Gaia Del Negro (PhD 2017, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) is a researcher, project evaluator, consultant for community development, counselor, and teacher of Italian as a second and foreign language (see LinkedIn profile). 

Research fellow at the University of Turin (Italy) since 2025 with a focus on Methods and Tools for the Institutionalisation of Service-learning in Universities.

Secretariat of RUIAP Rete Universitaria Italiana per l'Apprendimento Permanente/Italian university network for lifelong learning since 2022.

Consultant for communinity development at Metodi Srl and as an evaluator at Istituto Italiano di Valutazione since 2020.

Research collaborator at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) since 2016 and the Sunkhronos Institute (Switzerland) since 2021.

Member of the Life History and Biography Network of ESREA - European Society for Research on the Education of Adults since 2013.

Member of UNiSL Rete delle Università italiane per il Service-Learning/Italian Universities Network for Service-Learning, Experiential Translation Network, Feminist Imaginary Research Network (FIRN).

She explores auto/biographical, performative and participatory transformative methodologies to study knowing and culture, and individual and collective learning processes, in personal and professional lives, particulalry within education, healh, and social work. Her publications focus on professional learning, feminist pedagogy through art and in museums, and experiential translation.

Professional counselor specialised in systemic relational counselling at the CMTF Centro Milanese di Terapia della Famiglia since 2025.

A Milanese woman with a migrant working class background, she practices ecosomatic movement and not knowing.