Environment and Society [TS]
Arts, Culture and Communication [TS]
Classes, Inequalities and Public Policies [TS]
Knowledge, Science and Technology [TS]
Population Dynamics, Generations and Ageing [TA]
Cultural Diversity and Spaces for Intervention [TS]
Family and Life Courses [TS]
Globalization, Politics and Citizenship [TS]
Identities, Values and Ways of Life [TA]
Migrations, Ethnicity and Racism [TS]
Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policies [TS]
Security, Defense and Armed Forces [TS]
Sexuality and Gender [TS]
Civil Society, Alternative Economies and Voluntary Work [TS]
Sociology of Education [TS]
Sociology of Religion [TS]
Sociology of Health [TS]
Sociology of Consumption [TS]
Sociology of Sport [TS]
Sociology of Law and Justice [TS]
Sociology of Tourism [TS]
Theories and Methodologies [TA]
Territories: Cities, Fields and Seas [TS]
Work, Organizations and Professions [TS]
FL-UP
FL-UP
Alexandra Lopes has a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and works as a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Sociology at UPORTO, where she is, among other things, Director of the PhD in Social Sciences and Ageing. She is a consultant for the European Commission in the areas of Ageing and Well-being, Social Inclusion and Social and Territorial Inequalities. She is also a scientific evaluator for the La Caixa Foundation's Social Observatory in Portugal.
Her academic career has been marked by her involvement in numerous national and international research projects in the field of demographic ageing and its challenges, particularly those related to living conditions and meeting needs. She is the author of several publications on the subject. She is currently leading the LeTs-Care project in Portugal, a European research project funded under the Horizon Europe Program, which is looking at the challenges and opportunities in the long-term care sector.
Dinâmia’CET, ISCTE-IUL
Dinâmia’CET, ISCTE-IUL
Ana Cristina Ferreira is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Research Methods at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and a researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-ISCTE. She has a PhD in Sociology (2002) and a particular interest in quantitative methods applied to the Social Sciences. Research into mixed marriages in Portugal (marriages between an immigrant and a native of Portugal).
CICS.NOVA
CICS.NOVA
Ana Ferreira is an assistant researcher with a fixed-term contract (CEECIND/01053/2017) working on sociology of science and innovation at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences of NOVA FCSH. Currently, her research is focused on understanding how modifications in academic organizations (increasingly relying on precarious labour and management structures), practices (top-delineated, short-term and application-driven) and epistemic culture (articulating a meritocratic culture with the rhetoric of self-realization) frame, on the one hand, knowledge production, and on the other, academic and life trajectories of researchers. Her work has resulted in 1 book, 24 indexed papers and 8 book chapters. Also, she was awarded 2 Project Grants by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Principal investigator (PI); 25% and 13% success rate; 160K and 156K), 1 Santander-NOVA Collaborative Grant (Co-PI; 1 grant/year; 25K) and is an active member of internationally-funded research networks within the framework of Cost Actions and CYTED. Additionally, she has been an invited assistant professor of sociology and science and technology studies (more than 20 courses, since 2012), reviews papers for indexed journals, develops outreach activities and is deeply involved in scientific labour rights activism.
Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, CECS
Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, CECS
Doutorada em Sociologia pela Universidade do Minho, é professora associada, com agregação, em Sociologia na mesma universidade, e investigadora permanente do Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade. É diretora do Mestrado em Sociologia, tendo sido membro do Conselho Geral da Universidade do Minho (2009-2017). Presentemente é secretária-geral do Centro de Estudos Euro-Regionais Galiza e Norte de Portugal (FCEER). As áreas de investigação e publicação têm incidido sobre trabalho, emprego, ensino superior e empreendedorismo; desigualdades e reconfigurações dos mercados de trabalho; relações de género e identidades profissionais.
Socióloga/Assistente de investigação
Socióloga/Assistente de investigação
Sociologist, with research experience since 2011 in the areas of social inequalities, environment and climate change, youth and the labor market. She has a PhD in Sociology from the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, in the doctoral program in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies (specialization in Sociology). She also has a postgraduate degree in Data Analysis in Social Sciences. He is a collaborating member of the Inequalities Observatory. In the 2023-2027 triennium, he is a member of the coordination team of the Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policies section of the Portuguese Sociological Association. Among his teaching experiences in the area of Social Sciences, his teaching in the subject of Public Policies and Development, in the Master's Degree in Social Policies and Regional Dynamics, at the University of the Azores, in 2023/24, stands out.Instituto Universitário Militar- Academia Militar/CINAMIL. CICS.NOVA
Instituto Universitário Militar- Academia Militar/CINAMIL. CICS.NOVA
Associate Professor at the Military Academy, member of the Research Center of the Military Academy (CINAMIL) and integrated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA)
Centro de Estudos Sociais – CES
Centro de Estudos Sociais – CES
António Pedro Fidalgo, APS member no. 3216. He has a degree in Sociology and a Master's degree in International Relations - Peace, Security and Development Studies from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (2019 and 2022). He is a PhD student in the Human Rights in Contemporary Societies program at the University of Coimbra. He is a Research Manager in the TRACE Project - Tracing Queer Citizenship over Time: Ageing, ageism and age-related LGBTI+ politics in Europe and a Junior Researcher at the Center for Social Studies (CES-UC) where he is a member of the Sexualities Research Group (GPS-CES). His research interests include queer theories, methodologies and studies, peace and violence studies, LGBTQIA+ organizations, and social enterprises.
