Committee staff

Dr Rachele Salvatelli is a Research Associate in the Public Health and Health Inequalities Theme of the Population Health Sciences Institute. 

Qualifications:

PhD in Sociology, University of York

MA in Political Philosophy, University of York

MA in Philosophy and Ethics of Human Relations, University of Perugia

BA in Philosophy, University of Perugia

Previous positions:

2021 – ongoing Visiting Lecturer, York St John University

2018 – 2022 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of York

2020 – 2021 Research Associate, University of York

Publications:

Salvatelli, R. Coming Out as Fat. In A. Farrell (ed) Routledge Companion to Gender and Fat. (Forthcoming).

Salvatelli, R. (2022) Lizzo’s Black, Fat and Female Resistance. Review of Lizzo’s Black, Fat and Female Resistance by N. Pickett Miller and G. Platenburg. Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2022.2031582

Glover, N., Salvatelli, R., Usta, D., Palma, T.  (2021). Life in Lockdown. A narrative project exploring the lived experiences of students at the University of York during the first national lockdown. Available at: https://wonkhe.com/wp-content/wonkhe-uploads/2021/08/LifeInLockdown_2021.pdf (Accessed: 24 August 2022).

Glover, N., Salvatelli, R., Usta, D., Palma, T.  (2021). It’s amazing what we can learn from students when we listen. Wonkhe. Available at: https://wonkhe.com/blogs/its-amazing-what-we-can-learn-from-students-when-we-listen/ (Accessed: 24 August 2022).

Salvatelli, R. (2019). On Fat Female Embodiment: Narratives of ‘Coming Out as Fat’. International Journal of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies. Vol. 4(1). Pp. 43-52.

Rachele is currently working on a research project about the impact of Long Covid on the health, wellbeing and education/employment prospects of young adults in North East England. Her research interests include narrative methodologies, sociology of health and illness, fat studies, sociology of the body, and sociology of stigma. 

In 2021, she completed a PhD in Sociology at the University of York on a project about the lived experiences of fat body positive individuals and the ways in which they narrate stories of their bodies. Her doctoral project focused on the concepts of fatness, identity, stigma, and stigma resistance. The aim of this research was to better understand how being part of the body positive movement affected the narratives of fat individuals.

Between December 2020 and August 2021, she also worked as a research associate on a multidisciplinary project in collaboration with the University of York Students' Union titled Life in Lockdown. This study used digital storytelling to understand the experiences of underrepresented students in Higher Education – particularly, working class, disabled and BAME students – during the first national lockdown.

Since 2021, Rachele has worked as a Visiting Lecturer in the York Business School and in the School of Science, Technology and Health at York St John University. She has designed, led and contributed to a number of social sciences modules, particularly in sociology, criminology, social psychology and research methods. 

Previous teaching experiences:

York St John University, School of Science, Technology and Health:

• Researching Whole Person Nursing

York St John University, York Business School:

• Deviance 

• Social Inequalities: Key Themes

• Contemporary Issues in Law and Social Science

• Introduction to Sociological Theory

• Researching and Presenting

• Fundamentals of Criminological Theory

• Introduction to the Criminal Justice System

University of York, Department of Sociology:

• Introduction to Sociological Theory

University of York, Department of Social Policy and Social Work:

• Introducing Sociology and Psychology

• Contemporary Issues in Social and Political Sciences