Rita Gouveia is a researcher in the sociology of family and personal life at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She is currently developing her research in the international project NETREP - Reproduction networks in a complex planetary future: Intimacy, companionship and family building in Finland, Portugal, and Scotland, funded by the Kone Foundation. She is a member of the executive board of the Research Network - Families and Intimate Lives of the European Sociological Association and the European Society of Family Relations. She is co-editor of the books The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe and Vidas Confinadas: Famílias, quotidianos e vulnerabilidades sociais no início da pandemia COVID-19 em Portugal. In May 2023, she was elected a member of the coordinating team of the “Families and Life Course” section (ST-FCV) of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS) for 2023-2027.
