & Valente, R (forthcoming 2026). Geosocial activity spaces and life course transitions in Settersten, Stauber & Waltheret al (eds) Handobook of Life Course Transitions.
- Vacchiano, M., De Bel, V. & E. Widmer (2025). Being Your Own Boss: Network Determinants of Young People's Orientations towards Self-Employment. Social Indicators Research
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- Vacchiano, M, Fernandez, G, & Schmutz, R. (2024) What’s Going on With Teleworking? A Scoping review on Its Effects on Wellbeing. PLoS ONE
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- Vacchiano, M., Fernandez, G., Widmer, E., Arntz, M., Azzi, M., Bulti, A., Cianferoni, N., Cullati, S., Junte, S., Massoudi, K., Molina, O., Ramirez, A. & Steinmetz, S. (2024). The Empty Office: protocol for sequential mixed-method study on the impact of telework activities on social relations and well-being. BMJ Open
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- Vacchiano, M. & Valente, R. (2023). Going out before the COVID-19 pandemic protected psychological health during the first lockdown: a model based on social capital theory, Leisure Studies
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- Spini, D. & Vacchiano, M. (2023). Synthesis: Vulnerability in Context. In: Spini, D., Widmer, E. (eds) Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https:// doi.org/10.1007/978-981 - 19-4567-0 13
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- Vacchiano, M., Politi, E., & Lüders, A. (2023). The COVID-19 pandemic as an existential threat: evidence on young people’s psychological vulnerability using a Multifaceted Threat Scale, PLoS ONE
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- Martì, J, Vacchiano, M. & Molina, O. (2022). Concepts and Methodologies in SNA: Implications for Employment Relations Research. In Brandl, B., Larsson, B., Lehr, A., & Molina, O. (eds.). Employment Relations as Networks: Methods and Theory (1st edn.). Routledge.
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- Vacchiano, M., Lazega, E., & Spini, D. (2022). Multilevel Networks and Status Attainment. Advances in Life Course Research.
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- Vacchiano, M., (2022). How the First COVID-19 Lockdown Worsened Younger Generations’ Mental Health: Insights from Network Theory. Sociological Research Online.
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- Vacchiano, M., & Valente, R. (2021) Did the Screens Win? An Autoregressive Model Linking Leisure, Relatedness and Mental Health. Computers in Human Behavior.
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- Vacchiano, M., & Spini, D (2021). Networked Lives. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 1–17.
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- Vacchiano, M. (2021). Nine Mechanisms of Job-Searching and Job-Findings Through Contacts Among Young Adults, Sociological Research Online.
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- Vacchiano, M., & Bolano, D. (2020) Online and Offline Leisure, Relatedness and Psychological Distress: A Study of Young People in Switzerland. Leisure Studies.
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- Valente, R., & Vacchiano, M. (2020). Determinants of Fear of Crime in Argentina and Brazil: A Cross-national Comparison of Non-Criminal Factors Affecting People’s Unsafety. Social Indicators Research.
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- Vacchiano, M., & Spini, D. (2020). Networked Lives. LIVES Working Paper, doi: 10.12682 / LIVES. 2296 - 1658.2020.84
- Verd, JM, Barranco, O., González Heras, A., Martí Olivé, J., Muntanyola-Saura, D., Rodríguez, J. & Vacchiano, M, Yepes-Cayuela, L. (2020). ‘La acumulación y uso de capital social en los jóvenes con trayectorias laborales de inestabilidad’.
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- Muntanyola-Saura, D., Barranco, O., & Vacchiano, M. (2019). Inequality Beyond Networking: Personal Networks and Mobilization of Contacts by Young Job Seekers in Barcelona. Revista Española de Sociología, 28 (2), 207-226.
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- Vacchiano, M., Yepes-Cayuela, L., & Martí, J. (2019): The Family as (One- or Two-Step) Social Capital: Mechanisms of Support During Labor Market Transitions, Community, Work & Family.
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- Vacchiano, M., & Merino, J. (2018). Introducción a la Lógica Multinivel: un Análisis Longitudinal con SPSS y R. Incasi Working Papes, No. 2.
- Vacchiano, M., Martí, J., Yepes, L., & Verd, J.M. (2018). Personal Networks in Job Insertion Among Young Adults in Times of Crisis: An Analysis in Barcelona. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 161, 121-140.
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- Vacchiano, M., & Mejia Reyes, C. (2017). Reflexiones Sobre los Juegos de Azar en la Sociedad Contemporanea: hacia una Biografía del Riesgo. Athenea Digital, 17(2), 79-94.
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- Vacchiano, M., (2017). Personal Networks in the Labor Market: Resources, Mechanisms and Inequalities Among Young People. PhD thesis. Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
- Verd, J.M., Yepes, L., & Vacchiano, M. (2016). Trayectorias Laborales y Capital Social en la Población Joven : Elementos Para Analizar la Precariedad Laboral Juvenil Más Allá de los Grandes Focos. Anuario IET de Trabajo y Relaciones Laborales, Vol. 3, 144-158.
