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Dr Simone Marino

Post Doctoral Research Fellow

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Email: s.marino@ecu.edu.au
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6349-6013

Dr Simone Marino is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the School of Education.

Background

Dr Simone Marino is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with VC Professorial Research Fellow, Professor Narelle Lemon on projects such as the Citizen Wellbeing Scientist Project, which explores everyday self-care through multi-modal community engagement.

He is researching and has co-designed Comusichiamo, a music and narrative engagement intervention that highlights the role of home music, first language, and storytelling in supporting migrant populations living with dementia and their family caregivers. For this research, he serves as Music & Cultural Engagement Consultant for WA InCasa Aged Care.

Simone’s interdisciplinary research focuses on ethnic identity construction and transmission, dementia’s impact, and the wellbeing of diverse migrant communities. He is also an Adjunct Research Fellow at ECU’s SAGE Futures Lab.

Professional associations

  • Present ECU Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab Research Fellow
  • Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG)
  • Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) Fellow member
  • 2022 – present Centre for Research in Aged Care (CRAC) Edith Cowan University
  • 2021 – present National Ageing Research Institute (NARI)
  • 2020 – 2021 Research Associate at The University of Western Australia (UWA) at Social Care and Ageing Living Lab (SAGE)
  • 2020 – present Creative People, Products and Places (CP3), University of South Australia
  • 2019 – present Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN)
  • Centre for Economic and Cultural Sociology (CECS)
  • 2018 – present Oral History Australia SA/NT
  • 2015 – present Postgraduate Forum of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
  • 2012 – present Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS)
  • The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
  • TASA Migration, ity and Multiculturalism Thematic Group
  • 2012 – present Research Centre for Languages and Cultures (University of South Australia)

Awards and recognitions

  • 2024 The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) “Sociology in Action Bursary” for ‘Having conducted important applied sociological research in industry’ (4th September).
  • 2020 Inpress Magazine, Citizen Journalism and News Magazine (an Italian magazine of culture and society) Autori in Viaggio (travelling authors) prize for the book Intergenerational Ethnic Identity among Italian-Australians. Absence, Ambivalence and Revival as “best ethnographic investigation 2020”. (18th October, Rome).
  • Honorary Research Fellow Award from the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS), 2020-2023.
  • 2019 The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Precarious Work Conference Scholarship, Western Sydney University, by AProf Dan Woodman, TASA President, for my presentation ‘Beyond authenticity. An ethnographic reflection on Italians in Australia and Italians in Italy’.
  • 2017 Inpress Magazine, Citizen Journalism and News Magazine (an Italian magazine of culture and society) for my book Calabresi ad Adelaide, l’esperienza migratoria vissuta dai suonatori tradizionali. (24th September, Rome).
  • 2015 Finalist in the Three Minutes Thesis Competition, University of South Australia. https://vimeo.com/236371065
  • 2012 Award of La Voce di Tutti (the people’s voice) by the director of special issues of the Rome City Council Journal for the ‘exceptional quality’ of my book Calabresi ad Adelaide, l’esperienza migratoria vissuta dai suonatori tradizionali.

Research areas and interests

  • His research interests encompass the construction and transmission of ethnic identity, the impact of music, storytelling and first language to support the wellbeing of migrants living with dementia.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of South Australia, 2018.

Research Outputs

2025

Book Chapters

  • Baldassar, L., Ghosh, M., Marino, S. (2025). Music, emotions and migration. Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration: New Mobilities and Artivism (412-414). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035300389.ch133.

2024

Journal Articles

  • Marino, S., Baldassar, L. (2024). Comusichiamo. First Language, Life-Soundtracks and Storytelling to Support the Cultural Wellbeing of Migrants Living with Dementia. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2024(Article in press), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2024.2418601.
  • Zivkovic, T., Marino, S. (2024). “The clock is ticking”: (dis)orientations to ageing and end-of-life care in advanced capitalism and care directives. Journal of Sociology, 2024(Article in press), pp. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241249510.

2023

Journal Articles

  • Baldassar, L., Nguyen, M., Jones, B., Stevens, C., Krzyzowski, L., Lozeva, S., Marino, S., Du Plooy, C., Eldridge, J., Almeida, OP., Ghosh, M. (2023). The impacts of COVID-19 restrictions on care-givers of people with cognitive impairment and their support needs: a mixed-methods systematic review. Ageing and Society, 2023(Article in press), 31 pages. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X23000752.

2022

Journal Articles

2021

Journal Articles

  • Marino, S. (2021). Thrown into the world: The shift between pavlova and pasta in the ethnic identity of Australians originating from Italy. Journal of Sociology, 57(2), 231-248. https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783319888283.

2020

Books

  • Marino, S. (2020). Intergenerational Ethnic Identity Construction and Transmission among Italian-Australians: Absence, Ambivalence and Revival. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48145-2.

Book Chapters

  • Marino, S. (2020). Existing Research on Italian Migrants in the USA and Australia: A Critical Overview. The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education (679-692). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67828-3_71.

Journal Articles

  • Marino, S. (2020). Comparatico (godparenthood) as an emblematic form of social capital among Australian families originating from rural Calabria living in Adelaide, South Australia. Social Anthropology, 28(1), 136-152. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12747.
  • Marino, S. (2020). An intergenerational conceptualisation of Italian-Australian ethnic identity through Bourdieu and Heidegger. Social Identities: journal for the study of race, nation and culture, 26(1), 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2019.1664286.

2019

Journal Articles

  • Marino, S. (2019). Ethnic identity and race: the “double absence” and its legacy across generations among Australians of Southern Italian origin. Operationalizing institutional positionality.. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42(5), 707-725. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2018.1451649.
  • Marino, S. (2019). The “double absence” of the immigrant and its legacy across generations among Australians of Italian Origin. Journal of Anthropological Research, 75(1), 21-47. https://doi.org/10.1086/701271.

2014

Journal Articles

  • Marino, S., Chiro, G. (2014). Family alliances and comparatico among a group of calabrian-australian families in adelaide, south australia. Journal of Anthropological Research, 70(1), 107-130. https://doi.org/10.3998/jar.0521004.0070.105.

2013

Journal Articles

  • Marino, S., Chiro, G. (2013). Tradition and identity: An ethnographic case study of seven Calabrian families living in Adelaide, South Australia. Emigration Studies, 50(191), 551-559.

Research Projects

  • BEFRIENDING WITH GENIE: An intervention to reduce loneliness and increase social support and service access for people living with dementia and their caregivers from CaLD backgrounds, National Health and Medical Research Council, MRFF - Dementia, Ageing and Aged Care Mission, 2023 ‑ 2027, $1,480,065.
  • Let's Sing Together - Social prescription to combat loneliness and social isolation to support wellbeing for older migrants living with dementia., Edith Cowan University, Early-Mid Career Researcher Grant Scheme 2024 (Stream 2), 2024 ‑ 2025, $39,571.
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