Fulvio Scognamiglio

BIO

GENERAL INFO

Fulvio Scognamiglio
📺 born in Naples
10 dec, 1989

A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

I am a Lecturer in Business and Management at London South Bank University (United Kingdom), where I began working in November 2024. I hold a PhD in Public Management from the Open University, with my thesis entitled "The Circular Transition through Network Governance." This research represents a holistic effort to understand the relationship between the Circular Economy and network governance in an urban context. My research interests focus on three interrelated areas: 1) The role of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in contemporary society; 2) Governance and public management of complex and wicked problems; 3) Circular Economy and the urban transition towards circular models of production and consumption.
As a scholar, my research focus is on social entrepreneurship, social innovation, and public governance, with particular attention to interactions among different societal stakeholders. I have also published several articles on various collaborative phenomena, including relationships between public actors and other societal stakeholders, social innovation, social entrepreneurship, and public actor-nonprofit relationships.
During my career, I have also gained teaching experience at all academic levels, ranging from being a Lecturer for undergraduate and master’s modules to having my own methodological course for PhD students.
I am an expert in several methodologies, with relevant knowledge in Systematic Literature Review analysis, Bibliometric Analysis, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), Social Network Analysis, and Q methodology. Further, I have extensive knowledge of academic software, including RStudio, VOSviewer, Gephi, NVivo, and ASReview.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

📘 PhD in Public Management @The Open University
🔎 Lecturer @London South Bank University

BACK THEN

- Postdoc researcher @Universitá degli Studi Milano-Bicocca
- Visiting PhD Student @Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Master in Politics, Administration, and Organization @University of Bologna
- Bachelor in Political Science and International Relations @University of Naples

PORTFOLIO

ONGOING PROJECTS

- I am building a large-scale bibliometric database of Public Administration scholarship, using OpenAlex data to map the field’s boundaries, intellectual structure, evolution, and relevance across disciplines, institutions, and policy contexts. See the public repository on Open Science Framework
- I am working on an umbrella review to evaluate systematic literature reviews in Public Administration, assess their methodological quality, identify common weaknesses, and develop guidance to strengthen evidence synthesis for research, policy, practice and impact.

PUBLICATIONS

- "Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in the Public Administration (PA) scholar field: a bibliometric analysis and some conceptual considerations" - Caló et al. (2024) Public Management Review
- "The public sector and co-creation in turbulent times: A systematic literature review on robust governance in the COVID-19 emergency" - Scognamiglio et al. (2023) - Public Administration
- "Social innovation during turbulent times: a systematic literature review and research agenda" - Calò et al. (2024) - Public Management Review
- "Negotiating autonomy in the public sector and nonprofits "collaborations" in politically contested fields" - Calò et al. (2024) - Governance
- "Institutionalizing Experimental Places for Inclusive Social Innovation: From Utopias to Heterotopias" - Sancino et al. (2024) - Voluntas
- "A comparison of city leadership constellations in Italy and the UK" - Sancino et al. (2023) - Oxford University Press
- "Navigating the Award Gap of Ethnic Minority Students" - Caló, F., et al. (2025) - In J. Baxter, H. Selby-Fell, & A. Gilbert (Eds.), "Creativity and critique in digital learning and teaching: Insights for learning design in business and law". Palgrave Macmillan
- "The Circular Transition Through the Network Governance" - Scognamiglio F. (2024) - PhD Thesis

CONFERENCES

UK Association for Public Administration (UKAPA)
2025 - Presentation of the working paper "Improving the Quality of Systematic Literature Reviews in Public Administration and Management: An Umbrella Review"

- European Group of Public Administration (EGPA)
2025 - Presentation of the working paper "Improving the Quality of Systematic Literature Reviews in Public Administration and Management: An Umbrella Review"
2024 - Co-Chair and Operating Committee of the XIX Standing Group "Collaborative Networks and Social Innovation"
2023 - Co-Chair and Operating Committee of the XIX Standing Group "Collaborative Networks and Social Innovation"
2021 - Presentation of the working paper "An urban transition for the Circular Economy: a network perspective"

- International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM)
2025 - Presentation of the working paper "A problem-oriented governance approach for complexity: a research agenda for the future
2024 - Presentation of the working paper "The Strategy Management at Scale of Social Enterprises: Scaling Public Value and Civic Wealth Creation"
2022 - Presentation of the working paper "Public Administration and Social Entrepreneurship - A Plea for Integration via Public Value Theory" with Alessandro Sancino
2021 - Presentation of the working paper "Networks and procedural outcomes: insights from the Circular Economy"

- European Consortium for Political Research (2023)
2023 - Presentation of the working paper "Facing pain to reach gain in co-creation: A systematic literature review of participants' coping strategies" with Benedetta Trivellato and Daniela Cristofoli

- Public Management Research Conference (PMRC)
2023 - Presentation of the working paper "What Activates Citizens to Engage with Government? Evidence from Experimental and Qualitative Data" with Alessandro Sancino, Milena Neshkova, and Donavon Johnson

- Social Outcomes Conferences: Blavatnik School of Government
2023 - Presentation of the working paper "Facing pain to reach gain in co-creation: A systematic literature review of participants' coping strategies" with Benedetta Trivellato and Daniela Cristofoli

- European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS)
2024 - Presentation of the working paper "Trust within Network Governance: A Systematic Literature Review
2022 - Presentation of the working paper "Organizing the City for Co-Creation: Evidence from Padua (IT) and Peterborough (UK)" with Alessandro Sancino

- Transatlantic Dialogue (TAD)
2022 - Presentation of the working paper "Where we are with public value co-creation? A bibliometric analysis" with Alessandro Sancino

OLDER PROJECTS

- Research Assistant @ The Open University (UK) on the funded project “Understanding the dynamics of attainment gap of BAME undergraduate students in Business and Management Schools: a systematic literature review of causes, barriers, and interventions (2022)
- Research assistant @ The University of Bergamo (Italy) on the funded project “Objective and subjective predictors of successful networks” (2021)
- Research assistant @ The Open University (UK) on the funded project “Social innovation during turbulent times: a systematic literature review and research agenda" (2021)
- Main Researcher, @ University of Brescia, on the funded project “Context and future trends of public networks”, a systematic literature review on the role of trust in the networks
- Research Assistant, @ The Open University, on the funded project "Inclusive, social, green, responsible: tracking development of academic research on unconventional innovation types and its implications for innovation studies

BLOG POSTS

- Who am I? A sort of presentation - link

CONTACTS

TALK TO ME

📮 Mail | scognamiglio.fulvio(at)gmail.com
🛠️ LinkedIn | Fulvio Scognamiglio
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