Politics

Senior lecturer in the School of Communication, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Richmond. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she worked as a researcher and university lecturer. She is a correspondent for the Portuguese press, first for the «Diário de Noticias» and, since 2001, for the weekly «Expresso» newspaper.

Last updated: March 2023

Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. Previously, he was a Nottingham Research Fellow at the same university and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leiden. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University Institute of Florence and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) and in Political Science from the University of Salamanca (Spain).
He has devoted himself to comparative politics, with a focus on party regulation, party financing, democratic constitutional design, party development, institutionalisation of the party system and the promotion of democracy.

Last updated: March 2023

PhD in Political Science from the University of Sheffield (UK). He was recently promoted to the rank of Principal Investigator at ISCTE-IUL. His research interests focus on issues of comparative politics in the European context, with a particular focus on the politics of international migration and far-right parties.

Last updated: March 2023

Postdoctoral Researcher at Yale University. He has analysed the nature, causes and consequences of political institutions. He has also studied the patterns of political representation in democracies with weak political parties.

Last updated: March 2023

She holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence, she is an assistant professor at ISCTE-IUL and a researcher at CIES-IUL. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Social Sciences, ICS, as a Junior Visiting Researcher at the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin and as a Junior Researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid. She was an Assistant Lecturer at the Birkbeck, University of London. She has a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and a Master's degree in Political Science. Her main areas of research are: gender and politics, comparative politics, political representation, electoral systems, methodology and data analysis.

Last updated: March 2023

Professor of Comparative Politics at Leiden University and editor of the political science journal Acta Politica. Her research interests include comparative European politics, political parties and party systems in Europe, democratisation, Southern Europe and post-communist politics.

Last updated: March 2023

Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo is an associate professor of History at the University of Coimbra Centre for the History of Society and Culture. His research interests focus on the global, connected and comparative history of imperialism and of colonialism (19th-20th century).
Miguel publishes regularly in the foremost publishers and journals, both in Portugal and abroad. He recently co-authored «História(s) do Presente» (2020, Tinta-da-China) and coordinated «Os Mundos do (Sub)Desenvolvimento» (2023, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra).
He has a PhD in History from King’s College London.

Last updated: August 2025

Assistant Professor in Political Science at Iscte-IUL and integrated researcher at CIES-Iscte. She was coordinator of the project 'HOPES: Housing Perspectives and Struggles. Futures of housing movements, policies and dynamics in Lisbon and beyond (2018-2022, FCT, PTDC/GES-URB/28826/2017) and is co-chair of the Research Network Social Movements of the Council of European Studies. Her areas of research are social movements, with a special interest in processes of political radicalisation, the role of protest in political change, digital activism, gentrification and movements for the right to housing.

Last updated: March 2023

She has a PhD in Sociology, specialising in Development and Social Change, from the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities in Lisbon.
She is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at NOVA FCSH, where she coordinates the Master’s degree in Human Ecology and Contemporary Social Problems. She is an integrated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences and has done research work on the subjects of ageing and the related social policies, family and intergenerational relations, as well as health.

Last updated: July 2024

An economist with a master's degree in quantitative methods (Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, FEP-UP), he launched and coordinated the National Statistics Institute's Construction and Housing Price Indicator System. He is Director of Confidencial Imobiliário, where he oversees statistical production. He is a guest expert on several postgraduate real estate courses, including at Lisbon School of Management and Economics (ISEG) and Porto Business School (EGP-PBS). He was an advisor to the President of the Association of Civil Construction and Public Works Industrialists (AICCOPN).