Faculdade de Medicina, ULisboa
Faculdade de Medicina, ULisboa
Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Integrated Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Health (ISAMB-FMUL) and Associate Researcher at Cies-Iscte
Brígida Riso has a PhD in Sociology and a master's degree in Health, Medicine and Society from Iscte-IUL. She has a degree in Nursing. She has been investigating the social and ethical aspects of biomedical research, as well as the responsible production of resources for health research, namely health data. She has also been working on issues of scientific integrity and open science.
Docente do Ensino Superior
Docente do Ensino Superior
Ph.D. em Sociologia (Universidade de Nova Iorque)
. Professor Catedrático jubilado da Universidade de Coimbra
. Ex-Presidente da APS
. Pubicações recentes: Cidades e Urbanidades (Imprensa de Ciências Sociais (2020), "O Mundo Social do Ruído" (Análise Social, 234, 2020) e "Urbanidades Complexas: Considerações sobre o envelhecimento das cidades" (Caderno CRH, vol. 36, 2022).
Investigador
Investigador
PhD in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, with the thesis “Fintar Fronteiras. International Migrations in Portuguese Football” (2013). He is a researcher at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, where he is part of the Democracy, Justice and Human Rights Thematic Line, and is active in the Permanent Observatory of Justice. He is a member of the Portuguese team of the FRANET network of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). He has been a lecturer at several Portuguese higher education institutions, teaching in the area of Social Sciences, holding management positions and positions on scientific and pedagogical bodies. She has participated in various research projects in the areas of Fundamental Rights, sociology of the professions, international cooperation, migration, sports labor migration, sociology of sport, biographical narratives and access to the law. Her areas of interest are the Sociology of Migration, Sports Migration, Sociology of Sport and Sociology of Law.CICS.NOVA, NOVA FCSH
CICS.NOVA, NOVA FCSH
Catarina Delaunay is an Assistant Researcher at CICS.NOVA - Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), Lisbon. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Autonomous University of Lisbon. She currently coordinates Research Group 5: Health, Population and Well-being, at CICS.NOVA, and the “Health Governance and Regulation” working group at NOVAsaúde Health Systems and Policies. She is a member of the Board of the Sociology of Health and Medicine Research Networks of the European and Portuguese Sociological Associations (ESA and APS).
Her main research interests lie in the fields of Sociology of Health and Medicine and Science and Technology Studies, with a particular focus on the socio-technical controversies surrounding the biomedicalization of human reproduction.
Universidade da Beira Interior
Universidade da Beira Interior
Associate Professor at the University of Beira Interior and Researcher at CIES-IUL (Center for Research and Studies in Sociology). She is currently director of the master's degree in Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Her research interests are gender mobility and citizenship, transport and inequalities; work, entrepreneurship and organizations.
ISUP-FLUP
ISUP-FLUP
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto. Current Director of the BA in Sociology.
PhD and BA in Sociology (Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, 2004 and 1990). MA in Human Resources Politics and Management (Institute of Work and Organization Sciences, University Institute of Lisbon, 1996).
Post-Doctorate in Administration on Social Entrepreneuship at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil, 2012). She has been conducting a research on the Solidarity Economy Ecosystem in Catalonia (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain, 2016; Xarxa d'Economia Solidària, 2021). In this context, she has been developing a comparative analysis between Brazil, Portugal and Catalonia.
Author and co-author of scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, oral presentations and conferences at academic and professional events. As scientific coordinator and supervisor of master and doctoral theses, she develops action-research in activities and projects related to social and solidarity economy, agroecology, entrepreneurship, human resources and sociology of work and organizations, as well as evaluation of research and innovation programs.
She was a co-founding member of A3S - Association for Social Entrepreneurship and the Sustainability of the Third Sector (2006 – 2017) and is currently Chairwoman of the Fiscal Council of the Portuguese Sociology Association.
Consultant at A3ES - Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education.
Centro de Estudos Globais – CEG-UAb, Universidade Aberta - UAb
Centro de Estudos Globais – CEG-UAb, Universidade Aberta - UAb
Cristina Pereira Vieira, APS member no. 3105. She has a PhD in Sociology from UAb - Universidade Aberta. She is a researcher at the Center for Global Studies (CEG-UAb), where she coordinates the Anthropocene, Sustainability and Development Research Group. She is a collaborator at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (CIEG-ISCSP/UL). She is an Associate Professor at UAb. Based on the themes of sexuality and gender, she has invested in the knowledge of social reality from, among others, youth sexualities, gender identities and expressions, gender violence, masculinity, risks and vulnerabilities.
