Filippo Oncini

Filippo Oncini is an Assistant Professor at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute, Maastricht University. He earned his PhD in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento in 2018, with a dissertation on children's food inequalities and access to school meals in Italy. His research focuses on food consumption and provision systems, with an emphasis on social inequalities, cultural stratification, food insecurity, and urban poverty. He employs a range of methodologies, including ethnographic fieldwork and large survey data analysis. His recent projects, funded by the Marie Curie Fellowship and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, and conducted in Manchester and Kyoto, explored the dynamics of cooperation and competition among various food charities in the UK and Japan, with particular attention to the relationship between social and environmental sustainability. From January 2025, he will further pursue these topics through the ERC Starting Grant for his project, FOOD CHARITIES. He is currently the Master’s thesis coordinator for the "Sustainability Science, Policy, and Society" program.