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Associate professor in the Department of Sociology of UBI and director of the 2nd Cycle in Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation. Effective researcher at CIES-IUL

Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology of the university of Beira interior and Interior — and integrated researcher of the Centro de Investigação e Estudos em Sociologa of ISCTE-IUL.

Ana horta has a PhD in Sociology by ISCTE and her main research interests are  focused on social practices and representations related to household energy consumption, energy poverty and media discourses on energy transition and climate change.  

Associate professor in Academia Militar, member of Centro de Investigação da Academia Militar (CINAMIL) and integrated researcher in Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais (CICS.NOVA)

With a PhD in Sociologia do Estado e do Direito by Universidade de Coimbra, Assistant professor and researcher of Centro de Estudos Sociais from  Faculdade de Economia.

Catarina Tomás is a sociologist, with a PhD in Estudos da Criança (Sociologia da infância) from the Universidade do Minho, Portugal.

Invited Associate professor at Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e  Políticas, da Universidade de Lisboa (ISCSP-ULisboa)

Sociologist, Coordinator Professor at Lisbon School of Health Technologies.

PhD in Social Anthropology (Coimbra University) is Associate Professor (with Aggregation in Sociology) at the University of the Beira Interior

Elisabete Figueiredo is a Sociologist (ISCTE-IUL) and has a PhD in Ciências Aplicadas ao Ambiente (Universidade de Aveiro).

Auxiliar professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Researcher at the Center for Communication and Society Studies.

Associate professor with habilitation at the Department of Sociology of the Institute of Social Sciences – University of Minho and an integrated researcher at CICS

Fernando Diogo has a PhD in Sociology and is an assistant professor at Universidade dos Açores.

Retired professor at the Universidade dos Açores (October 2017)

Professor at Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo (ESHTE) since 1992 and researcher of CIES.Iscte.IUL SINCE 1995.

Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto (FLUP)

Professor of Sociology, Institute for Religion, Politics and Society, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne; Chair Professor in Sociology & Head of the Sociology Department, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Sociologist, Master in health sociology by ISCTE-IUL and PhD in sociology at the Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra and at the Cetro de Estudos Sociais.

 Assistant professor at Escola Superior de Educação e Ciências Sociais do Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre (IPP); Vice President for Investigação e Inovação from IPP; Researcher integrated of VALORIZA- Centro de Investigação para a Valorização dos Recursos Endógenos (IPP); Associated researcher of CIES-IUL and CICS.NOVA

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the Algarve University and Researcher at the CinTurs - Research Center on Turism, Sustainability and Wellbeing

Leonor Lima Torres is a sociologist, associated professor at the Departamento de Ciências Sociais da Educação and researcher at the Centro de Investigação em Educação da Universidade do Minho.

Magda Nico is a sociologist with a Ph.D on the Transitions to Adulthood on a Life Course Perspective (University Institute of Lisboan, 2011).

Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Arquitetura of Universidade de Lisboa (FAUL) and Integrated researcher at the Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia of Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (CIES-IUL).

Licenciate’s Degree in Law by University of Lisbon and in Sociology by the University of Amsterdam and Doctor cum laude in Social, Cultural and Political Sciences, presently he is retired Full Professor of Sociology from University of Minho, where he was Director of Centre of Research in Social Sciences (2002-2014).

Mara Pieri is currently a PhD student in the programme "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies" at Centro Estudos Sociais at University of Coimbra.

Maria da Saudade Baltazar is an assistant professor of the Departamento de Sociologia /ECS/UÉvora; Integrated researcher of CICS.NOVA and coordinator of Polo da Universidade de Évora- CICS.NOVA.UÉVORA.

Assistant professor at the Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa, and researcher at UIDEF (Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Educação e Formação)

Maria Strecht Almeida hold a PhD in sociology by Universidade de Coimbra with a study of the dynamics of research field in the biomedical sciences, she has a degree in Bioquímica from Universidade do Porto.

Sociologist, Assistant Professor of the Department of Sociology of Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto (FLUP). 

Nuno Nunes, sociologist, PHD, is a researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES) and Guest Professor in the School of Sociology and Public Policies, both placed at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal.

Nuno Poiares is a law and police sciences graduate from the Higher Institute of Police Sciences and Internal Security (Lisbon), with a Master (U. Évora) and a PhD (ISCTE-IUL) in Sociology.

Olga Magano holds a PhD in Sociology, she is an assistant professor at Universidade Aberta, in the Department of Social Sciences and Management and integrated researcher at CIES-IUI - Centro de Estudos e Investigação em Sociologia, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, ISCTE-IUL.

Sociologist. Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto (FLUP)

Sociologist and researcher at CESIS - Centro de Estudos para Intervenção Social.

Assistant researcher at Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa)

Rosalina Pisco Costa is a sociologist, assistant professor at the Department of Sociology and affiliated researcher at CICS.NOVA.UÉvora – The Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences, University of Évora, Portugal. She was an FCT and Calouste Gulbenkian student scholar at the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life of the University of Manchester, under the supervision of Carol Smart. In 2011, she completed her PhD in Social Sciences (Sociology) by the University of Lisbon with a thesis on family rituals, and in 2012, she was distinguished with the Early Stage Family Scholar Award by the International Sociological Association. Her research covers a broad range of issues regarding families, gender and personal life; social time and ages of life; ritualization, memory and familial aesthetics; everyday life, consumption and mobilities; trajectories, transitions and experiences in higher education; history and institutionalization of sociology in Portugal; and ethics in social sciences; while crosswise exploring QDA software, qualitative, sensory and creative social research methodologies. She has published widely and internationally in peer review journals, and her work appears in key publications such as The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society (2020), The Wiley Encyclopedia of Family Studies (2016), and The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Economics and Society (2015). In 2019, with Sampson Lee Blair, she co-edited the volumes Transitions into Parenthood: Examining the Complexities of Childrearing and Childbearing and the Changing Nature of Parenthood: The Contexts, Actors, and Experiences of Having Children da série Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research (Emerald).

Assistant Professor in Sociology, at Faculdade de Economia of Universidade de Coimbra, researcher at the Centro de Estudos Sociais and the Centro de Estudos Cooperativos e da Economia Social of FEUC.

Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA) and a Guest Assistant Professor at the University Institute of Maia. 

Vanessa Cunha is a sociologist and assistant researcher at Instituto de Ciiências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa).