The world of scientific research and education is crucial to exploring ways of inclusion and implementing it. Scientific research deepens understanding, education broadens views, but most importantly, academic institutions can act as an essential vehicles for societal transformation needed for ataining inclusive futures.
To this end, Inclusive Urban Futures is honoured to launch the 2023 series with Prof. Tommaso Vitale, the Dean of the Paris Institute of Political Studies 'Sciences Po' Urban School. A cherished professor and a leading international sociologist Dean Vitale dedicated his scientific career to examining disparate dimensions of exclusion to enable us moving toward inclusion. But most importantly, Dean Vitale is someone who 'walks the scientific talk' by ensuring that students from all walks of life and from all corners of the world have the opportunity to study at Sciences Po, one of the most prestigious educational establishments in France that educated most of the French ministers and presidents since the 1950's. Dean Vitale's is inclusion in action, bringing ideas from scientific conceptualisations to and with Urban School students right where they can make a fundamental societal change – around the tables where the decisions are made.
More about Prof. Tommaso Vitale:
Prof. Tommaso Vitale is the Dean of The Paris Institute of Political Studies Sciences Po Urban School, where he teaches 'Urban Sociology' and 'Urban Policy Analysis'. In addition, he is a researcher at Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée, where he co-coordinates with V. Guiraudon the research program "Cities, borders and (im)mobility" and the research program' Cities are back in town'. He is also member of the scientific board of Délégation Interministérielle à la Lutte Contre le Racisme, l'Antisémitisme et la Haine anti-LGBT (DILCRAH) and CEE representative in the Board of Institut Convergences Migrations. He is co-editor of the peer-review Journal PArtecipazione e COnflitto, The Open Journal of Socio-political Studies.
Having been trained within a Weberian theoretical framework that assigns cities a generative role in structuring social, political and economic interactions, his research looks at community action not as a form of solidarity but as a form of collective action not requiring a common identity.
Prof. Tommaso Vitale: https://www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etudes-europeennes/en/researcher/tommaso-vitale.html
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tovitale/?originalSubdomain=fr
More about Paris Institute of Political Studies – Sciences Po and its Urban School
Established in 1872, the Paris Institute of Political Studies (French: Institut d'études politiques de Paris, also known as Sciences Po ) is a research university, with the status of grande école and grand établissement, located in Paris, France, with additional campuses around France. Sciences Po offers courses and conducts research in political science, history, economics, law and sociology. Sciences Po Urban School is dedicated to studying contemporary trends and challenges in the built environment worldwide and exploring future solutions through applying cutting-edge social and political science.
Discover Sciences Po Urban School: https://www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-urbaine/en.html
Find our Host and Executive Producer, and adjunct professor at Sciences Po Dr Orna Rosenfeld at: https://www.ornarosenfeld.com/