ROMANELLO Gloria

Contact details

gloria.romanello@univ-amu.fr

Researcher in the sociology of arts and culture at the Mesopolhis Laboratory, Aix-Marseille University.
Doctorate in Cultural and Heritage Management (International Honours) from the Universitat de Barcelona.
Qualified MDC Section 19 Sociology - 2023 Campaign

Functions

Postdoctoral researcher in the sociology of art, at the laboratory MESOPOLHIS, Aix-Marseille University.
Member of theObservatory of cultural audiences and practices MESRI / AMU

Member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Córima, Revista International en Investigación en Gestión Cultural ISSN 2448-7694 - Mexico.

Member ICOM España - Member of the International Committee IC-ETHICS

Reviewer in Umanistica Digitale - platinum open access journal of the Italian Association of Digital Humanities (AIUCD - Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale)

Member of the collective MAV - Women in the visual arts

Areas of research

  • Fields and subjects of research :

Sociology of culture and the arts, museology, sociology of organisations, research methodology, sociology of tourism and leisure, urban sociology, culture and heritage management, art sciences, art history.

 

  • Main themes :

Sociology of audiences and cultural practices, audience studies, preliminary studies, reception and evaluation studies, informal learning, international cultural policies, development of cultural audiences, new forms of mediation, cultural pedagogy, participatory museology, heritage definitions, marketing of culture and the arts, contemporary visual arts, urban art,

Museum Studies, Visitor Research, Audience Research, Cultural policies, Heritage Studies, Leisure Studies, Urban Studies.
  • Cross-cutting themes :

Epistemological issues, multi- and interdisciplinary approach (humanities and art sciences), qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, ethics of artificial intelligence, digital ethics, communication theories, psychosocial aspects of human behaviour, gender studies.

Qualitative Research, Human Behaviour Analysis, Gender Studies.

Productions

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS (selection)

 

 

Romanello, G. (2015) What is the purpose of audience research? The use of audience research tools in the management of museums and contemporary art centres in Spain and FranceICOFOM Study Series 43b/2015, ISSN: 2309-1290 ISBN: 978-92-9012-414-6 Accessible online

 

Mijailovic, S., Romanello, G. (2015) New trends, old problems? The case of the reception of the "courses" at the Villa Méditerranée in MarseilleICOFOM Study Series 43b/2015, ISSN: 2309-1290 ISBN: 978-92-9012-414-6 Accessible online

 

Romanello, G. (2013) What we know about our audiences: utopian or cynical behaviour?Museological Review - issue 17/2013, pp 62-77 ; Leicester, UK. ISSN 1354-5825.  Accessible online

 

Romanello, G. (2012) " Thank you for your collaboration! Some thoughts on how contemporary art institutions approach their audiencesMarges - nº15/2012, pp 58-68, Paris. ISBN : 978-2-84292-354-9. Accessible online

 

 

PUBLICATIONS OF CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (selection)

 

 

Romanello, G. (2021). Street art and cultural heritage: empowerment and legitimation of new cultural agents? University of ARTS Helsinki, Proceedings of the Colloquium "Social effects of arts" European Sociology Association - Research network Sociology of Art - ESA ARTS 2021.

 

Pecoraro, C., Romanello, G. (2019). The city museum: a case study about migrant eyes and memoriesCAMOC Museums of Cities Review, September 2019 Special Edition.

 

Romanello, G. (2016). "#iononmilasciofregare, #Iwontgetscrewedover " Cultural heritage:Time for street-art agents39th symposium "The predatory museum", ICOFOM Comité international pour la muséologie-International Committee for museology-Comité internacional para la museología, Milan (Italy), 3-9 July 2016

 

Romanello, G. (2014). Públicos culturales: una aproximación sociológica a partir de la perspectiva de la Visitors Research, IX Congreso Español de Sociología "Crisis y cambios, propuestas desde la sociología", FES - Federación Española de Sociología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid (Spain), 10-12 July 2013. Accessible online

 

 

THESIS

Public knowledge and the management of cultural institutions. The case of contemporary art institutions in France and Spain.

 

Written at theUniversity of Barcelona - Department of Sociology (Faculty of Economics), under the supervision of Arturo Rodríguez Morató (Professor of Sociology, Barcelona) and Matías Ignacio Zarlenga (Professor of Sociology of Culture and the Arts, Buenos Aires).

Multidisciplinary doctoral programme in Culture and heritage management with International Mention

Research theme: Cultural dynamics and models of social and government intervention

Winning thesis of the NATIONAL RESEARCH PRIZE in the Sociology of Culturecultural policy and management of culture and heritage - SGAE Fundación Autor