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Pedro Lourenço holds a PhD in Political Science from the Universities of Aveiro and Beira Interior (2024). He is currently an Invited Assistant Professor at the University of Beira Interior and a Researcher at the Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies (GOVCOPP-UA). His primary research interests include European politics, political parties, and the radical left. He has published in academic journals such as Government and Opposition, Swiss Political Science Review, and Mediterranean Politics.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Pedro Lourenço

Citation names

  • Lourenço, Pedro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B61F-9306-7360
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9666-368X
Google Scholar ID
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Researcher Id
IQR-6958-2023
Scopus Author Id
57196998133

Email addresses

  • pedromlourenco87@ua.pt (Professional)
  • pedro.lourenco@ubi.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Department of Social, Political, and Territorial Sciences, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (Professional)
  • Faculty of Arts and Letters, Rua Marquês de Ávila e Bolama, 6201-001, Covilhã, Covilhã, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Political Sciences - Political Science

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
French Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2017 - 2024
Concluded
 Political Science (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Sociais Políticas e do Território, Portugal

Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Portugal
"European radical left parties: programmatic change since the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989-2021)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved (unanimously, with distinction and merit)
2015 - 2017
Concluded
 Political Science (Mestrado)
Major in European and International Politics
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Sociais Políticas e do Território, Portugal
"Cold pragmatism, warm radicalism : ideological differences between radical left parties from Nordic and Southern European countries" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18 valores
2012 - 2015
Concluded
 Political Science (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
"(não aplicável)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18 valores (A)
2004 - 2009
Concluded
 Pharmaceutical Sciences (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
"(não aplicável)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15 valores (B)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/09 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Aveiro Unidade de Investigação em Governança Competitividade e Políticas Públicas, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Sociais Políticas e do Território, Portugal
2017/11 - 2022/03 Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Sociais Políticas e do Território, Portugal
2007/03 - 2008/07 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/10 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/08 Tutor (University Teacher) The University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science, United Kingdom

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/03 - 2020/06 Assistente (Técnico Superior de Saúde - Farmácia) Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia Espinho EPE, Portugal
2010/04 - 2015/11 Assistente (Técnico Superior de Saúde - Farmácia) Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho, E.P.E., Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024/06 - 2024/09 Research grant: VoteMatch Europe VAA for Portugal (EP 2024 Elections)
VoteMatch Europe
Research Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro Unidade de Investigação em Governança Competitividade e Políticas Públicas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/11 - 2022/03 European radical left parties: programmatic change since the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989-2021)
SFRH/BD/132534/2017
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Sociais Políticas e do Território, Portugal

Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/01 - 2017/02 Politics, Policy, Populism and Online Media: Investigating Possible (Dis)Connections and Actors in Modern Democracies
PROJ1/2017
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2007/03 - 2008/07 Cardiovascular risk factors in obese children and adolescents: influence of adiponectin and of polymorphisms in apoliprotein E and apoliprotein (a) genes in a Portuguese population
n.a.
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
 Caixa Geral de Depositos