PROJECTS
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The Empty Office |
Swiss Network for International Studies - The Empty Office: an international study on teleworking’, Host institution: University of Geneva. Partners: University of Lausanne, Aut. Univ de Barcelona, SECO, International Labour Organization (ILO)
- Principal Investigator. Responsibilities: elaboration of project’s theoretical framework, budget and research design; coordination of partnership; analysis of quantitative data; academic articles; attending academic conferences and meetings
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- Out of Control (OUTIP) | Analysing precarity and its effect on the psychological wellbeing of youth under and intersectional perspective
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The general objective of OUTIP is to study the impact of precariousness on the psychological well-being of Spanish youth, considering.
Lead Researcher: Prof. Lara Maestripieri, Autonomous University of Barcelona - Research Team Member. supervision of WP 2 on multilevel modelling; sponsoring visiting scholarship for a pre-doctoral students; analysis of qualitative and quantitative materials; academic articles; attending academic conferences and meetings
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- Meso-Level and Policy Mechanisms of Vulnerability | NCCR Lives
- Developing a multidimensional, dynamic and contextualized model of vulnerability’. Lead Researcher: Prof. Leen Vandecasteele and Prof. Jean-Michel Bonvin, Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Lausanne
- Research Team Member. Responsibilities: analysis of qualitative and quantitative materials; academic articles; attending academic conferences and meetings
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Metasanté 2 |
NCCR Lives, EPFL, Ville de Lausanne - A digital cohort to monitor city dwellers moving to a healthier living urban environment’. Lead Researcher: Prof. Bengt Kaiser, Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research
- Research Team Member. Responsibilities: elaboration of project’s theoretical framework and research design
- Netwir |DG Employment (UE)
- ‘Networked coordination of industrial relations’ Lead Researcher: Prof. Oscar Molina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
- Research Team Member. Responsibilities: elaboration of project’s theoretical framework and research design
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- Bridges | Programme Recercaixa (Spain) Ref: pz613501
- ‘The gender pay-gap as multidimensional phenomenon: Analysis on institutional, organizational and cultural barriers’. Lead Researcher: Prof. Pilar Carrasquer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
- Research Team Member. Responsibilities: dissemination, attending academic conferences and meetings
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Capsines | Ministry of Economy (Spain)
Ref: CSO2016- 77905 - ‘The accumulation and use of social capital among young people with unstable labor trajectories’. Lead Researcher: Prof. Joan Miquel Verd, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Research Team Member. Responsibilities: elaboration of project’s theoretical framework and research design; design, coordination and conduction of fieldwork.
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Redemas | Ministry of Economy (Spain)
Ref: CSO2012- 77905 - ‘Social networks as a mechanism of job insertion and social support among young people’. Lead Researcher: Prof. Joan Miquel Verd and Carlos Lozares Colina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Research Team Member. Responsibilities: fieldwork; analysis of qualitative and quantitative materials; academic articles; attending academic conferences and meetings
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TEACHING
- The Empty Office: An International Study of Teleworking, M.A. Level (30 hours), University of Geneva, Spring 2025
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- Analyses des réseaux sociaux [Social Network Analysis], M.A. Level (30 hours), University of Geneva, Spring 2025
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- Réseaux et capital sociale dans le monde de la jeunesse [Networks and Social Capital Among Youth], B.A. Level (30 hours), University of Geneva, Fall 2024
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- Analyses des réseaux sociaux [Social Network Analysis], M.A. Level (30 hours), University of Geneva, Spring 2024
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- Réseaux et capital sociale dans le monde de la jeunesse [Networks and Social Capital Among Youth], B.A. Level (30 hours), University of Geneva, Fall 2023
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- Lecturer in the course “Analyse de données d’enquête” [Analysis of survey data], M.A. Level (4 hours), University of Geneva, Fall 2023
- Analyses des réseaux sociaux [Social Network Analysis], M.A. Level (30 hours), University of Geneva, Spring 2023
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- Réseaux et capital sociale dans le monde de la jeunesse [Networks and Social Capital Among Youth], B.A. Level (30 hours), University of Geneva, Fall 2022
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- Analyses des réseaux sociaux [Social Network Analysis], M.A. Level (30 hours), University of Geneva, Spring 2022
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- Réseaux et capital sociale dans le monde de la jeunesse [Networks and Social Capital Among Youth], B.A. Level (30 hours), University of Geneva, Fall 2021
- Tutorial associated with the lecture Sociologie de la famille, [Sociology of Family], B.A. Level (30 hours), University of Geneva, Spring 2021
- Métodos cuantitativos, [Quantitative Methods], B.A Level (30 hours), Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spring 2016
- Tutorial associated with the lecture Métodos cualitativos, [Qualitative Methods], B.A. Level (30 hours), Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spring 2015
- Métodos cuantitativos, [Quantitative Methods], B.A Level (30 hours), Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spring 2015
- Fundamentos de Sociología, [Theoretical Foundations of Sociology], B.A. Level (40 hours), Autonomous University of Barcelona, Fall 2014
- Networked Lives with Dario Spini and Eric Widmer, VIU/LIVES Winter School, Venice International University, 7-11st March 2022.
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- Lecturer on quantitative methodologies in the workshop “Convention de divorce et inégalités de genre”, M.A. Level (30 hours), University of Geneva, Spring, 2022 and Fall 2022
- Lecturer on quantitative methodologies in the workshop “Parchemins”, M.A. Level (30 hours), University of Geneva, Fall 2021
- Multinivel Analysis in Spss and R with J. Merino, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 5st May 2016.