CFE - Universidade de Coimbra | DSCG - Universidade Aberta
CFE - Universidade de Coimbra | DSCG - Universidade Aberta
Diogo Guedes Vidal is a Portuguese environmental and health sociologist (1993) combining ecology and environmental health in sociological knowledge. Holds a degree in Sociology (2014), Master's in Sociology from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal (2016) and PhD in Ecology and Environmental Health (2022). He has been a research fellow in several projects funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, I.P.), the main Portuguese public funding agency, in the area of public and environmental health, environmental sociology, and sustainability. He started his scientific activity during his master's degree in sociology (2014-2016), working on a funded project in the application of surveys and interview reviews. Between 2016 and 2017, he was a sociologist at a market research company, and between 2017 and 2019, he was a research fellow in several projects funded by FP-ENAS, an interdisciplinary research unit in environmental energy and health at the University Fernando Pessoa. Between 2017 and 2022 he was a Ph.D. research fellow with a project funded by FCT, I.P. to be developed at the FP-ENAS in the University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal, focused on understanding the socioecology of public urban green spaces where he combined innovative and transdisciplinary techniques, applying checklists, questionnaire surveys, cluster analysis, and behavioral mapping of these spaces users. Currently, he is Invited Assistant Researcher at the EU project "PHOENIX: The rise of citizens voices for a greener Europe¿ at the Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, University of Coimbra, Portugal. His research outputs are diverse and characterized by a transdisciplinary profile, namely in the field of sustainability, urban and human ecology, and social and environmental inequalities. All these studies topics came from his main study area which is the Society and Nature relations and dynamics, namely the social representation of Nature, its understandings, meanings, and symbols. He was editor of an international Springer book on cross-cutting themes in energy, environment, and health, guest editor of the international journal Frontiers in Sustainable Cities (Frontiers), Urban Science (MDPI), and at Frontiers in Environmental Science (Frontiers).ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Eva Gonçalves is a sociologist, a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Research Methods at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and an integrated researcher at CIES-Iscte.
She has carried out research in the area of public action in education and to support the development of regional and local educational policies, through consultancy in the development of regional strategic plans and educational charters, and in the area of public policy evaluation (projects). She also participates in monitoring and follow-up work on social and educational projects.
She is a member of Research Network 10 - Sociology of Education European Sociology of Education and Network 14 - Communities, Families, and Schooling in Educational Research of the European Educational Research Association. Since 2023, with Susana Batista (Nova FCSH) and Lia Pappámikail (ESE-Santarém), she has coordinated the Thematic Section “Sociology of Education” of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS).
ISUP-FLUP
ISUP-FLUP
Helena Vilaça has a PhD in sociology from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, where she is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology. She is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto. In 2011, she was a visiting professor at the University of Uppsala and, in 2017, she received a scholarship from the Fulbright “Religious Pluralism” Program in the USA. She was a member of the Council of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (2014-2021) and coordinates the Sociology of Religion section of the Portuguese Sociological Association. She is also the national coordinator of the EUREL project (Sociological and Legal Data on Religions in Europe) and editor of Sociologia - Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. Her publications include Da Torre de Babel às terras prometidas (2006); The Changing Soul of Europe: Religions and Migrations in Northern and Southern Europe (2014); A religião no espaço público português (2019).
Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Economia, CES
Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Economia, CES
Hermes Augusto Costa é sociólogo, professor Associado com Agregação da Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra (FEUC) e investigador do Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES). Desde 2008/09, É cocoordenador do Programa de Doutoramento em Sociologia: Relações de Trabalho, Desigualdades Sociais e Sindicalismo. Atualmente subdiretor da FEUC. As suas principais áreas de investigação são os processos de globalização e regionalização do sindicalismo, os Conselhos de Empresa Europeus e as relações laborais.
IS-FLUP
IS-FLUP
Professor of Higher Education and Researcher. He is currently a Professor at ISLA - Polytechnic Institute of Management and Technology and an Integrated Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto, where he coordinates various research projects and networks, most notably RICOT - Research Network on Working Conditions and the Social Barometer Platform.
IS-UP/U.Porto
IS-UP/U.Porto
É Professora Catedrática do Departamento de Sociologia da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (FLUP) e Investigadora do Instituto de Sociologia (IS-UP).
Tem desenvolvido atividades de ensino-aprendizagem em diversas unidades curriculares do 1.º, 2.º e 3.º ciclos de estudos no Departamento de Sociologia da FLUP. Leciona igualmente no Doutoramento em Segurança e Saúde Ocupacional e no Programa Doutoral em Media Digitais, ambos na Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP).
A sua atividade de investigação tem-se centrado na problemática da violência doméstica e de género, envelhecimento, abuso de idosos, trabalho feminino e saúde ocupacional. É autora de vários livros, com destaque para os seguintes: Violência na Família. Uma abordagem Sociológica. Porto: Edições Afrontamento, que conta com duas edições (2004; 2010); Violência Doméstica e de Género: Uma abordagem multidisciplinar. Lisboa: Pactor (2018) (Coord.). É ainda autora de vários capítulos de livros e artigos científicos publicados em revistas nacionais e estrangeiras.
Tem participado e coordenado vários projetos de investigação de âmbito nacional e internacional. Coordenou, por exemplo, o projeto “HARMED - Socio-economic and health determinants of elder abuse” (2014-2020), "Cleaning in times of pandemic: between precariousness and health risks for cleaning service workers" (2022), financiados ambos pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). Atualmente é investigadora responsável na Unidade Orgânica, do projeto RESET – “Redesigning Equality and Scientific Excellence Together”, financiado pelo Programa H2020 da Comissão Europeia. Integra também as equipas de investigação dos projetos IQUAL_CAMPUS - Sistema conjunto de formacion Trasnfronteriza em Igualdad de Genero Laboral (Programa de Cooperación Interreg España-Portugal (POCTEP) (2024-2026) e “Erasmus+60 Cooperation Partnerships in higher education” (KA2).
