Andrey Felipe Sgorla, Italian-Brazilian, is an Assistant Professor of Didactics and Methodologies for Intercultural Education 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, situated within the debate on neo-artisanal economies, examined the transformations of work and artisanal entrepreneurship in the craft beer market through ethnographic studies in Brazil, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. His research offers a broader reflection on emerging forms of work and contemporary careers that develop beyond traditional models, highlighting the search for meaningful trajectories and innovative ways of experiencing work in post-industrial societies.
Currently, their research interests, with particular attention to contexts of craft and creative work, are articulated around three main areas, framed by a critical analysis of sociotechnical mediations, including digitalisation and artificial intelligence, understood as epistemic affordances that reconfigure learning, work, and knowledge production:
- Hybrid learning ecologies, work, professional education, and entrepreneurship, conceptualising learning as a situated, relational, and distributed process shaped by life-course transitions, work practices, and professional and entrepreneurial decision-making processes.
- Generative guidance, professional development, and decision-making, focusing on meaning-making, professional identities, agency, and resilience in non-linear trajectories.
- Intercultural learning and epistemic justice, analysing the recognition and legitimation of biographical, narrative and situated forms of knowledge, epistemic agency, and institutional responsibility for promoting participation and equity in plural educational and professional contexts.
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) and in Law, Economics, and Commerce at the University of Vic (Spain).
His research has resulted in two doctoral theses, books, book chapters, and articles published in leading journals of pedagogy, anthropology, and sociology. He has also presented at international conferences in 15 countries and collaborated with research groups worldwide.