Andrey Felipe Sgorla, Italian-Brazilian, is an Assistant Professor of Didactics and Educational Research in the Department of Social, Political, and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Siena. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences (Brazil) and a PhD in Learning and Innovation in Social and Work Contexts (Italy).
His doctoral theses examined transformations in work through ethnographic studies of the craft beer sector in Brazil, Italy, Spain, and Portugal — exploring how workers construct meaningful professional trajectories outside conventional institutional pathways, as socially situated processes of identity formation, learning, and recognition, grounded in practices, communities, and narratives.
In light of this empirical trajectory, his research focuses on how professional futures become possible under conditions of radical uncertainty, characterised by unpredictable trajectories shaped by technological transformations—particularly artificial intelligence—and increasing fragility, examining the conditions under which such futures become imaginable, sustainable, and socially recognised. On this basis, the research is structured around three interconnected lines:
(01) Work, radical uncertainty, and vocational imagination explores how workers construct and renew expectations of professional futures under conditions of radical uncertainty, with particular attention to transformations driven by artificial intelligence and the digitalisation of work. Within this framework, career guidance is reconceptualised as a permanent socio-educational infrastructure supporting these processes across the entire life course.
(2) Generative guidance, professional identity, and the pedagogy of transitions develop pedagogical frameworks for career guidance capable of supporting non-linear professional trajectories in contexts of transformation. Within this framework, it advances a generative approach centered on the narrative and relational construction of professional identity, conceiving guidance as a practice of co-constructing professional futures.
(3) Epistemic justice, biographical recognition, and inclusive transitions examines the social and institutional conditions that structure unequal access to imaginable and socially recognised professional futures. It introduces the concept of fictional displacement to analyse situations in which coherent trajectories fail to achieve recognition within professional fields, and contributes to the development of an intercultural guidance model grounded in biographical recognition, career equity, and institutional responsibility.
His experience includes postdoctoral fellowships at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, in collaboration with the National Center for Future Biodiversity (NBFC), and at the University of Gastronomic Sciences. He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (Portugal), and at Sheffield Hallam University (UK), as well as a visiting professor in the doctoral programs in Sociology at the Federal University of Pelotas (Brazil), in Law, Economics, and Commerce at the University of Vic (Spain) and in Education at the University of Caxias do Sul (Brazil).