Tem proferido inúmeras conferências em congressos científicos nacionais e internacionais e desenvolvido, de igual modo, atividade relevante de avaliação científica em revistas internacionais, mas também para a FCT. Neste âmbito, foi coordenadora do painel de Sociologia para atribuição de Bolsas de Doutoramento (2020, 2021 e 2022); Cocoordenadora do Comité de Acompanhamento das Infraestruturas de Investigação do Roteiro Nacional, domínio das Ciências Sociais e Humanidades (RNIE) (2019-2021); Avaliadora da Comissão de Avaliação dos Relatórios Científicos Finais de projetos IC&DT/área da Sociologia (2019-2023), membro do painel para a atribuição de Bolsas de Doutoramento em meio não académico (2023 e 2024). Integra ainda a lista de especialistas para a área da violência doméstica e de género da Comissão para a Cidadania e a Igualdade de Género (CIG).
É membro do Conselho Geral da Universidade do Porto, Presidente da Comissão de Ética da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto e diretora do Mestrado em Sociologia da mesma Faculdade. Foi subdiretora da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto entre 2016 e 2019.
PORDATA - FFMS; CSG - ISEG
PORDATA - FFMS; CSG - ISEG
Data analyst and project manager at Pordata-FFMS. Among the various projects I manage, I supervise and monitor the team that updates and maintains the databases on Portugal, the Regions and Europe. I also provide scientific advice on data analysis and the design of different dissemination formats such as infographics, books, reports and documentaries. I have a PhD in sociology from FEUC, a master's degree in sociology of health and a degree in sociology from ISCTE-IUL. Before joining FFMS in 2019, I was a researcher and project manager for 12 years. Of these, I highlight work on health and mental illness at LIGMH-NMS; psychopharmacologization, ethics and methodologies at CIIEM, or HIV and health promotion at CIES-ISCTE. Between 2008 and 2016, I was a guest assistant professor of Introduction to Social Sciences, Research Methodologies and Sociology of Health, among other 1st and 2nd cycle subjects, at the Egas Moniz Higher Education Cooperative.
ISEG-UL
ISEG-UL
Graduated in economic sociology (2009), associate professor at ISEG, researcher at SOCIUS/CSG, ISEG, University of Lisbon.
“Writing Sociology: Writing History”, Russian Sociological Review, 22, 2, Jun. 2023, 50-70.
Graça, J. C., Caiado, Jorge e Rita Gomes Correia, “On the values and attitudes of economics students in Portugal”, Revista de Sociologia e Política, 30, 21, Dez. 2022, 1-19.
“Werner Sombart: Um Estrangeiro na Tradição Sociológica?”, Revista Sociedade & Estado, 37, 1, Jan./Abr. 2022, 271-292.
Graça, J. C. e Rita Gomes Correia, “Em torno da pandemia. Factos, perceções e conjeturas”, Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise, 54, 2, Out. 2020, 139-158.
“Considerações acerca do tema 'desenvolvimento': Reflexão crítica socio-histórica e geopolítica”, Configurações - Revista de Sociologia, 35, Jun. 2020, 36-58.
Graça, J. C., Caiado, Jorge e Rita Gomes Correia, “Sociopolitical values, attitudes and behaviors of Portuguese economics students”, Sociologia: Problemas e Práticas, 92, Jan. 2020, 111-132.
“Manual de Sociologia Política”, Coimbra, Almedina, 2018.
FE/UALG
FE/UALG
Joao Filipe Marques holds a PhD in Sociology by the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales of Paris and a MA in Social Anthropology. He is Associate Professor (with habilitation) at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Algarve and integrated researcher at the Research Centre onTurism, Sustainability and Wellbeing (CinTurs; UAlg). Currently he is the Director of the Sociology Master Program and one of the coordinators of the Thematic Section on Sociology of Tourism of the Portuguese Sociological Association. He has been teaching Social Sciences and Sociological Theories since the 1990's and is main field of research has been the Sociology of Racism and Ethnicity. Recently is research interests shifted towards the sociology of tourism, leisure and travel and he has been teaching Sociology of Tourism in the Sociology Programs of the University of Algarve.
IPPorto
IPPorto
João Queirós is a sociologist. He has a degree and a doctorate from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Education of the Polytechnic of Porto and an Integrated Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto. At the Porto Polytechnic School of Education, he is also a Collaborating Researcher at inED - Center for Research and Innovation in Education. Since 2019, he has been the National Sub-coordinator of the PIAAC Project Group - Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (OECD). His teaching and research interests include social change and social and class recompositions, social and educational policies, local and regional development, community studies and adult education.
UM
UM
He joined the APS in 1988 (no. 411), while still a sociology student at the University of Porto, to attend the 1st Portuguese Sociology Congress. He joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Minho in 1990, and has not left since. He has also been a member of CECS (Center for Communication and Society Studies, based at the University of Minho) since 2020. He carried out his doctoral research on Portuguese local power (2005), and his reference work is the book that resulted from this thesis (Identities and Strategies in Portuguese Local Power, Edições Húmus/CICS). The central themes of his research are local power, local and regional development and European integration, as well as other related themes, often analyzed using tools from the so-called “Essex School” of discourse analysis. Some of this experience has occasionally been put at the service of research projects and planning initiatives.CITER-UCP / CEG-UAb
CITER-UCP / CEG-UAb
José Pereira Coutinho has a PhD in sociology (ISCTE-IUL) and is a member of UCP-CITER. His articles have been published in various journals, including Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Social Compass, Religions, Journal of Religion in Europe, Archives de sciences sociales des religions, Religião e Sociedade, Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais. His lines of research are mainly religiosity, Catholicism, youth, generations and religious transmission, focusing on quantitative and comparative approaches.
