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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

Assistant researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Nova University Lisbon (1984) and has a PhD in Sociology from Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (1999). He was a member of the ICS Board of Directors (1998-2004) and a member of the board of the Portuguese Sociological Association (2000-2002). He has worked on the themes of identities, values and ways of life. His main research projects are currently the study of Portuguese sexuality in the context of AIDS and a survey on the sources of sexual education of Portuguese young people.

Last updated: March 2022

Emeritus researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences. He was Director of the National Library and twice Vice-Rector of the University of Lisbon. With a Bachelor’s degree and PhD in History (Paris), he was a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and held the Chair of Portuguese History at King's College, London.

Last updated: March 2022

PhD in Sociology, ISCTE-IUL.

Last updated: March 2022

Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Évora and member of CIDEHUS-UÉ. She has a PhD in Sociology and teaches Demography on undergraduate and Master’s courses. She has coordinated a number of research projects in the areas of Demography and Sociology and she has published several papers in these scientific fields.

Last updated: March 2022

She got her PhD in Sociology from the University of Évora in 2015, she has a Master's degree in Statistical Modelling and Data Analysis from the University of Évora and a Master's degree in Demography from the University of Lund, European Doctoral School of Demography. With a specialisation in Demography, her research focuses on fertility and the transition to parenthood. She is a member of CIDEHUS-UÉ.

Last updated: March 2022

She holds a PhD in Demography from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is an assistant researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (CEEC Individual), and a visiting assistant professor at the Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences. She is the coordinator of the PhD in Population Sciences (ULisboa) at the ICS and a member of the Scientific Committee. Her research focuses on the demography of housing, demographic ageing and, more recently, the study of Portuguese emigration to the USA.

Last updated: January 2025

He was a founding member of the Portuguese Demographic Association (APD) and was Chairman of the APD Board for the first decade of the Association's activity. He was responsible for organising the first three Portuguese Demography Congresses. He was coordinator of the Master's Degree in Demography and Population Sociology at ISCTE and taught Demography for several decades.

Last updated: March 2022

Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon Higher Institute of Economics and Management (ISEG/ULisboa). PhD in Economics from the University of York, UK. Chief of Staff to Prime Minister António Costa.

Last updated: March 2022