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Sheila Holz is the executive coordinator of the PHOENIX (The rise of citizens' voices for a Greener Europe) project, funded under the H2020 program of the European Commission, running from 2022 to 2025. PHOENIX is an iterative learning process for different actors in different countries, whose overarching objective is to increase the transformative potential of democratic innovations under the European Green Deal, addressing farm-to-fork, circular economy, energy transition, and healthy soil policy areas. During her research career, she has been involved in projects related to citizen participation, the co-creation of nature-based solutions, issues related to agriculture and environmental risk assessment of pesticides, and fundamental rights such as housing. She has a degree in Law (2000), a Master's degree (2009) in Territorial Planning - Urbanism from the University of Aveiro (Portugal), and a PhD (2015) in "Democracy in the 21st Century" from the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (Portugal), with a doctoral scholarship funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She was a visiting student at the Università Degli Studi di Firenze, Italy (2011). Her doctoral thesis analyzed the importance of the law to promote practices of citizen participation in the elaboration of urban planning instruments, in Portugal and Italy. His area of research is public participation, democratic innovations, and issues related to agriculture, such as the farm-to-fork system promoted by the European Commission. Her current research interests are democracy strengthening; democratic innovations; green transition; agroecology; the right to housing and the right to the city.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sheila Holz

Citation names

  • Holz, Sheila

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D61E-DB10-1E7C
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5988-239X

Email addresses

  • sheilaholz@ces.uc.pt (Professional)
  • sheila.holz@gmail.com (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Law
  • Social Sciences - Political Sciences
  • Social Sciences - Political Sciences - Public Administration
  • Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Environmental Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Italian Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2009/10 - 2015/12/15
Concluded
 Democracy in the 21st Century (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
"(The force of the law and the force of the will: the importance of the law in the creation of participatory practices to develop urban planning instruments at the local level, both in Portugal and Italy)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved with prise and distintiction
2006/11/06 - 2009/07/14
Concluded
 Planeamento do Território e Ordenamento da Cidade (“Territory Planning and Town Planning”) (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Sociais Políticas e do Território, Portugal
"Propriedade e moradia na regularização fundiária: Brasil e Portugal (Property and housing in land regularization: Brazil and Portugal)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2006/09/11 - 2007/11/20
Concluded
 Specialist in Urban Law (Diploma de especialização)
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Brazil
 A (maximum)
2004/12/04
Concluded
 Excellence in Constitutional Law (Especialização pós-bacharelato)
Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina, Brazil
2004/06/19
Concluded
 Specialist in Theory of Legal Argumentation (Diploma de especialização)
Universitat d'Alacant, Spain
1996/02/02 - 2001/02/03
Concluded
 Bachelor Degree in Law (Bacharelato)
Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
 16,38
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/02/01 - Current Coordinating Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2020/03/01 - 2022/03/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
2018/06/01 - 2019/11/30 Postdoc (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2017/09/10 - 2018/05/31 Researcher (Research) Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
2016/04/01 - 2016/12/31 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2002/02/01 - 2006/09/01 Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/02/01 - Current PHOENIX - The Rise of Citizens' Voice for a Greener Europe
101037328
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2022/02 - Current PHOENIX -The Rise of Citizens Voices for a Greener Europe
H2020-LC-GD-2020-4
 European Commission
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - Current PARTICIPEDIA
895-2015-1007
Other
The University of British Columbia, Canada
 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Ongoing
2019/12/01 - Current Project PLUS (Platform Labour in Urban Spaces: Fairness, Welfare, Development)
822638
Other
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2023/06/01 - 2026/05/31 Nets4Dem
101112280
 European Commission
Ongoing
2020/11/01 - 2022/10/31 CITY WITHOUT UNIVERSITY / UNIVERSITY WITHOUT CITY: living in a university city after the COVID19 emergency
BIRD202750/2020
Invited Scientist Fellow
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Ongoing
2018/06/01 - 2019/11/30 URBiNAT, Healthy corridors as drivers of social housing neighbourhoods for the co-creation of social, environmental and marketable NBS
776783
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2016/05/01 - 2016/12/31 H2020 EMPATIA - Enabling Multichannel PArticipation Through ICT Adaptations”, coordenated by Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra
687920
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
 European Union
Concluded
2015/09/01 - 2016/04/30 Portugal Participa
A21-201688
Other
Associação In Loco, Portugal
 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