Professor Associado
Professor Associado
PhD in Sociology of Communication, Culture and Education by ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon. He is a associate professor in the Departement of History (ESPP/Iscte), integrated researcher, sub-director and cocoordinator of the Research Group Media and Culture at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte), He is a cocoordinator of the Art, Culture and Communication thematic section of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS). He was a permanent researcher at the Observatory on Cultural Activities (OAC, 1996 to 2013). He was president of the Working Group on Cultural Statistics of the Portugal Statistical Council (2006 to 2010). Coordinator or researcher on several research projects in the fields of museological studies, art and culture. He is Director of the Portuguese Observatory on Cultural Activities (OPAC) since its creation in December 2018.FEUC
FEUC
Lucas Brasil holds a BSc degree in Sociology and in Social Sciences from the University of Brasília (Brazil). He also holds a master's degree in Theory, History, and Criticism of Architecture and Urbanism from the same university and is currently pursuing his PhD in Sociology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). He is a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and has published and developed research related to urban imaginaries, public spaces in cities, urban planning, and urban ways of life. He is currently investigating future visions for the city under the contingency of the Anthropocene, discussing fractures between ways of life and the projects for these territories.
Luís Baptista is sociologist and Full Professor at the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH). He coordinates the PhD programme in Urban Studies, organized by the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH) and by the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL). He was Director of CESNOVA from 2010 to 2014. Since 2015, he is the Director of the research unit Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA). He has conducted several national and international research projects, funded by the European Union and national (Portuguese) organizations. His main work deals with public policies about urban renewal and global mobilities such as tourism.
ISCSP; CIES-IUL, ISCTE-IUL
ISCSP; CIES-IUL, ISCTE-IUL
Sociologist, with a degree and master's in Sociology (FLUP), PhD in Social Sciences from the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL) and Associate Professor at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ISCSP-UL). She has been a researcher at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology of the University Institute of Lisbon (CIES-Iscte) since 2008, where she has carried out research in the areas of studies on and with Gypsies/Roma, immigration, diversity and urban space, poverty and social exclusion, local development and social housing policies. He is also a collaborating member of the Institute of Sociology of the Faculty of Letters of Porto (ISFLUP) and CAPP (Center for Administration and Public Policies of ISCSP-ULisboa).
ISCTE IUL
ISCTE IUL
Mara Clemente is a sociologist with a PhD from Sapienza, University of Rome. She did her post-doctorate at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (CIES-Iscte), where she is currently an integrated researcher. She has a track record of international research on issues involving gender and sexuality and different forms of mobility - from short-term movements for leisure purposes to labor migrations, including the phenomena of refuge and human trafficking. Her research interests include the citizenship experiences of marginalized and stigmatized individuals and groups. She is the author of publications in international and national scientific journals, such as Social and Legal Studies, Dialectical Anthropology, International Review of Sociology, SOCIOLOGIA ON LINE. She is the co-author of the book The Immobility Turn Mobility, Migration and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2023), published by Bristol University Press.
Universidade da Beira Interior
Universidade da Beira Interior
Márcia Silva is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Beira Interior and a researcher at the Center for Communication and Society Studies. With a PhD in Sociology, she has participated in various research projects on Cities and Mobility (Tourism, Sustainable Urban Mobility and School Mobility), organizations and work (governance and entrepreneurship) and technology (digital inclusion, social inequalities and ethics). Participation in various research projects has resulted in several national and international publications.
Dinâmia’CET, ISCTE-IUL
Dinâmia’CET, ISCTE-IUL
Margarida Perestrelo, retired Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Research Methods at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-ISCTE-IUL. PhD in Sociology, specializing in Sociological Theories and Methods. Her research areas are Data Analysis applied to the Social Sciences and Foresight Methodologies applied to Territory, Structural Analysis, Subsystem Analysis, Strategic Analysis of Actors and Cenarization. Author of many publications, she has been involved in multiple research projects in Territorial Foresight.
GOVCOPP/U. Aveiro
GOVCOPP/U. Aveiro
She has a degree in Sociology from the University of Évora and a PhD in Sociology, specializing in Demography, from the New University of Lisbon.
She was a lecturer at the Catholic University - Viseu Regional Center from 1989 to 2004. She has been a member of the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro since 2004. She teaches and researches in the areas of demography, population policies and gerontology.
She is a member of the Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies Research Unit at the University of Aveiro. She is Vice-President of the General Assembly of the APD, a member of the board of AIDELF and a member of the Scientific Council of INED.
She was a member of the research team for the following projects: “Portugal: Regional Integration of Demography and Economy” (P-RIDE) [PTDC/ATP-DEM/0441/](2020); “Migration and demographic sustainability” funded by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation (October 2015-December 2016). “Costs and benefits, on a local scale, of dispersed occupation”, FCT: PTDC/AUR/64086/2006; DONUT - Determinants of Housing Demand in Portugal FCT: PTDC/AUR-URB/100592/2008; DEMOSPIN - Economically sustainable demography - Reversing decline in peripheral areas FCT: PTDC/CS-DEM/100530/2008; Demographic dynamics and ageing of the Portuguese population: evolution and prospects - ICS/Instituto do envelhecimento project funded by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation.
