WPS – Workplace Studies Research

We are a group of sociologists and linguists interested in exploring notions of collaboration within team-work activities of naturally occurring interaction. We specialise in carrying out semi-naturalistic experiments to examine verbal and non-verbal behaviour , as well as the use of technology in a range of different work settings: music, MotoGP, application technologies.

See more details about our research group on https://sites.unimi.it/workplacestudies/

Read about our current projects: TEAMWORK IN COLLOCATED INTERACTION UNISING GOOGLE-DOCS;

Giampietro Gobo is a Professor of Methodology of Social Research and Evaluation Methods.

Expertise: teamwork, language & interaction, discursive practices, distributed cognition, situated action, organisation studies, ethnography, ethnopragmatics, ethnomethodology, cognitive sociology.

Contact: giampietro.gobo@unimi.it

Dr. Bianca Cepollaro is a Post-Doc Research Fellow interested in pragmatics, philosophy of language, metaethics and experimental philosophy.

Expertise: expressive language; evaluative language; presupposition; metaethics.

Contact: biancamaria.cepollaro@unimi.it

Dr. Valentina Marcheselli is a Post-Doc Research Fellow part of the “Culture and Cognition at Work” research project, she focuses on the social dynamics of interaction and coordination in music performance.

Expertise: laboratory studies, semi-naturalistic experiments, ethnography, astrobiology, science and technology studies.

Contact: valentina.marcheselli@gmail.com

Alessandro Zucchi is a Professor of Philosophy of Language. His research area is the formal semantics of natural languages. He has done research work on aspect, tense, fiction, quantificaton, and sign languages.

Expertise: pragmatics, semantics, philosophy and theory of language.

Contact: alessandro.zucchi@unimi.it