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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

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 Barcelona in 1976. He has a Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Barcelona and a Bachelor’s degree in Market Research and Techniques from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). He has been on the PRM team for 17 years.

Last updated: November 2021

She was born in Barcelona in 1972. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Sciences and a Bachelor’s degree in Market Research and Techniques from the University of Barcelona. She has taught market research on courses and Master's degree programmes at the University of Barcelona and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She has been with PRM for 25 years and is currently senior project manager.

Last updated: November 2021

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

With a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business Sciences from the University of Barcelona, she has worked for over 25 years in market intelligence, an analysis tool for strategic decision-making, both as a consultant and in university teaching.
She is responsible for the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos study, "Women in Portugal today: who they are, what they think and how they feel", an investigation based on surveys of women about their aspirations, personal, family, professional and social life, conducted by a multidisciplinary team, bringing together analysts from the Spanish consultancy firm PRM – Market Intelligence and Portuguese specialists in studies on the female gender. In 2021, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos launched the study "Young people in Portugal today: who they are, what they think and what they feel", which she was also responsible for. Over the years, she has led projects in various sectors at PRM, from finance to telecommunications, including mass consumption and distribution, and in more than 20 countries in Europe, America, Asia and Africa. She was born in Barcelona.

Last updated: May 2022

He has a PhD in Social Psychology and a Master's degree in Cognitive Psychology. He is an associate professor with aggregation and coordinator of the Master's degree course in Cognitive and Social Psychology at the University of Lisbon School of Psychology. His areas of research focus on social cognition and judgement and decision-making.

Last updated: May 2022