Maria Joana de Carvalho Catela Teixeira (B018-EBAB-1FFE)

Curriculum Vitae

Joana Catela

Joana Catela obtained a bachelor's degree in Anthropology at FCSH-NOVA, an MPhil in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge and a post-graduate certificate in Anthropology of Health from ISCTE-IUL. In 2018 she was awarded a PhD in Anthropology (ISCTE-IUL), after conducting an intensive ethnographic fieldwork in a social housing neighbourhood on the outskirts of Lisbon. Joana Catela joined the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) University of Lisbon as a Post-Doctoral Researcher to support project "exPERts: Making sense of planning expertise: housing policy and the role of experts in the Programa Especial de Realojamento (PER)" in 2018. She conducted a multi-sited ethnography in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA) focused both on the enactment of municipal workers' expertise and on the effects of PER in the rehoused community. In July 2020, Joana Catela joined the international project "SPLACH - Spatial Planning for Change" (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016431) as a Postdoctoral Researcher. This project was based at Dinâmia'CET, ISCTE-IUL and financed by European Structural and Investment Funds (FEEI). It focused on generating a body of transformative policies to support the transition to a more sustainable food system. Due to the sanitary restrictions imposed by the pandemic, Joana conducted a remote and digital ethnographic research with producers and distributors of food baskets in the LMA, to contribute to a better understanding of urban planning and the current food system. Joana Catela rejoined ICS in 2021 as a Postdoctoral Researcher working for project "CLAN: Children-animals friendships: challenging boundaries between humans and non-humans in contemporary societies" (PTDC/SOC 28415/2017). Her contribution for this project focused on examining the employment of visual methods to uncover the hybrid worlds children and their pets are already embedded in. As a post-doc researcher, Joana published co-authored articles, but also my her ethnographic research. The results were presented in national and international conferences, which offered her the opportunity to meet colleagues with similar research interests and to further develop these relationships. She has also been invited to teach different subjects: methods and techniques in social research, anthropology and development, animals and health, and digital methodologies. Her participation in the European Researcher's Night in 2020 testifies to her engagement with civil society, which runs in parallel with her concern in delivering research for evidence-based public policy. From 2021 to 2022, she also served as co-convenor for the Urban Transitions HUB at ICS and as consultant for the Aga Khan Foundation DiversITy project, a health literacy participatory project with immigrants. As for her experience outside academia, she worked at Estrela's Parish Council, where she was responsible for developing projects with local stakeholders. Now, Joana Catela teaches at a TEIP school - which stands for Educational Territory of Priority Intervention -, located in a disadvantaged area in Lisbon. This programme focuses on reducing absenteeism, indiscipline, and violence, and promoting educational success for its students. She is also Invited Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Maria Joana de Carvalho Catela Teixeira

Citation names

Catela, Joana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: B018-EBAB-1FFE
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2347-6613

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2018/10/12 Concluded	Antropologia (Doutoramento) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2011/01/01 Concluded	Antropologia da Saúde: Competência Cultural em Âmbito Clínico (Pós-Graduação) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2008/06/16 Concluded	Latin American Studies (Mestrado) University of Cambridge Centre of Latin American Studies, United Kingdom
2007/05/08 Concluded	Antropologia (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/04/01 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

2020/07/01 - 2021/02/28	Postdoc (Research)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
2018/01/10 - 2019/10/31	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/11/01 - Current	Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Educação de Leira, Portugal

