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Sociologist, PhD in Social Sciences, specialising in Development Sociology. He is an associate professor at the University of the Azores and a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS.Nova.UAçores and CICS.UAc). His research focuses on the themes of poverty, the RSI and child poverty, among others. He is director of the Master's degree in Social Policies and Regional Dynamics and co-coordinator of the Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policies section of the Portuguese Sociological Association. He works with the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) and was a co-author of the Regional Strategy to Combat Poverty in the Azores. He is a member of the region's Economic and Social Council.

Last updated: April 2021

He has a PhD in Economics from Birkbeck, University of London and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Coimbra. He is the author or coordinator of eight books on the Portuguese economy and has published articles in international scientific journals. He has worked as a consultant for public and private organisations, including the European Commission, the Portuguese Government, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Court of Auditors, the Portuguese Business Confederation (CIP), the Portuguese Insurance Association and the Porto Commercial Association. He is a member of the panel of commentators on RTP3's 360º programme and works regularly with the media.

Last updated: April 2024

She holds a PhD in Geography and Spatial Planning and she is a principal investigator at the Centre for Geographical Studies and a professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning at the University of Lisbon. Her interests focus on sustainable urban development, regional, urban and local planning, urban geography and the evaluation of public policies. She has taught Public Policy Assessment Methodologies and Spatial Planning on undergraduate and Master’s degree courses.

Last updated: November 2023

She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Minho and a Master’s degree in Social Psychology from the University of Coimbra. She is a researcher at the Centre for Social Research and Intervention (CIS, ISCTE-IUL) and the Centre for Research in Economic and Organisational Sociology (SOCIUS/CSG – ISEG) at the University of Lisbon.
She is a member of the INHERIT team, a European project that aims to contribute to academic and social reflection on ageing, social inequalities and health, stimulating policies, practices and innovations that promote change in these areas.
In her PhD project, she focused on the health and well-being of the ageing population in Portugal and Europe. As a guest researcher, she worked with the Centre of Welfare Studies in Slovenia, the European Data Laboratory for Comparative Social Research and the Munich Centre for the Economics of Ageing, both in Germany. She was also involved in the European Education Policies project, focusing on the process of lifelong learning and developed by the Education and Development Research Unit at Nova University Lisbon. She also works with the Inequalities Observatory.

PhD in Anthropology from ICS-UL. Lecturer in the Anthropology department at ISCTE-IUL. Her most recent works include «Mulheres Condenadas. Histórias de Dentro da Prisão» (Tinta-da-China), «Peripheral Vision: Politics, Technology and Surveillance» (Berghahn), «Vigilância e Poder» (Mundos Sociais) and «A Sociedade Vigilante: Ensaios sobre Identificação, Vigilância e Privacidade» (Imprensa de Ciências Sociais).

Last updated: January 2020

An economist and Associate Professor at the Higher Institute of Economics and Management (ISEG). He is a consultant at the National Statistics Institute (INE) in the area of household statistics.
His research focuses on microeconomics, income distribution, poverty and inequality, and public policy evaluation. He is the author of several studies on poverty and inequality in Portugal, as well as on the effectiveness of social policies.
He was President of the Institute of Public Policy from 2015 to 2020. He was a member of the Coordination Committee for drawing up the National Strategy to Fight Poverty.
He holds a PhD from the Technical University of Lisbon under the supervision of Tony Atkinson (Oxford University), with the thesis «Income Distribution, Inequality and Poverty: Portugal in the 1990s».

She got her PhD in Sociology from the University of Évora in 2015 and a Master's degree in Sociology from the same university. Her area of specialisation is demography, and her research focuses on fertility, studying the ideal family size, fertility intentions in the short term and throughout people’s lives. She is an integrated member of CIDEHUS-UÉ.

She has a PhD in Sociology and she is a full professor and coordinator of the Sociology Unit at the University of Lisbon Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP). She founded and now runs the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (CIEG) at ISCSP. She has been a member of the team responsible for implementing the European Social Survey in Portugal since 2002.
She is an expert on subjects such as gender, family, marriage, divorce, work/family relations, the protection of children and young people, moral and sexual harassment and has set up several Master’s and postgraduate courses in these areas. Her research has served as the basis for legislative changes, such as the amendment to the divorce law or the changes relating to moral and sexual harassment.

She has been part of several international research networks under Framework Programmes 6, 7 and the European Commission's Horizon 2020. She was President of the Portuguese Sociological Association (2002-2006) and the European Sociological Association (2009-2011). She was on the European Research Council’s Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour evaluation panel and has held a number of positions in the International Sociological Association. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Higher Education Assessment and Accreditation Agency (A3ES) since 2020.

Last updated: May 2023

PhD in Mathematics from the University of Évora in 2010. Her area of specialisation is Sampling and Sampling in Animal Populations, but she has also published works on Statistical Modelling. She is a lecturer in the Mathematics department, an integrated member of the Research Centre for Mathematics and Applications and Director of the Master's Degree in Statistical Modelling and Data Analysis at the University of Évora.

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.