Research project: Discrimination on the base of age: discriminatory practices and good practices
The research aims to describe discriminatory on the basis of age in various social and institutional contexts, but also good practices, that is practices that promote the social inclusion of older people, in the perspective of the creation of a world society for all ages. In addition the project involves the creation of an international researchers network involved in studying ageism and sustaining the struggles of grassroot groups against discrimination on the basis of age, aiming to effect relevant legislation.
In cooperation with Pirjo Nikander, University of Tampere, Finland; W.R.Bytheway, Open University, UK; Larry Anderson, Kwantlen University College, Canada.

Research project: Work, technology, communication: a study of the medical emergency control rooms
A research project carried out for the Department of communication sciences of the University of Bologna, regarding communication supported by information technology.
2004 pilot project, data collection in the medical emergency control room in Foligno
2003 pilot project, data collection in the medical emergency control room in Trento
Data analysis in progress, here are the first results:
Paoletti, I (2006) Communication and gender issues in a control room of the medical emergency number in Italy, M. Barrett & M. Davidson, (a cura di) Gender and Communication issues at work. Ashgate.
Paoletti, I (2006) Communication and decision making aspects of the work of call operators in control rooms of the medical emergency number in Italy, intervento presentato nella sessione “Language, work, technology”, Research Committee 25: Sociolinguistics, ISA World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, 23-29 luglio.

Organization of the panel: Emergency call centres: communication problems and pragmatic aspects of routine work and of disasters management, International Pragmatics Conference 09-Jul-2007 - 14-Jul-2007, Göteborg, Sweden
Isabella Paoletti, Social Research and Intervention Centre, NGO, Perugia, Italy, paoletti@ircip.org
Giolo Fele, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, giolo.fele@soc.unitn.it

Editor of the on-line newsletter of the International Sociological Association Research Group 25: Language in Society. http://www.ircip.org/newsletter/summer2006/index.htm

The support of the creation of the association Sociologist without Borders Italy, in particular the managing of the web site http://www.ircip.org/ssf/web/default.htm, coordinating the international activities and keeping in contacts with members.
Organization of the panel: Academics and Human Rights Activism, SSF Organizer(s): Isabella Paoletti and Judith Blau, World Social Forum, 19-25 Jan, Nairobi, Kenia.
Co-sponsoring Organizations/Contact Persons: Centre for Civil Society/Sufian Bukurura (bukuras@ukzn.ac.za), International Network of Scholar Activists (INOSA)/Jackie Smith (jsmith40@nd.edu), ISA RC on Economy and Society/ Chris Chase-Dunn (chriscd@mail.ucr.edu), Cultural, Social, and Economic Rights/Maria Elena Rodrigues Ortiz (elena@fase.org.br)