Research groups

LUMSA finances research within projects of relevant scientific interest responding to the strategic scientific areas of the University.

Department of Law, Economics, Politics and Modern languages (Rome) [1]

• The application of the Shari'a in resolving disputes between Muslims in the West (Coordinator Prof. Angelo Rinella)
• Integrated protection of fundamental rights in the face of global challenges: evolutionary trends and reconstructive challenges (Coordinator Prof. Monica Lugato)
• Big data and cognitive insights for effective administrative law (Coordinator Prof. Nicoletta Rangone)
• Relations, behavior, cooperation in finance, in the real economy, in society (Coordinator Prof. Giovanni Ferri)
• The micro story: a bridge between past and future (Coordinator Prof. Manuela Aviva Garribba)
• COVID 19: justice and the question of the distribution of scarce health resources (Coordinator Prof. Laura Palazzani)
• Fragility, adaptation, neoteny: social work prospects at the time of the coronavirus (Coordinator Prof. Folco Cimagalli)
• The social impact of sharing economy. Food recovery models (Coordinator Prof. Laura Michelini)
• A political laboratory: Rome, the Holy See and Italy (1943-1944) (Coordinator Prof. Andrea Ciampani)
• Artificial intelligence and doctor / patient relationship between ethics and law (Coordinator Prof. Laura Palazzani)
• Giuseppe Dalla Torre's contribution to canonical and ecclesiastical science (Coordinator Prof. Paola Cavana)

Department of Law (Palermo) [1]

• Effectiveness of judicial protection and civil relations (Coordinator Prof. Giampaolo Frezza)
• The constitutional right to appeal to the Supreme Court and the limitations to the appeal of the plea bargaining sentence (Coordinator Prof.Antonino Pulvirenti)
• New prospects for transfer pricing (Coordinator Prof. Marco Cedro)
• Participatory social impact assessment (V.I.S.PA). For a civil and maieutic method (Coordinator Prof. Giuseppe Notarstefano)
• Peace and happiness Psychodynamics of happy existence: eco-psychodynamics of existential learning (Coordinator Prof. Giuseppe Mannino)
• The forms of the relationship organize the forms of thought. Causative interactions of dynamic-clinical and socio-economic psychology in the (re) generation of the social and self individual (Coordinator Prof. Giuseppe Mannino)
• The social impact of business activity between evaluation and reporting. An approach (Coordinator Prof. Sergio Paternostro)
• Anthropology and ethics of childhood. The child as a subject of action and responsibility (Coordinator Prof. Calogero Caltagirone)
• The legal status of the foreigner in the Italian-European legal system (Coordinator Prof. Gabriele Carapezza Figlia)
• The techno-human condition in an era of transformations (Coordinator Prof. Calogero Caltagirone)
• Strategy for a sustainable and responsible world (Coordinatore Prof. Anna Minà)
• The rule of law: profiles of domestic, international and European Union law (Coordinator Prof. Marco Evola)
• Societas delinquere potest. Implementation of model 231 (Coordinator Prof. Angelo Mangione)
• The effects of the obligation to draft the non-financial declaration on reporting practices and social responsibility initiatives of Italian companies (Coordinator Prof. Sergio Paternostro)

Department of  Social Sciences - Communication, Education and Psychology (Rome) [1]

• Memory contagion: effect of social sharing in the modulation of memories (Coordinator Prof. Marco Costanzi)
• Smartphone Addiction, family functioning, and value structure in a group of young adults: what relationship? (Coordinator Prof. Marco Cacioppo)
• Humanities: languages, cultures, philosophies, societies (Coordinator Prof. Stefano Biancu)
• Minority textuality in the last centuries of the Middle Ages (Coordinator Prof. Marco Bartoli)
• Culture and pietas in the monasteries of the Clarian Observance in Umbria between the 15th and 16th centuries (Coordinator Prof. Patrizia Bertini Malgarini)
• Job insecurity and psychological consequences: the role of personal resources (Coordinator Prof. Antonino Callea)
• Evaluation and psychological intervention in favor of subjects with cardiological disease at the Villa Giomi nursing home in Rome (Coordinator Prof. Vincenzo Caretti)
• Protagonism and consciousness of the female in the new millennium. The narrative of gender-based violence in a time without utopias (Coordinator Prof. Consuelo Corradi)
• Writing to argue: a global citizenship education path for teachers in initial training (Coordinator Prof. Valeria Damiani)
• Emotional regulation, motivation, ethical leadership and teamwork: what implications for teachers' well-being at school? (Coordinator Prof. Simona De Stasio)
• Youth languages: hate speech and hate words (Coordinator Prof. Donatella Pacelli)
• "Skills that generate early childhood skills". The school-family alliance in shared paths of promotion of basic skills in the development of children from 0 to 6 years (Coordinator Prof. Nicoletta Rosati)
• Effects of regenerative environments in the treatment of traumatic memories: an experimental approach in the research paradigm of CeReBRO (Coordinator Prof. Massimiliano Scopelliti)
• The Montessori Atlas: construction of a dictionary and photographic repertoire functional to a historical-pedagogical reconsideration of the relevance of the pedagogy of Maria Montessori (Coordinator Prof. Paola Trabalzini)
• Parafoveal processing during reading: The influence of semantics components (Coordinatore Prof. Lisa Arduino)
• Critical success factors for the innovation of the business model of agri-food SMEs in Lazio (Coordinator Prof. Costanza Nosi)
• The dimensions of well-being at school: ecological and individual risk and protection factors (Coordinator Prof. Simona De Stasio)
• Innovations in public service: building strategies through Stakeholders Engagement (Coordinator Prof. Alessandro Giosi)
• Books for children online between school and civic activism (Coordinator Prof. Vincenzo Schirripa) 
• The relationship between brain connectivity and personality traits in the different stages of Alzheimer's disease: personality and cognitive reserve as protective factors or predictors of frailty (Coordinator Prof. Silvia Primativo)
• The digital text in literature teaching: resources, recent scientific acquisitions, e-learning (Coordinator Prof. Caterina Verbaro)
• Gamification for education: impact assessment models of digital applications on the knowledge and behavior of primary school children (Coordinator Prof. Paula Benevene)
• The role of compassion at work in helping professions (Coordinator Prof. Caterina Fiorilli)
• Parenting in the life cycle: aspects of risk and protection (Coordinator Prof. Simona De Stasio)
• Video - based training strategies and teacher training. Effects on observation skills, sense of effectiveness, perception of training activities (Coordinator Prof. Maurizio Gentile)
• Montessori places and biographies. Montessori geographies and magisterium after World War II in Italy and Europe (Coordinator Prof. Paola Trabalzini)
• Subjective experience and personal experience of adolescents and young adults (Coordinator Prof. Lucia Sideli)
• Dual teaching and extended classroom: what challenges and opportunities for Faculty Development? (Coordinator Prof. Maria Cinque)

More information in Italian [2] is available for some of the research groups listed above.