Alessandro Fabbri (Bologna, 1982) obtained a first PhD in History at the University of Florence (2011) and a second PhD in Sociology and Social Research at the University of Bologna (2018). He is currently research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna. His topics of study are welfare, social policy, the relation between public institutions and non-profit organizations. He is author of several articles and book chapters (see his publications at this link: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/alessandro.fabbri26/publications).