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/11/09 - 2024/08/31	Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário)	Agrupamento de Escolas das Olaias, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2014/11/01 - 2015/10/31	Technical officer	Junta de Freguesia da Estrela, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/04/01 - 2022/03/31	CLAN: Children-Animals Friendships: challenging boundaries between humans and non-humans in contemporary societies PTDC/SOC 28415/2017 Post-doc Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2018/10/01 - 2019/10/31	exPERts - MAKING SENSE OF PLANNING EXPERTISE: HOUSING POLICY AND THE ROLE OF EXPERTS IN THE PROGRAMA ESPECIAL DE REALOJAMENTO (PER) PTDC/ATP-EUR/4309/2014 Post-doc Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2020/07/01 - 2021/02/28	SPLACH - Spatial Planning for Change POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016431 Post-doc Fellow ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Catela, J.. "Maria". In Exercícios de Antropologia Narrativa, 85-96. Lisbon, Portugal: Edições Colibri, 2023. Published
Journal article	Catela, Joana; Mónico, Sara. "NOTAS ETNOGRÁFICAS SOBRE PRÁTICAS DE CIDADANIA ATIVA NUMA ESCOLA MULTICULTURAL". Revista Conhecimento Online 2 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.25112/rco.v2.3859. Open access • Published • 10.25112/rco.v2.3859 Hilário, Ana Patrícia; Catela, J.; Augusto, Fábio Rafael; Graça, João. "The relation between humans and companion animals in chronic illness contexts". Analise Social (2022): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/59086935/. Published • 10.31447/AS00032573.2022243.09 Catela, J.. "Reflection: “It opened our eyes”: Ethnographic encounters during the COVID-19 pandemic in Lisbon, Portugal". Food and Foodways 29 4 (2021): 378-390. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/gfof20. Published • 10.1080/07409710.2021.1984558 Catela, J.; Hilário, Ana Patrícia; Augusto, Fábio Rafael; Graça, João. "“Olhares sobre a relação entre humanos e animais companheiros na vivência da doença crónica”". Análise Social (2021): Published Marat-Mendes, T.; Isidoro, I.; Catela, J.; Pereira, M.; Borges, J. C.; Lopes, S. S.; Henriques, C.. "Drivers of change: how the food system of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area is being shaped by activities, initiatives and citizens needs towards a sustainable transition". CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios Sp21 (2021): 41-62. https://journals.openedition.org/cidades/. Published • 10.15847/cct.20490 Catela, J.. "“I Don’t Have the Nerve to Tell These People That I Cannot Help Them!”: Vulnerability, Ethnography, and Good Intentions". Societies 9 4 (2019): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc9040084. Published • 10.3390/soc9040084 Catela, J.. "“Lending a hand”: the well-intentioned work of a non-profit organisation on the outskirts of neoliberal Lisbon". International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare 13 (2019): 18-30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhrh-03-2019-0021. Published • 10.1108/ijhrh-03-2019-0021
Newspaper article	Catela, Joana. "Uma antropóloga na escola pública", Diário de Leira, 2023
Thesis / Dissertation	Catela, J.. "Nas margens e em trânsito: a saúde mental e as boas intenções numa IPSS nos arredores de Lisboa [“On the margins and in transit: mental health and good intentions in an IPSS in the suburbs of Lisbon”]". PhD, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/16384.

Other

Other output

Do prado ao prato: transformações espaciais e dinâmicas metropolitanas representadas por redes de distribuição alimentar. PNUM 2020/2021. 2021. Isidoro, I.; Catela, J.; Marat-Mendes, T.. https://www.congressospco.abreu.pt/PNUM2020-38220.aspx.
Food baskets in the city: how small agriculture businesses can contribute to a proper planning of urban food systems. Global Food Systems in Local Contexts – Understanding Contemporary Food Systems Through Time. 2021. Catela, J.; Marat-Mendes, T.; Pereira, M.. https://caribbeanfoodscapes.com/symposium/.
Food baskets in the city: how small agriculture businesses can contribute to our understanding of what ethnography is. SIEF 2021 15th Congress Breaking the rules? Power, participation, transgression. 2021. Catela, J.; Marat-Mendes, T.; Pereira, M.. https://www.siefhome.org/congresses/sief2021/.
Children's Photography Archive (CPA): CLAN – Children-Animals Friendships collection. Selection of 131 photographs from a corpus of 762 taken by the children who participated in the CLAN project. Integration of these images into the Children Photography Archive (CPA). Role in the team: Database organisation and preparation, photo classification, interview analysis.. 2021. Policarpo, Verónica; Catela, Joana; Venâncio, Clara. https://www.childphotoarchive.org/collections/clan/.

