EDUCATION
July 1972
Diploma in Social Work, University of Parma
March 1979
Degree in Sociology, University of Urbino
1982-1987
Training in Family Therapy, Milan, Centro Milanese di Terapia della Famiglia (Boscolo-Cecchin)
March 1997
Ph.D. in Sociology, Theory and Methodology of Social Work, University of Trieste.
EXPERIENCE
Professional experience
1972 – 1991
Employed as a social worker in different sectors of public services in Parma.
1991
today Working, with a co-operative group (CESIP-Parma), in long-life learning education projects in different towns of Italy
Teaching experience
1975 – today
Teacher of Social Work at the University of Parma.
1988 – today
Direct involvement, since the beginning of Erasmus and then Socrates, in a network with Sweden, Germany, Norway, Great Britain and Greece, attending to staff mobility, curricula development and intensive programs.
1988 – today
invited by Italian and European universities, as guest professor to deliver seminars, lectures and conferences.
1992 – 1996
Teacher at the University of Turin.
1992 – 2001
Appointed as teacher and co-ordinator of professional social work area in the first experimental degree in Social Work, at the University of Trieste.
2002 – 2004
Teacher at the MA in Social Work at the University of Calabria (Cosenza).
2005 - 2008
Professor at the University of Calabria and President of the Degree in
2008- today
Professor at University of Milano Bicocca Social Work
European experience
In the context of Erasmus – Socrates project, since 1990 I participated in different teachers exchange in different countries: Spain, Sweeden, Norway, Great Britain, Greece , Germany, giving lectures at different level of education (BA, MA, international MA) and providing seminars for social workers and supervisors, participating in meeting with other colleagues, visiting social services. I’ve been involved in a project of curriculum development on “Multicultural Social Work”. and in many intensive programs (social work in Europe, social work and mental health, supervision).
From 2002 to 2005 I co-ordinated the TN EUSW- European Social Work- ommonalities and Differencies and since 2005 the TN “EUSW- European Platform for Worldwide Social Work” In November 2004, I was invited, like European expert, to be member of the evaluation commission for Phd thesis in Universitat de les Illes Balears . I organised the European Congress “Social Changes and Social Professions” that took place in Parma between the 15th and the 17th of March 2007.
Professional memberships
President of the EASSW (European Association of Schools of Social Work) and member of the Executive Committee as Regional Vice-President of IASSW (International Association of Schools of Social Work) Secretary of AIDOSS ( Italian Association of Teachers in Social Work ) Member of the scientific committees in the following journals: “Lavoro Sociale”, “Rassegna di Servizio Sociale”,”Prospettive Sociali e Sanitarie” and in the Editorial Board of “International Social Work” and “European Journal of Social Work”.
Research interests
Research interests are mainly inked to theoretical and methodological aspect of social work. I’ve been the first in Italy to experiment the systemic approach in social work, publishing books on this topic and realising training courses on this new model. I also conducted research regarding child abuses and the role of social workers, (Campanini, A. (ed.) (1993), Il maltrattamento all'infanzia, Roma: NIS) and methodology and techniques in social work (Bianchi and Ponticelli (eds.) (1994), Storie di lavoro nel servizio sociale, Milano: Franco Angeli). I participated in the research conducted by Prof. Ingrosso on “Reti di servizi e percorsi degli utenti in due ecosistemi socioeducativi” ("Reti e percorsi delle famiglie nel settore sociale" in Ingrosso (ed.), Rapporto finale della ricerca intervento, Parma 30 aprile 1997) and in the research on community development, coordinated by Prof. Giorio, University of Trieste, “Sviluppo di comunità locali: analisi comparata in aree territoriali definibili complementari” (Giorio, G.; Lazzari, F. and Merler, A. (eds.) (1999), Dal micro al macro, Padova: CEDAM). I’ve been involved in a multidisciplinary piece of research on the theoretical fundamentals of social work and I was member of the scientific committee of the “Dizionario di Servizio Sociale” , the first Italian Dictionary in Social Work, for the area concerning social work methodologies. Evaluation in social work is an other field of interest. I organised and chaired two workshops on that topic with some European contributions in the annual congress of Italian Society of Evaluation. I’m working on a project of research, funded by IASSW, on the assessment of parental capacities and children needs. European education is at present a great area of research and interest. All the activities linked to Thematic Network are oriented in this sense. I received a grant from the Italian University and Research Minister to realise a survey on the education in Europe with particular regard to the field training.
Main publications
Campanini A. ( a cura di) L’approccio sistemico relazionale applicato al servizio sociale: un nuovo modello?, Novastampa, Parma 1987
Campanini A.- Luppi F., Servizio sociale e modello sistemico, NIS Roma 1988
Campanini A. (a cura di) Il colloquio nel servizio sociale, Novastampa, Parma 1993
Campanini A. (a cura di ), Il maltrattamento all’infanzia, NIS, Roma 1993
Bosi A. - Campanini A. ( a cura di ), La cultura dell’ascolto nel presente, Unicopli, Milano 1997
Campanini A., Servizio sociale e sociologia.Storia di un dialogo, Lint, Trieste 1999
Campanini A., (a cura di), Servizio Sociale e società multietnica, Unicopli, Milano 2001
Campanini A., L’intervento sistemico, Carocci, Roma 2002
Campanini A., Frost E., European social work. Commonalities and differencies, Carocci, Roma 2004
Campanini A (a cura di)., La valutazione nel servizio sociale, Carocci, Roma 2006
Campanini A. (guest ed.) Frost E., Freitas M.J. (eds), Changing Social Work Education in Europe, Carocci, Roma 2007
Author of many chapters in edited books and articles in different Italian and European reviews.