Federica Guccini

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Federica Guccini is a research associate in the Immigration knowledge area at The Conference Board of Canada where she offers evidence-based insights on Canadian immigration challenges to support policymakers, service providers, and community leaders in their decision-making. Her areas of expertise are multilingualism, linguistic and cultural diversity, and community-building.

She previous held a postdoctoral position in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Western University and taught in the Anthropology department. Federica received her Ph.D. in Anthropology and a collaborative specialization in Migration and Ethnic Relations from Western University in December 2022. Her dissertation project was funded by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Research associate, The Conference Board of Canada
  • 2023–2024
    Postdoctoral associate, Western University

Education

  • 2022 
    Western University, Ph.D. Anthropology
  • 2017 
    Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, M.A. Anthropology

Publications

  • 2025
    Shin, Hwayeon Danielle, Jaejun Lee, Iman Kassam, and Federica Guccini. Mining Public Voices: Analyzing Suicide-Related Thoughts and Behaviors in YouTube Videos and Comments Using Topic Modeling., Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 322: 2-6.
  • 2024
    Guccini, Federica, Marie-Pier Cantin, Ahrrabie Thirunavukkarasu, and Gerald McKinley. Polymedia Literacy and Other Ethical Considerations for Online Ethnographic Research on Social Networking Sites, Ethics & Human Research 46 (5): 13-25.
  • 2022
    Guccini, Federica and Gerald McKinley. “How deep do I have to cut?“: Non-suicidal self-injury and imagined communities of practice on Tumblr, Social Science & Medicine 296:1-9.
  • 2021
    Guccini, Federica and Mingyuan Zhang. 'Being Chinese' in Mauritius and Madagascar: Comparing Chinese diasporic communities in the western Indian Ocean, The Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 4 (2): 91-117.

Grants and Contracts

  • 2019
    Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Scholarship
    Role:
    Scholar
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

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  • Research collaboration