Dr. Maria Grazia Gambardella is a research fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Sociology and Social Research. Her work focuses on youth transitions, gender and social inequalities, early parenthood, and gender-based violence, with a strong methodological background in qualitative and longitudinal research. She is a member of several academic boards. Her current research interests include youth well-being, future imaginaries, everyday forms of citizenship, and the study of gender-based violence.