Standard or policy

Financialization of housing in Southern Europe: Policy analysis and recommendations. Translation from English to Portuguese of the report commissioned and funded by the European Parliament, office of MEP José Gusmão (GUE/NGL, Bloco de Esquerda), as a member of Rede H (Housing Network).. 2021. Catela, Joana.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/11/17	A antropologia nos contextos educativos: as vozes dos alunos PLNM	XXVII Congresso Internacional de Antropologia Ibero-Americana (Leiria, Portugal)
2022/09/08	Food baskets in the city: how small agriculture businesses can contribute to a proper planning of urban food systems	APA’s 8th Congress Portuguese Association of Anthropology (APA) (Évora, Portugal)
2022	CLAN's multispecies childhoods	CLAN's final conference Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/11/12	"When dogs show you their bellies, it's because they feel protected": materialising children's practices with pets using visual methods	IUAES 2021 Yucatan Congress IUAES 2021: International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (Mexico)
2021/10/13	Zoonosis - Prospects and challenges for medical anthropology	Animal Wonder Reading Group Instituto de Ciencias Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/07/16	From farm to fork - Spatial transformations and metropolitan dynamics read through food distribution networks	PNUM 2021 Rede Lusófona de Morfologia Urbana (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/06/21	Food baskets in the city: how small agriculture businesses can contribute to our understanding of what ethnography is	SIEF 2021 15th Congress “Breaking the rules? Power, participation, transgression” University of Helsinki
2021/02/18	Food baskets in the city: how small agriculture businesses can contribute to a proper planning of urban food systems	Global Food Systems in Local Contexts – Understanding Contemporary Food Systems Through Time University of Exeter European Centre for Environment and Human Health and the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health with the University of the West Indies Caribbean Institute for Health Research
2019/10/29	“Depois do realojamento: o PER pelos moradores de Cascais e da Alta de Lisboa” [After rehousing: PER from the point of view of resettled residents from Cascais and Alta de Lisboa]	exPERts - Final Conference Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/09/04	"'The house is nice, but I don’t like the neighborhood' – slums, rehousing, and social vulnerability in the Lisbon metropolitan area"	ASA19: Anthropological perspectives on global challenges Association of Social Anthropologists of the Uk & Commonwealth (Norwich, United Kingdom)
2019/08/30	After rehousing: the Portuguese Special Rehousing Programme in the eyes of former slum-dwellers	On time: Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society Finnish Anthropological Society (Helsínquia, Finland)
2019/06/06	“Vulnerabilidade, saúde mental e boas intenções: diálogos etnográficos em contextos marginais” [“Vulnerability, mental health and good intentions: ethnographic dialogues in marginal contexts”]	VII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/10/21 - 2024/11/04	Ciclo de aulas abertas "Antropologia e Intervenção Social e Comunitária (2024/10/21 - 2024/11/04) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Educação de Leira, Portugal
2023/10 - 2023/11	Ciclo de aulas abertas "A Investigação e a Intervenção na Prática Profissional de Técnicos de Trabalho Social" (2023/10/10 - 2023/11/22) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
2022/09/06 - 2022/09/09	Panel co-chair. In the wake of the pandemic: thinking and rethinking food, its practices, consumptions, and transitions for the new 20s (2022/09/06 - 2022/09/09) Conference (Other)
2021/11/29 - 2021/12/02	The Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies (2021/11/29 - 2021/12/02) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2022 - Current	Workshop with CLAN project families and stakeholders. Workshop	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021/10/15 - Current	Invited discussant at the seminar "Caminhos epistemológicos entre corpo, saúde e branquitude" ("Epistemological debates on body, health and whiteness"). Seminar	"Caminhos epistemológicos entre corpo, saúde e branquitude" Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2020/11/27 - 2020/11/27	Participation in the European Researchers Night with an interactive quiz on the food system. Setting up of two channels on social networks in order to promote the scientific research carried out with a wider audience, through the daily promotion of the projects of the interlocutors (https: //www.instagram.com/splach_project /) and interviews with families about the food system (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV1konnbplW9fcxXvwypvCA). Exhibition	European Researchers Night
2020/07/21 - 2020/07/24	Co-convenor of panel P078 - Projects and the Temporalities of the Project Form: Intersections, Disruptions, Horizon with Dr. Andrew Graan from the University of Helsinki, at the EASA2020 international conference. Conference	EASA2020