Universidade do Porto

Other

Designation Funders
2025/02 - Current Linking euroscepticism and populism: causes and consequences (EUPopLink)
CA23102
Researcher
European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
 European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Ongoing
2025/01 - 2025/03 LGBTIQ+POL: Mobilizations Against LGBTIQ+ Rights and Gender Equality in Europe
PRIN PNRR 2022 “LGBTIQ+POL”
Researcher
Università degli Studi di Verona Dipartimento di Filosofia Pedagogia e Psicologia, Italy
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Lourenço, Pedro. "Código Deontológico para o Jornalismo Cidadão". In Utopias Europeias: o poder da imaginação e os imperativos do futuro, edited by Vasconcelos, Álvaro, 217-224. Porto, Portugal: Fundação de Serralves, 2021.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Nascimento, H; Silva, L; Lourenço, Pedro; Rocha, S; Castro, EB; Rocha-Pereira, P; Guerra, A; et al. Corresponding author: Nascimento, H. "Interaction of apolipoprotein E polymorphism and adiponectin levels with lipid profile in obese children and adolescents – a preliminary study". Paper presented in 18th Annual Meeting of the European Childhood Obesity Group (ECOG), Porto, 2008.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Lourenço, Pedro. "Programmatic Change in Southern European Radical Left Parties: the impact of a 'Decade of Crises and Resilience' (2009-2019)". Paper presented in ECPR General Conference 2021, 2021.
  2. Lourenço, Pedro; Conceição, Tiago. "Avoiding Dissonance: the role of radical left leadership in the management of intra-party factionalism". Paper presented in 26th IPSA World Congress of Political Science, 2021.
Conference poster
  1. Nascimento, H; Silva, L; Lourenço, Pedro; Weinfurterová, R; Castro, E; Rego, C; Ferreira-Mansilha, H; et al. Corresponding author: Nascimento, H. "Cardiovascular risk factors in obese children and adolescents: Influence of adiponectin and of polymorphisms in apoliprotein E and apolipoprotein (a) genes in a Portuguese population". Paper presented in IJUP 09 – 2nd Meeting of Young Researchers at University of Porto, 2009.
  2. Nascimento H; Silva, L; Lourenço, Pedro; Vieira, E; Santos R ; Rocha, S; Castro, E; et al. Corresponding author: Nascimento H. "The influence of a pentanucleotide repeat polymorphism in apolipoprotein(a) gene levels in Portuguese obese children and adolescents". Paper presented in XVI Congresso Nacional de Bioquímica, 2008.
Journal article
  1. Conceição, Tiago; Jalali, Carlos; Lourenço, Pedro. Corresponding author: Conceição, Tiago. "New partners on the street? Cooperation between radical left parties and progressive social movements in Portugal". Comparative European Politics (2025):
    Submitted
  2. Lourenço, Pedro; Conceição, Tiago; Jalali, Carlos. Corresponding author: Lourenço, Pedro. "Dealing with the Facts of Life: The Management of Intra-Party Factionalism in the Iberian Radical Left Parties". Government and Opposition 59 1 (2023): 109-129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gov.2023.9.
    Open access • Published • 10.1017/gov.2023.9
  3. Lourenço, Pedro. Corresponding author: Lourenço, Pedro. "Programmatic change in Southern European radical left parties: The impact of a decade of crises (2010–2019)". Mediterranean Politics 29 2 (2022): 186-209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2022.2129191.
    Open access • Published • 10.1080/13629395.2022.2129191
  4. Lourenço, Pedro. Corresponding author: Lourenço, Pedro. "Studying European Radical Left Parties since the Fall of the Berlin Wall (1990–2019): A Scoping Review". Swiss Political Science Review 27 4 (2021): 754-777. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12478.
    Open access • Published • 10.1111/spsr.12478
  5. Nascimento, Henrique; Silva, Letícia; Lourenço, Pedro; Weinfurterová, Radka; Castro, Elisabeth; Rego, Carla; Ferreira, Helena; et al. Corresponding author: Nascimento, Henrique. "Lipid Profile in Portuguese Obese Children and Adolescents: Interaction of Apolipoprotein E Polymorphism With Adiponectin Levels". Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 163 11 (2009): 1030-1036. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.190.
    Published • 10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.190
  6. Nascimento, Henrique; Silva, Letíicia; Lourenço, Pedro; Vieira, Emíilia; dos Santos, Rosário; Rego, Carla; Ferreira, Helena; et al. Corresponding author: Nascimento, Henrique. "Lipoprotein(a) Levels in Obese Portuguese Children and Adolescents: Contribution of the Pentanucleotide Repeat (TTTTA)n Polymorphism in the Apolipoprotein(a) Gene". Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 163 4 (2009): 393-394. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.17.
    Published • 10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.17
Newspaper article
  1. Lourenço, Pedro. "Europeias 2024: análise dos resultados do EUVoto", Jornal de Notícias, 2024, https://www.jn.pt/5413876788/europeias-2024-analise-dos-resultados-do-euvoto/.
  2. Lourenço, Pedro. "Mobilidade em bicicleta no Porto: o que falta fazer?", PÚBLICO, 2020, https://www.publico.pt/2020/09/10/local/noticia/mobilidade-bicicleta-porto-falta-1930986.
  3. Lourenço, Pedro. "A turistificação do Porto e a câmara municipal: uma relação complicada", PÚBLICO, 2017, https://www.publico.pt/2017/02/11/local/opiniao/a-turistificacao-do-porto-e-a-camara-municipal-uma-relacao-complicada-1761586.
  4. Lourenço, Pedro. "Salas de Consumo Assistido no Porto: ontem já foi tarde", Esquerda.net, 2015, https://www.esquerda.net/opiniao/salas-de-consumo-assistido-no-porto-ontem-ja-foi-tarde/40149.
Online resource
  1. Lourenço, Pedro. EP 2024: Portugal Post-election Report (European Elections 2024: A Left-Wing Observatory). 2024. https://transform-network.net/blog/_ep-2024-elections-the-left-wing-observatory_/ep-2024-portugal-post-election-report/.
  2. Lourenço, Pedro. Análise aos resultados da noite eleitoral europeia a partir da redação do Jornal de Notícias. 2024. https://www.jn.pt/5565790143/analise-aos-resultados-da-noite-eleitoral-europeia-a-partir-da-redacao-do-jornal-de-noticias/.