Universidade de Évora. CICS.NOVA
Universidade de Évora. CICS.NOVA
Maria da Saudade Baltazar is an associate professor at the University of Évora (School of Social Sciences | Sociology Department) and a researcher of Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences | CICS.NOVA .UÉvora
FLUP/IS-UP
FLUP/IS-UP
Professor at the Sociology Department, Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto (FLUP).
Integrated Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto (IS-UP). Research Group: "Social Recompositions, Culture and Territory", Sub-Research Group "Artistic Creation, Cultural Practices and Policies".
PhD, MA and BA in Sociology at FLUP (2007, 1997 and 1992).
Main research areas and activities: Culture and Arts. Cultural and Artistic Practices (Creation, Reception and Mediation). Cultural Policies (european, national and local level). Tourism: Policies, Practices and Processes. Education, Arts and Social Inclusion. Diagnosis, Monitoring and Evaluation of Social Intervention Programs and Projects.
Co-coordination of the Thematic Section on Sociology of Tourism (since 2018) and the Thematic Area on Sociology of Tourism (2014-2018).
ICS-UL
ICS-UL
Nina Amelung completed her PhD in Sociology in 2018/01, Technische Universität Berlin, with a thesis entitled “Democracy Under Construction: The Micro-politics of Ordering Transnational Citizen Engagement”, and a Master in Social Sciences (Diplom) in 2007/01, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. She worked in prestigious research projects under the lead of excellent scholars and in high potential teams such as the “Innovation in Governance” research project funded by the German Ministry for Research and Education at the Institute of Sociology, Technical University of Berlin and the ERC-funded research project EXCHANGE (first based at CES Coimbra, later at ICS/CECS/University of Minho. Currently, she is a junior research fellow, postdoctoral scholar, at ICS integrated in the research groups, DIVERSIDADES and LIFE, as well as in the MIGRATION HUB. Her ongoing project entitled “Affected (non)publics: Social and political implications of transnational biometric databases in migration and crime control (AFFECT)” (2020 - 2026) (FCT CEECIND/03611/ 2018/CP1541/CT0009) explores the social and political implications of growing database infrastructures at the intersection of migration and crime control – on understanding affected publics. She spent visiting research stays at SCORE, University of Stockholm; NOVA School of Science and Technology, FCT NOVA and CICS.NOVA (former CESNOVA), both at Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Institute of Sociology, University of Gothenburg; and at the European New School of Digital Studies, Viadrina University of Frankfurt/Oder. In 2024, she will be visiting scholar at Käte Hamburger Center "Cultures of Research", RWTH Aachen. She published 5 single-authored articles and book chapters; in total she published 16 journal articles and 9 book chapters, 4 co-edited special issues as first editor, 1 co-authored monograph, 2 co-edited volumes. She is co-founder and co-chair of the independent research network STS-MIGTEC. She co-initiated the successful funding of the COST ACTION DATAMIG, in which she is now part of the Management Committee, Core Group, and working group leader of the “Laboratory”, 1 out of 3 working groups. Since 2023 she co-coordinates the Knowledge, Science and Technology section of the Portuguese Association of Sociology.
Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais e Segurança Interna. ICPOL
Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais e Segurança Interna. ICPOL
Nuno Poiares is a law and police sciences graduate from the Higher Institute of Police Sciences and Internal Security (Lisbon), with a MSc (U. Evora) and a PhD (ISCTE-IUL) in Sociology. He has a postdoc in Human Rights (U. Coimbra) and a MSc in Criminal Law (U. Lisbon).Universidade Aberta & CIES-Iscte
Universidade Aberta & CIES-Iscte
Olga Magano is a sociologist and assistant professor at the Universidade Aberta, Department of Social Sciences and Management. She has a PhD in Sociology and a master's degree in Intercultural Relations from Universidade Aberta. She has a degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto. She is an integrated researcher at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte), University Institute of Lisbon and a collaborating researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto and the Center for Global Studies of the Open University. She is also a member of the Observatory of the Professional and Life Paths of Graduates of the Universidade Aberta. She has carried out research, among other areas, on gypsies in Portugal, migrations, refugees, racism, xenophobia, cultural diversities, social inequalities, identities, mestizaje and spatial and social segregation, life paths and professional and social mobility.
CIES-ISCTE
CIES-ISCTE
Otávio Raposo holds a degree in Sociology from the Nova University Lisbon and a PhD in anthropology from the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL). He is a researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology and an invited professor in the Social Research Methods department at ISCTE-IUL. He was a visiting scholar in the USA (Brown University and University of Massachusetts Boston), and Brazil (UFRJ and USP). He is the author and editor of several international publications in urban studies, youth cultures, arts, African diaspora, segregation, and racism, with ethnography as the main approach. He is currently addressing the artistic practices of young people from the outskirts, and the public policies addressed to them, coordinating the PERICREATIVITY project. He is the director of several ethnographic films, including “At Quinta with Kally”, winner of the Portuguese Anthropological Association awards in 2019.
