• Staff of AB Development and Learning and Culture and Society
• Theory and practice in swimming

2021-present - Substitute professorship, Institute of Sports Science, Saarland University

2013-2021 - Research Assistant, Institute of Sport and Sport Science, TU Dortmund University

2010-2013 - binational PhD in Sport Science (Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen) and in Business and Management (University of Turin)

2005-2007 - Master in Sport Management, University of Turin

2002-2005 - Bachelor in Sport Science, University of Milan

1997-2002 - Humanistic High School, School "Primo Levi", Milan

Research focus

• Health
• Migration
• Conflict
• Management

Projects

Flight and Sport in Germany and Italy (Dr. Enrico Michelini, Birte Krause), 01.02.2018 - 01.12.2018

Flight and Elite Sport (Dr. Enrico Michelini, Jennifer Bruland), 01.06.2016-present.

Sport and Forced Migration in the Mass Media (Dr. Enrico Michelini), 2018-2022.

Scientific support of the funding program "Orientation through Sport" (Prof. Dr. Ulrike Burrmann, Prof. Dr. Nils Neuber (WWU Münster), Dr. Enrico Michelini, Katrin Brandmann, Sarah Quade (WWU Münster)), December 2016-May 2017.

Physical Activity in Refugee Reception Sites (Dr. Enrico Michelini), May 2019.

Publications

Michelini, E. (2021-Forthcoming). The medicalization of physical activity promotion. Salute e Società, 2.

Tuchel, J., Burrmann, U., Nobis, T., Michelini, E., & Schlesinger, T. (2021). Practices of voluntary sports clubs to include refugees. Sport in Society, 24(4), 670-692. doi:10.1080/17430437.2019.1706491.

Michelini, E., Bortoletto, N., & Porrovecchio, A. (2021-Forthcoming). Outdoor Physical Activity during the Coronavirus Crisis. A Comparative Analysis of Governmental Restrictions related to the COVID-19 in Italy, France and Germany. Frontiers in Public Health. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.615745.

Michelini, E. (2021). The Representation of Yusra Mardini as a Refugee Olympic Athlete: A Sociological Analysis. Sport and Society, 18(1), 39-64. doi:10.1515/sug-2021-0003.

Michelini, E. (2021). Organised Sport in Refugee Sites: An ethnographic research in Niamey. European Journal for Sport and Society. doi:10.1080/16138171.2021.1878433- Michelini, E. (2021). The Representation of the 'Refugee Crisis' and 'Sport' in the German Press: An Analysis of Newspaper Discourse. European Journal for Sport and Society. doi:10.1080/16138171.2021.1930945.

Michelini, E. (2020). Refugees, Physical Activity and Sport. A Systematic Literature Review. Mondi Migranti(3), 131-152. doi.org/10.3280/MM2020-003008

Michelini, E. (2020). Coping with Sport Ambitions after Forced Migration: Strategies of Refugee Athletes. European Journal for Sport and Society. doi:10.1080/16138171.2020.1792114.

Burrmann, U., Neuber, N., Michelini, E., Quade, S., & Brandmann, K. (2019). Final report on the scientific monitoring of the dsj projects "Orientation through Sport" (OdS 1 and 2). Frankfurt: dsj. Retrieved from www.dsj.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Bericht_Wissenschafltiche_Belgeitung.pdf

Michelini, E., Burrmann, U., Nobis, T., Tuchel, J., & Schlesinger, T. (2018). Sport Offers for Refugees in Germany. Promoting and hindering conditions in voluntary sport clubs. Society Register, 2(1), 19-38. doi:10.14746/sr.2018.2.1.02.

Michelini, E. (2018). War, migration, resettlement and sport socialization of young athletes: the case of Syrian elite water polo. European Journal for Sport and Society, 15(1), 5-21. doi:10.1080/16138171.2018.1440949.

Michelini, E. (2018). La promozione dell'attività fisica tra medicina e sport: una lettura a partire dalla teoria dei sistemi di Luhmann. [The Promotion of Physical Activity between Medicine and Sport: A Sociological Analysis Based on Luhmann's System Theory]. Salute e Società, 17(1), 141-158. doi:10.3280/SES2018-001010.

Michelini, E. (2017). Communicative Validity of Health-Related Promotion of Physical Activity: A Critical Analysis of National Health Strategies. Social Theory & Health, 15(4), 448-464. doi:10.1057/s41285-017-0037-2.

Michelini, E. (2017). The medicalization of physical activity promotion. SSRN. Retrieved from ssrn.com/abstract=3080456

Michelini, E. (2016). Conflicts in physical education from a systems theory perspective. What do they look like and how can they be managed? Retrieved from hdl.handle.net/2003/35320

Michelini, E. (2015). Disqualification of Sport in Health-Related Promotion of Physical Activity. A Global Social Phenomenon? European Journal for Sport and Society, 12(3), 257-280. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-08188-1.

Michelini, E., & Thiel, A. (2015). The Role of Sport Professionals in the Health-Related Promotion of Physical Activity. The Perspective of the Health System. In A. Göring & D. Möllenbeck (Eds.), Physical activity-oriented health promotion at universities. Theoretical perspectives, empirical findings and practical examples. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.

Michelini, E. (2014). 'Sport' as a Medium of Health Promotion. The Perspectives of the Sport and Health Systems in Germany. Sport and Society, 11(2), 83-104. doi:https://doi.org/10.1515/sug-2014-0202.

Michelini, E., & Thiel, A. (2013). The Acceptance of 'Sport' in the Communication of the Health System. A Sociological Analysis. European Journal for Sport and Society, 10(4), 325-344. doi:10.1080/16138171.2013.11687926.

Michelini, E. (2011). Cooperation in the promotion of physical activity. The function of the WHO and the role of sports in the Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health. In J. Schmid, K. Amos, J. Schrader & A. Thiel (Eds.), Worlds of education? Comparative analyses of education policies and systems (299-327). Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Lectures

EASS (Bordeaux 2018-Chair, Praha 2017, Copenhagen 2016-Chair, Dublin 2015, Utrecht 2014-invited, Cordoba 2013, Bern 2012), ESA (Manchester 2019-Chair, Athene 2017-Chair, Praha 2015-Chair, Turin 2013-Chair), dvs (Berlin 2019, Berlin 2018, Munich 2017, Cologne 2016, Erlangen 2014), ECSS (Dublin 2018-Invited), 6. Becker Foundation Conference (Cologne 2014), EASM (Aalborg 2012; Madrid, 2011), International-comparative research on education and education policy in the welfare state (Tübingen, 2010).