  3. Lourenço, Pedro; Carlos Jalali; Patrícia Catarina de Sousa e Silva. Corresponding author: Lourenço, Pedro. EUVoto - Voting Advice Application (VAA) for the 2024 EU Elections in Portugal. 2024. https://www.jn.pt/3865007347/30-perguntas-para-saber-qual-o-partido-com-que-mais-se-identifica-nas-europeias/.
  4. Lourenço, Pedro. Portugal: The Rise of the Far Right – Part Two? (European Elections 2024: A Left-Wing Observatory). 2024. https://transform-network.net/blog/_ep-2024-elections-the-left-wing-observatory_/portugal-the-rise-of-the-far-right-part-two/.
  5. Lourenço, Pedro. The 2019 Portuguese legislative election: A comfortable victory for the social democrats. 2019. https://whogoverns.eu/the-2019-portuguese-legislative-election-a-comfortable-victory-for-the-social-democrats/.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "European radical left parties: programmatic change since the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989-2021)". PhD, Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Sociais Políticas e do Território, 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/42646.
  2. Lourenço, Pedro. "Cold pragmatism, warm radicalism: ideological differences between radical left parties from Nordic and Southern European countries". Master, Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Sociais Políticas e do Território, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/22877.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/03/07 Centralised or Democratic? Leadership and intra-party dynamics in the Iberian Radical Left Parties XII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política
Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/09/01 Programmatic Change in Southern European Radical Left Parties: the impact of a Decade of Crises and Resilience (2009-2019) ECPR General Conference 2021
European Consortium for Political Research (Virtual Event)
2021/07/11 Studying European Radical Left Parties since the fall of the Berlin Wall (1990-2019): a scoping review 26th IPSA World Congress of Political Science
(Virtual Event)
2021/05/26 Avoiding Dissonance: the role of radical left leadership in the management of intra-party factionalism ECPR 2021 Joint Sessions of Workshops, Panel “Leadership in the European Radical Left”
(Virtual Event)
2020/11/20 Avoiding Dissonance: the role of radical left leadership in the management of intra-party factionalism PSA Left Radicalism International Workshop "Radical Left Organisation: Challenges, Opportunities, Implications"
(Virtual Event)
2018/04/18 Cold Pragmatism, Warm Radicalism: ideological differences between Radical Left Parties from Nordic and Southern European countries IX Congress of the Portuguese Association of Political Science
(Braga, Portugal)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2019/10/21 - 2019/10/22 CICP Short-Course “Methodology in Political Science” lectured by Professor Gary King (University of Harvard)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
2019/02/22 - 2019/03/01 Courses attended: Introduction to R (entry level) (2 ECTS) and Comparative Research Designs (4 ECTS). ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany
2018/09/10 - 2018/09/21 Presentation and discussion of a research paper and project: "The Programmatic Evolution of European Radical Left Parties since the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989-2018)". Attendance of lectures, preparation of readings, and participation in discussions in topics such as party organization, strategy and competition (7.5 ECTS). 28th ECPR PhD Summer School on “Political Parties”
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2025/02 - Current Local and Regional Policy Political Science and International Relations (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Portugal
2025/02 - Current Ethics, Human Rights and Politics Political Science and International Relations (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Portugal
2025/02 - Current Pressure Groups and Social Movements Political Science (Mestrado integrado) Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Portugal
2024/10 - Current Politics Analysis Political Science and International Relations (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Portugal
2024/10 - Current Political Science Theories Political Science (Mestrado) Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/07 Politics of the Welfare State (Tutor) Social Policy (Bachelor) The University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science, United Kingdom
2022/09 - 2023/01 Research Design in Politics and International Relations (Tutor) Politics (Bachelor) The University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science, United Kingdom

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2022 - Current Mentor in the Mentoring Programme EEGuiding Your Way – School of Economics and Management of the University of Minho (EEG-UM) n.a.

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2021/09/01 - 2021/11/30 Visiting Post-Graduate Research Student: 3-month research period supervised by Prof. Luke March. The University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science, United Kingdom
2009/03 - 2009/06 Research Project – Erasmus programme: "Total Phenol Estimation of Olive leaves (Olea europaea) and Japanese Privet leaves (Ligustrum japonicum)". Food and Analytical Chemistry Laboratory. Aristoteleio Panepistemio Thessalonikes, Greece
Distinctions

Award

2021 Best Pitch Award for Political Science at the University of Aveiro - Research Summit 2021 with "Managing Intra-Party Factionalism: the Case of Iberian Radical Left Parties", Lourenço P, Conceição T, Jalali, C. July 2021.
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Other distinction

2016 4 Excellence Scholarships from the University of Minho (Political Science): from 2013 to 2015.
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016 4 Merit Scholarships from the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Higher Education of Portugal: from 2013 to 2016.
Governo da República Portuguesa Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia e Ensino Superior, Portugal