CES, Universidade de Coimbra
CES, Universidade de Coimbra
She is a researcher at CES-UC, as part of Thematic Line 2 - Democracy, justice and human rights. She is a researcher contracted under the Scientific Employment Stimulus Program (CEECIND/00126/2017: 2019-2025), with the project “FORK. Food, Regulation, Kinship: considerations on contemporary law, families and parenthood through the lenses of food”. She holds a PhD in Sociology of Law, within the scope of the “Law, Justice and Citizenship in the 21st Century” program, from the University of Coimbra, with the thesis “The Courts as spaces of recognition, functionality and access to justice - the case study of the Family and Children's Courts in Portugal”. She is a Former Fellow of the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Recht als Kultur/Law as Culture”, at the University of Bonn, Germany. Her research interests and publications focus on the issue of judicial architecture and the spaces of justice(ies); the changes in family, child and youth law, and their relationship with the issues of gender and juvenile delinquency and crime; the relationship between law and the humanities; and, more recently, the relationship between food and law
FE-UAlg
FE-UAlg
Patrícia Coelho has a degree in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL (1999), a Master's and a PhD in Sociology from the University of the Algarve (2014, 2019). She is a visiting assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of the Algarve, where she teaches the Sociology of the Family and the Sociology of Ageing courses in the Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Sociology. She has also been a senior technician at the Municipality of Faro since 1999. Her main research interests are the well-being and quality of life of elderly and very elderly people, with an emphasis on the life course perspective and the role of interconnected lives with family members. 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.
FEUC
FEUC
Paula Abreu has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Coimbra. She is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC), and a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the same university (CES-UC), as part of the thematic line Urban cultures, sociability and participation. In this context, she is currently a researcher on the projects IN SITU - Place-based innovation of cultural and creative industries in non-urban areas (2022-2026) (https://insituculture.eu/) and CONCILIARE - Confidently Changing Colonial Heritage (2024-2027), both funded by the European Commission.
Research interests focused on cultural production and consumption and the markets for cultural goods; organisations, cultural ecosystems and cultural policies; valuation processes in the fields of culture.
ISCSP-Ulisboa
ISCSP-Ulisboa
Paula Campos Pinto has a PhD in Sociology from the University of York. Associate Professor at the Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon, she founded and coordinates the Disability and Human Rights Observatory which operates at this institution, with the aim of monitoring public policies in the area of disability, as well as promoting information, training and research on the human rights of people with disabilities.
She has coordinated several national and international projects on issues related to the human rights of people with disabilities and the evaluation of public policies, including from a gender perspective. She is the author of several publications on these topics.
CECS-UM
CECS-UM
Rafaela Granja holds a PhD in Sociology (2015) from the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho. She is a researcher at Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) of the same university. Her research interests lie at the intersection of sociology of crime and justice and social studies of science and technology and deal with the technological surveillance of criminalized populations at different stages of the criminal justice system, namely: criminal investigations, electronic monitoring and imprisonment. Granja is currently the Principal Investigator of the research project E-MONITORING, Electronic monitoring in the criminal justice system: Projected futures and lived experiences (ref. 2023.00030.RESTART) funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Her most recent publications include the books Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control (Routledge, 2022), Modes of Bio-Bordering: The Hidden (Dis)Integration of Europe (Palgrave, 2021), Forensic Genetics in the Governance of Crime (Palgrave, 2020).
ICS-ULisboa
ICS-ULisboa
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.
UÉvora
UÉvora
Rosalina Pisco Costa has a PhD in Social Sciences, specializing in “General Sociology”, since 2011. She is an associate professor at the University of Évora and a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences in Évora (CICS.NOVA.UÉvora). Her research covers a wide range of topics related to families, gender and personal life; childhood and youth; studies of everyday life, mobility and consumption; social time and life stages; ritualization, memory and family aesthetics. 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.
Universidade Católica e Universidade da Beira Interior
Universidade Católica e Universidade da Beira Interior
Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Beira Interior and Visiting Assistant Professor at Católica Porto Business School. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, a Master's degree from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto and a degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto.
CIES-Iscte, Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
CIES-Iscte, Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Sandra Palma Saleiro, APS member no. 878, has a degree and PhD in Sociology from Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. She is an integrated researcher at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES, Iscte), in the Gender, Life Course and Health Research Group, and an invited assistant professor at Iscte. She works in the field of gender, transgender, diversity, gender identity and equality and the evaluation of public projects and policies.
CIES-IUL
CIES-IUL
Sara Franco da Silva is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (FCT scholarship holder) and is developing her research on “Decent work and social inequalities in the digital society” from a comparative perspective between Portugal and Europe. She completed a Master's degree in Labor Sciences and Labor Relations and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology at the same institution, and in 2023 she completed a postgraduate course in Data Analysis in Social Sciences. She is a guest assistant at Iscte's Transversal Skills Laboratory and Sociology Department. She has been part of teams in various research projects at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-ISCTE) and ICS-University of Lisbon, applying quantitative and qualitative methodologies in thematic fields such as social inequalities, well-being, work-family reconciliation, decent work, territories and social cohesion.
CES-FEUC
CES-FEUC
Sílvia Ferreira is assistant professor in Sociology at the Faculty of Economics of Coimbra University, researcher at the Centre for Social Studies and at the Center for Cooperative and Social Economy Studies of the Faculty of Economics.
She lectures at undergraduate and at graduate levels in the Sociology degree, master in Sociology, master in Society, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and in the Post-Graduation in Social Economy. She is co-coordinator of the master in Society, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
She holds a PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University (UK). BA and Master in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra.
She has been involved in research on social security reform, third sector and social policy, gender equality in third sector organisations, social entrepreneurship and social innovation in the social and solidarity economy, social enterprises, volunteering and local governance through state/third sector partnerships. Her basic interest has been the evolving nature of the welfare state and of the welfare mixes, from a sociological standpoint based on complex social systems approaches.
