Autor: Elena Zamfir

Elena Zamfir is a university professor, and a senior researcher at the Romanian Academy”s Research Institute for Quality of Life, Bucharest. She has been involved in higher education and social research since 1966. Her principal research areas concern sociology and methodology, social-psychology, social work, social policies, antipoverty strategy and social inclusion etc. She is coordinating PhD programme in sociology since 1994–2009 at Bucharest University, 2009 – present at West Timisoara University. Head of Social Work and Applied Social Psychology Department, Bucharest University (1991–2009). Project leader in many national and international social research programs. She is the author of numerous books, papers, and national and international reports. Filomena Maggino is Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Florence, where she also coordinates the programme „QoLexity. Measuring, Monitoring and Analysis of Quality of Life and its Complexity”. Her main research interests concern data production, data analysis, and data presentation and dissemination, on which she has authored numerous publications. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Social Indicators Research journal and President and co-founder of the Italian Association for Quality-of-Life Studies (AIQUAV). She cooperates with, and is an advisor to, the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) with reference to quality-of-life and wellbeing issues.