Francesco V. Email and Phone Number

Research assistant in the ResponsiveGov project. Main tasks include: supporting the research team through the collection and processing of the research data; prepare and undertaking data analysis and tests using quantitative techniques and approaches agreed with the Principal Investigator; documenting the research findings, assessing the outcomes and options emerging from the research and contributing as a junior partner to the writing and publication of short research briefs, blog posts and research papers; responsible for the maintenance and version control of the data collected; handling external communications in relation to the project: email and Twitter account monitoring, updating project website; to identify and understand work requirements prioritising tasks and responsibilities within an agreed timeframe agreed with the Principal Investigator; responsible for the supervision of remote casual-hours coders; responsible for data reliability; co-responsible for casual coders recruitment and training.

PhD program in Comparative and EU Politics. Scholarship provided by the Pegaso Project of Regione Toscana (first classified).

Visiting period.

Project leader for Votematchitalia.eu, the Italian National Election Study (ITANES) voting match application for the 2014 European elections.Tasks: website design; coordination of the gathering and codification of Italian party manifestos; updating of the content management system for the voting advice application.

Research collaborator for the Italian Law Making Archive (Coordinators of the project: Prof. Marco Giuliani and Prof. Francesco Zucchini.).Tasks: Gathering of data on the Italian legislative process through different web scraping techniques, codification, and data analysis.