Stefano Sbalchiero
Senior Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Padova (Italy)
stefano.sbalchiero@unipd.it
Stefano Sbalchiero (PhD in Sociology, 2010) is a researcher (RtdB) and Assistant Professor at the University of Padova where he teaches “Social research methods” with special emphasis on quantitative analysis. He was visiting fellow at Boston University, MA, USA (2023) and at Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Methodology, Kraków, Poland (2018) where he focused on quantitative methods, text mining approaches and topic modelling. He has been involved in numerous projects investigating, among others, scientists’ mobility, youth and spirituality, science and spirituality, history of sociology, and policy analysis. Currently he is a member of several national and international scientific research initiatives and groups. His work appeared in peer-reviewed leading academic journals, including Quality and Quantity, Religions, International Migration, Policy & Society), and was presented during national and international conferences (American Sociological Association (ASA), Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR), International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP), International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT)), to name a few.
Areas of Interests: social research methods; text mining approaches; religion and spirituality; science and spirituality; interreligious dialogue.
Representative Publications
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Sbalchiero, Stefano. 2018. “Finding topics: a statistical model and a quali-quantitative method”, in Arjuna Tuzzi (ed), Tracing the Life Course of Ideas in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Springer: 189-210.
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Sbalchiero, Stefano, and Maciej Eder. 2020. “Topic modeling, long texts and best number of topics: some problems and solutions.” Quality & Quantity 54: 1095-1108.
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Sbalchiero, Stefano. 2021. Dal metodo all’esperienza. Fare ricerca con la sociologia comprendente. Padova University Press: Padova (Title trad: From method to experience. Doing research with interpretive sociology).
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Breskaya, Olga, Giuseppe Giordan, Martina Mignardi and Stefano Sbalchiero. 2023. “Attributes and Activities of Religious Communities in Italy: First Results from a City Congregations Study (CCS).” Religions 14 (6): 1-21.
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Sbalchiero, Stefano, and Giuseppe Giordan. 2023. “Raccontare le spiritualità. Forme di credenza oltre la religione.” Religioni e Società xxxviii (106): 69-78. (Title trad: Talking about Spirituality. Forms of Belief Beyond Religion).