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Francesco Vittori is a post-doc research fellow at the Department of Human Sciences in Pedagogy, Theories of Education and Social Education (SSD M-PED/01). His research spans and intertwines critical and social pedagogy, gender and intersectional studies, education for ecological citizenship, sustainable consumption and production practices, agroecology as a transformative paradigm, and digital education. Recent publications: Agroecopedagogia (FrancoAngeli, 2025) and Sister with A. De Vita (Loescher, 2025). Scientific articles in the Journal of Inclusive Methodology and Technology in Learning and Teaching (2024), Environmental Innovation and Societal Transition (2024), Scuola Democratica (2024), Formazione & Insegnamento (2023), Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (2023), and Journal of Rural Studies (2023).
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He began his academic journey by earning a PhD in Human Capital Formation and Labour Market Relations at the University of Bergamo (Department of Human and Social Sciences) with the research project "Feeding Cities: The Potential of Sustainable Agriculture for Economic and Social Development." His doctoral thesis connects the contribution of social movement theory and alternative agri-food networks, comparing multi-level dynamics around agriculture in Europe (Northern Italy) and Latin America (Southern Brazil) to explore bottom-up practices for building sustainable citizenship.
Since 2025, he has been coordinating the research project "Food, Health, and Responsible Consumption" in collaboration with Prof. Oscar José Rover of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, the director of the Laboratory for Family Agriculture Commercialisation, which is funded through the 2024 MoCoSvi Call – Mobility for International Development Cooperation.
Since 2024, as a research fellow, he has been involved in the HORIZON2020 project "Skills4Justice," under the scientific supervision of Prof. Paola Dusi.
Since 2020, he has coordinated the research project "Formal Education within the Landless Workers' Movement: Between Agrarian Reform, Agroecology, and Gender Issues" with Profs. Antonia De Vita, Aldo Marchetti, Paolo Vittoria, the MST-Italy committee, and Brazilian representatives of the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST), who participated in co-designing the project.
From 2019 to 2023, as a research fellow, he collaborated on and supported the coordination of the research project "Female Bullying at Schools: An Intersectional Mixed-Methods Investigation," supervised and coordinated by Prof. Antonia De Vita (University of Verona) and Giuseppe Burgio (University of Enna "Kore").
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