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Associate Professor and President of the Pedagogical Council of the Nova School of Business and Economics at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She has published research in academic journals such as the «Journal of International Economics», the «Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control», the «European Economic Review and the Economics of Education Review». She is the coordinator of the project «Determinants of school effectiveness: learning from the microdata of the Portuguese education system» with FCT funding under the 2014 call for scientific research projects. Previously, she had also coordinated the project «Efficiency of the education system and the evaluation and accountability system», also funded by the FCT.
She has a degree and PhD in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

He holds a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Bath (UK) and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at ISEG, the Higher Institute of Economics and Management of the University of Lisbon, and a Researcher at SOCIUS, the Centre for Research in Economic and Organisational Sociology. Previously, he worked as a researcher at Trinity College Dublin and Oslo Metropolitan University. Having specialised in social policies, particularly pension systems and minimum income programmes, he has published work in international publishing houses such as Oxford University Press and Policy Press, as well as in international specialist journals – such as «Social Policy & Administration, the European Journal of Social Security», the «Journal of Population Aging» and the «European Journal of Ageing». He coordinated the study on the «Sustainability of the Portuguese Pension System» for the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.


Last updated: June 2022

Geographer, PhD in human geography and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), where he works on the integrated master's and PhD courses.
He is also a researcher at FAUP's Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies (CEAU). He has published extensively, including «Transgenic Landscapes» (Landscape Museum 2021), «Tour of Portugal» (Contraponto, Lisbon, 2017), «Common Home Territory» (with N. Travasso, FAUP, Porto, 2015), «The Street of the Road» (Dafne, Porto, 2010), «Country Life» (Dafne, Porto, 2012) and «Urban Policies I and II» (with N. Portas and J. Cabral, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2003 and 2011) and «City and Democracy» (Argumentum, Lisbon, 2006). He writes regularly for the newspaper «Público».
He has a PhD in Human Geography from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.

Last updated: September 2022

Alice Ramos has a PhD in Social Sciences from Instituto de Ciências Sociais-Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa), with the thesis «Human Values and Opposition towards Immigration in Europe», where she analyses the impact of individual factors and social contexts on attitudes towards immigrants, on threat perceptions and on racial prejudice.
Currently, she is research fellow at the ICS-ULisboa. Her research interests are on the intersection of two lines of study: a) the impact of the articulation between individual factors (values and attitudes) and social structures on the development of discriminatory attitudes and prejudice, in a multilevel perspective; b) methodologies of trans-national and longitudinal studies. She recently started a line of research on the development of values and discriminatory attitudes in childhood and adolescence.
She is National Coordinator of the European Social Survey-ERIC and the European Values Study. At ICS-ULisboa, in 2009, she was co-founder of the Summer School on Advanced Methods in Data Analysis; between 2021 and 2023 she was a member of the Ethics Committee; currently, she is president of the Pedagogical Council and the Postgraduate Studies Committee.

Last update: June 2024

Isabel Horta Correia is currently a professor at the Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics at UCP. She developed her research career for almost 30 years at the Economic Studies Department of the Banco de Portugal, which she directed for 5 years.
Her general area of interest is Macroeconomics, namely in the subareas of economic cycles, monetary economics, optimal fiscal and monetary policies, and redistributive impacts of economic policy.
Isabel’s work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the European Economic Review.
She was a research reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a member of the evaluation panels for the European Research Council's Advanced Grants. She was also a member of the European Economic Association Council; of the Portuguese Catholic University’s Scientific Society; of the Scientific Advisory Board of CREI – Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional, and of the European University Institute's Research Council.
She is currently a correspondent for the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research and the European Economic Association.

Last updated: October 2023

Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Nova University Lisbon (FCSH/UNL), she has a PhD in Sociology, specialising in Demography. She was director of PORDATA – Database of Contemporary Portugal, a project of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, where she also coordinated the scientific area of Population. She has held management positions in various public bodies in the Ministries of Education and Science, Technology and Higher Education. She is a member of the Statistical Council and a member of the Executive Board of the European Statistical Advisory Committee. She is the author and coordinator of numerous published studies on Portuguese society, including "Portugal and Europe: the numbers", "Ageing of Portuguese Society", "Immigrant contributions to Portuguese demography: the role of foreign nationality populations" and "Being born in Portugal" (multimedia work), among others.

Last updated: February 2019

He holds a PhD in sociology, specialising in the sociology of education, culture and communication, from ISCTE-IUL, Portugal (2006). He is currently Postgraduate Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He is also Coordinator of the LIFE research group – Life Paths, Inequalities and Solidarities, and Vice-Coordinator of the Permanent Youth Observatory. As well as publishing regularly in national and international scientific journals on youth issues, he is the author/editor of books such as Millennial Generation? A Social and Political Portrait (2017), Researching Young People: Methodological Paths and Challenges (2017) and Youth(s) From the Local to the National – What Intervention? (2019). His most recent research has focused on the conditions enabling the emergence of «new dream professions» within the aspirational and professional integration patterns of younger generations; on how generational categories have gained prominence as symbolic devices for identifying and enunciating social inequalities in the post-crisis conjuncture; and on new and old forms of action and political production by/for and with young people.

Last updated: November 2021

Researcher at CoLABOR – Social Protection/Economy and Solidarity. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL and a Master's degree in Bioethics from the University of Lisbon School of Medicine. She has a postgraduate degree in Sociology of Health and Illness, as well as in Data Analysis in Social Sciences, from ISCTE-IUL. She has advanced training in Applied Project Management from Nova SBE, in Bioethics from the Yale Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioethics and in English Language and Culture from the Oxford Royale Academy.

Last updated: March 2022

Researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Ageing.

Last updated: March 2022

Assistant Researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology (1999), a Postgraduate Diploma in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies (2001) and a PhD in Sociology (2010) from ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon. His current research interests focus on the Sociology of Health and Medicine, the Sociology of Ageing and the Sociology of Communication and Mass Media. He has carried out studies on access to, assessment of and attitudes towards the Health System in Portugal and on behaviour and attitudes towards therapeutic adherence; he has also studied how health and the Health System are represented in the Portuguese media, as well as access to and use of information sources for health literacy. Population ageing is another area of research that he has devoted himself to in recent years, particularly on aspects related to health, well-being and quality of life.

Last updated: March 2022