She recently concluded the project TIMES – Institutional Trajectories and Models of Social Enterprise in Portugal (FCT/COMPETE, as well as the COST Action EMPOWER-SE – Empowering the Next Generation of Social Enterprise Scholars (European Commission).
She is board member of EMES – International Research Network.
University of Warwick
University of Warwick
Silvia Gomes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick (UK) and a member of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the same university. She has a PhD in Sociology from the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho (Portugal), is currently co-coordinator of the Thematic Section on the Sociology of Law and Justice of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS) and a member of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) and the British Society of Criminology (BSC). Author of several books, book chapters and articles in scientific journals, her main areas of research are prison studies, crime and social inequalities, intersectional approaches, crime and the media, and, more recently, critical studies of reentry, recidivism and criminal desistance. Other publications include the books: Female Crime and Delinquency in Portugal: In and Out of the Criminal Justice System (Palgrave, 2018), Prisons, State and Violence (Springer, 2019), Incarceration and Generation, volumes 1 and 2 (Palgrave, 2021, 2022), Gender, Prison and Reentry Experiences: A Matter of Time (Routledge, 2024).
She has a PhD in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid and is an assistant researcher at CIES-Iscte, Lisbon. She has coordinated several projects on binational couples, transnational families and privileged migrations (Golden Visas, Non-Habitual Residents) in Portugal. She is currently the national coordinator of the AspirE project, “Decision making of aspiring (re)migrants to/within the EU: The case of labor market-leading migrations from Asia”, as part of the European HORIZON projects, funded by the EC. The projects she has coordinated have resulted in several articles published in national and international journals such as International Migration; Population, Space and Place; Journal of Ethnics and Migration Studies; Journal of Chinese Overseas; Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education; and Portuguese Journal of Social Science. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Coordinating Team of the Thematic Section Migration, Ethnicity and Racism of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS).
NOVA FCSH - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
NOVA FCSH - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Susana Batista is a sociologist, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Autonomous Section of Education and Training at NOVA FCSH and an integrated researcher at CICS.NOVA.
She has carried out research in the area of public action in education, including participation in the ESCXEL Project - School of Excellence Network and in various consultancy projects for local councils on the construction and monitoring of Strategic Education Plans. She also works on issues related to young people and the media, namely in terms of citizenship and digital skills, particularly through her participation in the European ySKILLS (youth Skills) project and the Portuguese EU Kids Online team.
Since 2023, together with Eva Gonçalves (Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) and Lia Pappámikail (ESE-Santarém), she has coordinated the “Sociology of Education” Thematic Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS).
ISUP
ISUP
PhD in Sociology from the University of Porto - Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She has a degree in Sociology from the same faculty and a master's degree from the University of Coimbra (Faculty of Economics). Almost two decades' experience as a teacher and trainer in higher and secondary education. She teaches at the School of Education of the Polytechnic of Porto and at the School of Sport and Education of the Jean Piaget Polytechnic of the North. She directed the Jean Piaget School of Education in Vila Nova de Gaia/Porto and coordinated the higher courses in Social Education and Sociocultural Animation. Researcher in several research projects, being currently researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto. Experience as a sociologist and consultant, including participation in various diagnostic, planning and evaluation studies, in particular work on territorial development and under the Erasmus+ Programme, in the areas of social intervention and education. She has a special interest in the areas of sociology of culture and art, education, development and social cohesion. She has scientific publications, as author and co-author, in these fields.
CICS.NOVA.UMInho
CICS.NOVA.UMInho
Teresa Mora holds a degree in Sociology from ISCTE and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Minho. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho and a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences – a hub at the University of Minho. He teaches in various areas of social sciences, including urban sociology and art and culture. He has developed research work and published in social theory and utopian studies, artistic practices, cultural and civic participation. She is a collaborator at Passeio - Platform for Urban Art and Culture. She is currently part of the International Presence Studies Network, in the “Performance and Poverty” Project team.
FLUP / IS-UP
FLUP / IS-UP
PhD research fellow Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto Sociology
Research fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto (IS-UP)
Member of the coordinating team of the Sociology of Religion Research Network of the Portuguese Sociology Association (APS)
Universidade da Maia / CICS.NOVA, Universidade do Minho
Universidade da Maia / CICS.NOVA, Universidade do Minho
Vera Duarte. Sociologist, PhD in Sociology (2011) from the University of Minho, with an FCT-funded project on female juvenile delinquency. She has been a teacher since 2001 and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Maia (UMAIA). Her teaching activity began at the University of Minho and the Portuguese Catholic University and, since 2011, she has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Maia (UMAIA, Portugal). She is an integrated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies, Institute of Social and Political Sciences (CIEG, ISCSP, Portugal) and a collaborating researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA). Since the beginning of her career, she has held academic management positions in the different Higher Education Institutions where she has worked. At the University of Maia she was a member of the Board of the UICCC (2012-2020), a member of the Ethics Committee (2018-2021) and the Scientific Council (2021...), and is currently coordinator of the Master's Degree in Criminology at UMAIA.
Her teaching, scientific production and research work has predominantly been in the areas of the sociology of crime and marginalization, with a focus on juvenile delinquency, female criminality, the juvenile justice system, violence and qualitative methodologies. On these topics, she is the author of several books, book chapters and articles in scientific journals; participates in and organizes (inter)national scientific meetings; coordinates national projects and is part of scientific research teams for other projects; and provides training for professionals in the field of juvenile justice.
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