Dr Loriana Luccioni was awarded her PhD by The University of Queensland in 2022. In her thesis "Universal Basic Income: Disarticulating and Rearticulating Australian Discourses" she advances the hypothesis that the feasibility for the implementation of a UBI in Australia is intimately and inextricably tied to the socio-cultural discourses circulating in the country. Discourses provide the conceptual frames on which values such as unconditionality, freedom, compassion, reciprocity and many more can be comprehended and embedded in policy. Dr Luccioni also argues that the feasibility of a UBI implementation strongly relies on the ability of a multiplicity of discourses, to articulate together towards the creation of a social imaginary "yet to be imagined", and of which UBI could be a stepping stone - not the end goal. In her latest presentation at the BIEN 2025, Dr Luccioni opens a productive yet provocative conceptual window: UBI as a Collective Psychedelic Macrodose, a frame that could avoid turning UBI into an act of social engineering and into an opening towards what it might truly be: a threshold into the unknown. Dr Luccioni also holds a Master Degree in European and Comparative Social Policy and the 2013 Titmuss Prize by the London School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Psychology with Sociology from Kingston University. She's currently exploring the field of Psychotherapy, the philosophy and practice of Western Esoteric Schools spanning from Spiritual Alchemy to Western Traditional Astrology. By indeed playing with the art of living and reinventing oneself that UBI could afford unconditionally, she is currently working as a Psychological-Evolutionary Astrologist, interweaving these multiple strands of knowledge and practice. 

Relevant recent outputs: 

• Luccioni, L. (2025). ‘Embracing the Unknown: Universal Basic Income as Collective Psychedelic Journey.’ Paper presented at the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) annual conference, Rio de Janeiro - 25-29 August 2025.

• Luccioni, L. (2022). Universal basic income: disarticulating and rearticulating Australian discourses. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland. https://doi.org/10.14264/c9ff878

• Luccioni, L. (2020). UBI Activism and Advocacy in Australia: The Present. In: Caputo, R.K., Liu, L. (eds) Political Activism and Basic Income Guarantee. Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43904-0_9

• UBI and Discourse - ArtsFront · May 28, 2020 (minutes 14 to 28 approximately) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_4PjtzKHsI