Biography

Journal Articles

• De Martini Ugolotti, N., 2021. The productive turbulence and unresolved questions of 'new' materialist approaches to sport, leisure and physical culture. LEISURE STUDIES.
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• De Martini Ugolotti, N., 2020. Music-making and forced migrants’ affective practices of diasporic belonging. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-18.
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• Owen, C. and De Martini Ugolotti, N., 2019. ‘Pra homem, menino e mulher’? Problematizing the gender inclusivity discourse in capoeira. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 54 (6), 691-710.
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• Ugolotti, N.D.M., 2019. Parkour, leisure and neoliberal cityscapes: a two-book review. LEISURE STUDIES, 38 (4), 568-572.
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• De Martini Ugolotti, N. and Silk, M., 2018. Parkour, counter-conducts and the government of difference in post-industrial Turin. City, 22 (5-6), 763-781.
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• De Martini Ugolotti, N., 2017. ‘We are rolling and vaulting tonight’: sport programmes, urban regeneration and the politics of parkour in Turin, Italy. International Journal of Sport Policy, 9 (1), 25-40.
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• Ugolotti, N.D.M. and Moyer, E., 2016. "If I climb a wall of ten meters': capoeira, parkour and the politics of public space among (post)migrant youth in Turin, Italy. PATTERNS OF PREJUDICE, 50 (2), 188-206.
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• De Martini Ugolotti, N., 2015. Climbing walls, making bridges: children of immigrants’ identity negotiations through capoeira and parkour in Turin. Leisure Studies, 34 (1), 19-33.
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Books

• De Martini Ugolotti, N. and Caudwell, J., 2021. Leisure and Forced Migration Lives Lived in Asylum Systems. Routledge.
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Chapters

• Collison, C. and De Martini Ugolotti, N., 2021. Pain and Faith: An Intersectional-Phenomenological Exploration of Syrian Muslim Refugee Women’s Experiences of Yoga and Resettlement in Sweden. In: Caudwell, J., ed. Leisure and Forced Migration: Lives Lived in Asylum Systems. Routledge.
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• De Martini Ugolotti, N. and Caudwell, J., 2021. Leisure and Forced Migration: Lives Lived in Asylum Systems (Introduction). Leisure and Forced Migration: Lives Lived in Asylum Systems. Routledge.
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• De Martini Ugolotti, N., 2019. Corpi e città contese: studi culturali del corpo e trasformazioni urbane. In: Donato, A., Tonelli, L. and Galak, E., eds. Le Pieghe del Corpo. Mimesis.
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• De Martini Ugolotti, N., 2018. “No sleep'till Parco Dora”: Parkour ei paradossi di una città rigenerata, tra eterotopie e governo della differenza. In: Capello, C. and Semi, G., eds. Torino: Un profilo etnografico. Milano: Meltemi.
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Conferences

• De Martini Ugolotti, N. and Silk, M., 2017. Post-Migrant youth, parkour and the (contested) containment of difference in urban spaces of leisure. In: Leisure Studies Association 4-6 July 2017 Leeds.
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Internet Publications

• De Martini Ugolotti, N., 2020. "We Are in This Together": Covid-19, The Politics of Emotions and the Borders of Humanity. Available from: https://discoversociety.org/2020/04/08/we-are-in-this-together-covid-19-the-politics-of-emotions-and-the-borders-of-humanity/.
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PhD Students

• Jordan Cotton, 2018. MRes: "The East End is the new West End": London 2012 and resident experiences of the urban changes in a post-Olympic Landscape

Profile of Teaching PG

• Sport Principles and Practice, Level 7, Postgraduate, 15 registered students, Lecturer, second marker, 2 weeks, 2 x 3000 words assessment.