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2019/01/01 - Current	Portuguese Association of Anthropology
2019/01/01 - Current	European Association of Social Anthropologists
2019 - Current	European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). Membership nr. M35880
2019 - Current	Rede H (Housing Network).	Member
2019 - Current	International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF). Membership nr. M37919.

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2021/04/01 - Current	Co-convener for the Urban Transitions Hub Coordinator	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2021/02/11 - Current	Participation by invitation of the Municipality of Loures to join the discussion group on the project for the design and implementation of the Municipal Plan for the Integration of Migrants as part of the application for the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (FAMI).
2021/01/01 - 2022	Consultant for project DiversITy - Aga Khan Foundation	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023/11/01 - Current	Social Anthropology	Relações Humanas e Comunicação Organizacional (Licenciatura)	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
2023/09/18 - Current	Education and Diversity; Heritage and Environment Education	Intervenção em Espaços Educativos (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional)	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
2023/09/18 - Current	Research methods in social sciences	Intervenção Social e Comunitária (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional)	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
2022/07/06 - Current	Feeding the confined city: narratives from small producers in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area	Food, Identity and Culture - An Introduction to the Anthropology of Food (Outros)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2022/06/15 - Current	Digital methods for interviews in Anthropology	Eurosud - Erasmus Mundus International Master, (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2020/10/27 - Current	"The therapeutic animal" - seminar taught in the post graduate course Animals and Society	(Pós-Graduação)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2020/10/23 - Current	Invited professor of the Integrated Master in Architecture at ISCTE-IUL, to teach a class related to the SPLACH research project.	Architecture (Mestrado integrado)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/02 - Current	Anthropology and Development	Intervenção Social e Comunitária (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional)	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
2023/02/20 - 2023/07/31	Anthropology and Development	Intervenção Social e Comunitária (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional)	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Educação de Leira, Portugal
2022/10/06 - 2022/10/06	Animals for Human Health and Social Inclusion	Post- Graduate Course Animals & Society – 2nd edition (Pós-Graduação)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021/10/18 - 2022/02/28	Research methods in social sciences	Intervenção Social e Comunitária (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional)	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
2021/07/12 - 2021/07/16	Comida, Identidade e Cultura: uma introdução à Antropologia da Alimentação (Food, Identity and Culture: an Introduction to the Anthropology of Food)	Summer School	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2018/02/01 - 2018/07/31	Anthropology and Development	Intervenção Social e Comunitária (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional)	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2022/02 - Current	Food and Foodways (1542-3484)	Taylor & Francis
2021/04 - Current	Análise Social	Instituto de Ciencias Sociais
2021/04 - Current	Vivencia: Revista de Antropologia
2019/11 - 2020/12	CIDADES Comunidades e Territórios (2182-3030)	Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)
2019/01 - 2020/12	International Journal of Humans Rights in Healthcare (2056-4902)	Emerald Publishing

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2021/03 - Current	External examiner of the Judicial Studies Center, entrance exam to the 37th initial theoretical-practical training course for magistrates of judicial courts.	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2020/11/12 - 2020/11/12	Member of the jury to award a fieldwork scholarship to master students in Anthropology 2020/2021, by the Portuguese Association of Anthropology.