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She holds a PhD in Sociology with a thesis on religious pluralism in Portuguese society and is a professor at the University of Porto School of Arts and Humanities.
She is a member of the executive committee of the Sociology department at this school and a researcher at the university, taking part in projects such as the EUREL project, which provides sociological and legal data on religion in Europe.
She studies the revitalisation of local churches in Europe, particularly in Portugal, and online religious expression.
She also researches issues related to legislation on religious freedom, new forms of religion and Catholicism in Portugal, religious minorities and Protestant and evangelical communities.
She has lectured at Uppsala University, Sweden, and was elected a member of the Council of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion.

Last updated: December 2018

PhD in Child Studies, specialising in Sociology of Childhood. Researcher at the Prochild CoLAB against Poverty and Social Exclusion. External consulting member of CIEC, University of Minho. Her research focuses on children's rights, participation, public policies with an emphasis on child poverty and children's relationship with urban space, among others. She is co-coordinator of the Sociology of Childhood section of the Portuguese Sociological Association and works with the child poverty working group in the Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN).

He has a PhD in Social Work, specialising in Social Policy and Social Movements. He is an associate professor at the Catholic University of Portugal School of Social Sciences and a researcher at the Católica Research Centre for Individual, Family and Social Well-Being. He is a member of the European Social Work Research Association's Social Work, History and Research and Social Work and Policy Practice research groups. His research focuses on poverty studies and public policies, especially citizenship social protection policies and social minimums. He participated as a researcher in the Adequate Income in Portugal project.

Last update. May 2021

He currently works as an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department of the University of Minho Institute of Social Sciences and is also an integrated researcher at CICS.Nova at the University of Minho.
Recently, he was part of the research team for the project "Poverty in Portugal: Trajectories and daily life", funded by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos and coordinated by Fernando Diogo (University of the Azores).
Capitalism and development, urban issues such as housing and lifestyles and academic success are some of his main research topics, on which he has published several books and articles in national and foreign magazines.
He has a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, and an aggregate degree in Sociology from Nova University Lisbon.

Last updated: October 2021

Social scientist, assistant professor at the University of Lisbon Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP) and researcher at the Centre for Administration and Public Policy (CAPP), where she coordinates the Society, Communication and Culture research group. She teaches on the undergraduate degree in Social Work and the Master's degree and PhD programmes in Social Policy at ISCSP. She was executive coordinator of the Master's degree course in Social Policy. Her research interests lie in the areas of welfare and social policy, focusing in particular on poverty, income adequacy and minimum income policies.

A sociologist with a PhD in Sociology of Education, she is an assistant professor in the Sociology department at the University of the Azores and a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS.Nova.UAçores and CICS.UAc). Her main research interests focus on the sociology of childhood and the sociology of education. She has carried out various research projects and published on the relationship between young people and education and the world of work.

She has a Bachelor's degree in Translation and Interpreting from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a postgraduate degree in Marketing Management and Consumer Research from the Open University of Catalonia. She is a member of the PRM Market Intelligence team that produced the study "Women in Portugal today".

Last updated: November 2023

He was born in Lleida in 1972. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Barcelona and a postgraduate degree in International Marketing from INSEAD Business School. He has 20 years' experience in market intelligence, both professionally and in the teaching field. He has been the Managing Partner of PRM since 2015.

Last updated: November 2021

He holds a PhD in War Studies from King's College and a Master’s degree in Contemporary History from the University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities. He was deputy director of the Centre for International Studies at Iscte-IUL, where he teaches and directs the PhD in History and Security and Defence Studies, in partnership with the Military Academy. He was deputy to the Minister of National Defence (2019-2022). He is a guest professor at the Institute of Political Studies at UCP and, in the 2024-25 academic year, he will be a FLAD guest professor at Georgetown University in Washington. He has published several articles and books, including the essay "Can Portugal have a Strategy?" (2019) published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: June 2024

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.