Profile of Teaching UG

• Social Perspectives in Sports, L4, UG, 300 registered students, Lecturer, 12 weeks, 2 x 1500 word assessment;
• Research Methods, Level 5, Undergraduate, 300 registered students, Lecturer, 3 weeks, 1 x 3000 words assessment
• Critical Sports Development, Level 6, Undergraduate, 50 registered students, Lecturer, 12 weeks, 2 x 1500 word assessment.
• Sport, Leisure and Politics, Level 6, Undergraduate, 15 registered students, Lecturer 12 weeks, 2 x 1500 words assessment

Invited Lectures

• Migrant youth, leisure and urban citizenship, University of Turin, Italy, 10 Apr 2019 more
  

  Invited Lecture at the University of Turin, Italy, Department of Culture, Politics, and Society
• Embodying mobility, emplacing change, Università di Bologna, 20 Mar 2018 more
  

  Associazione Italiana Sociologia Seminar cycle
• Geographies of the body: space, power, practice, Università di Bologna, 18 Feb 2018 more
  

  Research Seminar: "What a body can do? Epistemologies of/from the body"
• (Post)Migrant Youth and the City, University of Amsterdam, 22 Sep 2016 more
  

  Department of Anthropology

Grants

• Leisure and Forced Migration: Reframing Critical Analyses of Practices, Sociabilities and Lives Lived in the Asylum System (Leisure Studies Association. Maureen Harrington Fund, 10 Jan 2019). In Progress
• Climbing Walls, Making Bridges: Capoeira, Parkour and Children of Immigrants' Identity Negotiations in Turin's Public Spaces (University of Bath, 01 Oct 2018). Completed
• "Here to Play": Exploring the Role of Leisure in Forced Migrants' Negotiations of Place, Belonging and Uncertainty in Post-Brexit Bristol. (Leisure Studies Association, 18 Dec 2017). In Progress

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

• "We are in this together": Covid-19, the Politics of Emotions and the Borders of Humanity. Post published on sociological dissemination website discover society (https://discoversociety.org)
• Festival of Learning 2018, Public Talk. "Here to Play": forced migrants, music and belonging

Conference Presentations

• Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference 2019, Parkour, graffiti and the politics of (in)visibility in the leisure-oriented city, 09 Jul 2019, Abertay University, Dundee, Scotland
• Challenging Social Hierarchies and Inequalities, “Here to play”: Music-making and forced migrants' embodied practices of diasporic belonging, 24 Apr 2019, Glasgow Caledonian University
• Mobilising Change: Creative and Critical Leisure Practices in the Post-Disciplinary Era, "Here to Play": Musicality, dance and forced migrants' negotiations of place, belonging and uncertainty in Bristol, 10 Jul 2018, University of Bath
• 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Contested Bodies in a Regenerating City: Post-Migrant Youth's Disputed Leisure and Contingent Citizenship in Turin, 28 Aug 2017, Athens
• Leisure Studies Association, Leeds, 4th-6th July 2017, Post-Migrant youth, parkour and the (contested) containment of difference in urban spaces of leisure, 04 Jul 2017, Leeds
• From Contested Cities to Global Urban Justice, CONTESTED BODIES, CONTESTED CITIES: (POST)MIGRANT YOUTH, CONTINGENT CITIZENSHIP AND THE POLITICS OF CAPOEIRA AND PARKOUR IN TURIN, ITALY, 04 Jul 2016, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain)

Qualifications

• PhD in Physical Cultural Studies (University of Bath, Department of Health, 2016)
• MSc in Medical Anthropology (University of Amsterdam, 2011)
• BSc (Hons) in Clinical Psychology (University of Turin, Italy, 2007)

Honours

• Research Excellence Visiting Scientist Award (University of Turin, Italy, 2019)

Memberships

• European Sociological Association, Member (2017-),
• Associazione Frantz Fanon, Torino, Clinical Psychologist; Social Reseacher (2007-), http://associazionefanon.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1&lang=it
• Leisure Studies Association, Member,

Social Media Links

• Twitter, @nicolademarti12