EEA Grants
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Holz, Sheila; Allegretti, Giovanni; Ramos, Alfredo. "Conferências e Conselhos Nacionais de Participação: a luta pela sobrevivência num governo autoritário.". In Qual o Caminho do Brasil? Instituições, cultura e política no século XXI.. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Appris Editora, 2021.
    In press
  2. Allegretti, Giovanni; Holz, Sheila; Allegretti, Giovanni; Holz, Sheila. "Habitar e Participar: quais os desafios para o contexto Portugues?". In O compromisso democrático com a participação cívica em tempos de emergência e reconstrução do novo normal, edited by Catarina Oliveira; Hermínia Gonçalves, 78-106. Porto, Portugal: EAPN, 2021.
    Published
  3. Allegretti, Giovanni; Holz, Sheila; Rodrigues, Nuno; Allegretti, Giovanni; Holz, Sheila; Rodrigues, Nuno. "Platform Economy in Lisbon During the Pandemic Emergency: Insights on the Circulation of Policy Ideas, in Spite of the Absence of a Specific Policy". In POLICY DIFFUSION: NEW CONSTRAINTS, NEW REALITIES - Proceedings of the II International Conference on Policy Diffusion and Development Cooperation, edited by Porto De Oliveira, Osmany, 103-130. São Paulo, Brazil: Balão Editorial, 2021.
    Published
  4. Holz, Sheila. "O percurso da lei toscana de incentivo à participação cidadã como direito fundamental. (The trajectory of Tuscany law to encourage citizen participation as a fundamental right)". In Hermenêutica, Justiça Constitucional e Direitos Fundamentai. 2016.
Conference abstract
  1. Holz, Sheila. "The (lack of) coordination between participatory processes: experiences in Iberian Peninsula". Paper presented in 22nd World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, 2012.
Conference paper
  1. Holz, Sheila; Monteiro, Tatiana Vilela. "Do Movimento Social à Participação Popular no Direito à Moradia para a população das Favelas: Desafio e oportunidades da trajetória brasileira (From the Social Movement to Popular Participation in the Right to Housing for the population of the Favelas)". Paper presented in III Seminário Nacional e I Seminário Internacional “Movimentos Sociais, Participação e Democracia, Florianópolis, 2010.
    Published • 10.5151/singeurb2019-106
  2. Holz, Sheila. "Política de habitação social e o direito à moradia no Brasil (Social housing policy and the right to housing in Brazil)". Paper presented in X Coloquio Internacional de Geocrítica, 2008.
  3. Holz, Sheila; Monteiro, Tatiana Vilela. "A eficácia do usucapião coletivo como instrumento de regularização fundiária e inclusão social (The effectiveness of collective usucaption as an instrument of land regularisation and social inclusion)". Paper presented in First International Conference of Young Urban Researchers (FICYUrb), Lisbon, 2007.
  4. Holz, Sheila; Monteiro, Tatiana Vilela. "A cidadania através da participação popular no ordenamento do território: o papel da educação (Citizenship through popular participation in land-use planning: the role of education)". Paper presented in Congresso Educação e Democracia- representações sociais, práticas educativas e cidadania, Aveiro, 2007.
Conference poster
  1. Holz, Sheila. "A força da lei e a força de vontade: a importância da lei para a promoção de práticas participativas na elaboração de instrumentos urbanísticos em Portugal e na Itália (The force of the law and the force of the will: the importance of the law in the creation of participatory practices in the development of urban planning instruments in Portugal and Italy)". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência, 2016.
Journal article
  1. Johan Axelman; Annette Aldrich; Sabine Duquesne; Thomas Backhaus; Stephan Brendel; Andreas Focks; Sheila Holz; et al. "A systems-based analysis to rethink the European environmental risk assessment of regulated chemicals using pesticides as a pilot case". Science of The Total Environment (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174526.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174526
  2. Denise Esteves; Sheila Holz; Mónica Lopes; Sinara Sandri. "Exploring the nexus of gender and environment in the H2020 PHOENIX project: insights from the design of a gender equality plan". Frontiers in Environmental Science (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2024.1331099.
    10.3389/fenvs.2024.1331099
  3. Sousa, José Paulo; Aldrich, Annette; Axelman, Johan; Backhaus, Thomas; Brendel, Stephan; Dorronsoro, Begoña; Duquesne, Sabine; et al. Corresponding author: Sousa, José Paulo. "Building a European Partnership for next generation, systems-based Environmental Risk Assessment (PERA)". EFSA Supporting Publications 19 8 (2022): 1-58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/sp.efsa.2022.en-7546.
    Open access • Published • 10.2903/sp.efsa.2022.en-7546
  4. Allegretti, Giovanni; Holz, Sheila. Corresponding author: Allegretti, Giovanni. ""Stricto sensu VS lato sensu? Regulating Participatory Processes Between "The Force of Law" and "The Force of Will"". Etica Pubblica. Studi su Legalitá e Partecipazione, Partecipazione e legalitá. Dilemmi e sfide 2 (2021): 71-94.
    Published
  5. Holz, Sheila; Allegretti, Giovanni. "At a crossroads: UBER and the ambiguities of the COVID-19 emergency in Lisbon". Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation - Special issue "Platform Labour in the Post-Covid City 2 (2021):
    Under revision
  6. Holz, Sheila; Oliveira, Fernanda Paula. "Parcelamento e edificação compulsórios como instrumento de implementação e de consolidação da função social da propriedade. O caso Português (com algumas incursões no direito brasileiro).” “Compulsory urban re-parcelling and compulsory building” as an instrument for the implementation and consolidation of the social function of the property. The Portuguese case (with some incursions in Brazilian)". Revista Americana de Direito Urbanístico 2 1 (2019): 157-185.
    Published
  7. Holz, Sheila. "O Caminho Legislativo da Primeira Lei Toscana para Incentivo a Práticas Participativas", (The Legislative Path of the First Tuscany Law to Encourage Participatory Practices)". Boletim de Análise Político-Institucional (IPEA) 14 (2018): 47-53. http://repositorio.ipea.gov.br/handle/11058/8564.
    Open access
  8. Holz, Sheila. "O direito à participação no planeamento urbano em Portugal: um diálogo entre o Direito e a Sociologia. (The right to participation in urban planning in Portugal: a dialogue between Law and Sociology)". CEDOUA 39 (2017): 49-71.
    Published
Report
  1. Sousa, José Paulo; Dorronsoro, Begoña; Holz, Sheila; Silva, Emília. 2022. Building a European Partnership for next generation, systems-based Environmental Risk Assessment (PERA). Final Roadmap Report.
    10.2903/sp.efsa.2022.EN-7546
  2. Ribeiro, Raquel; Santos, Ana Cordeiro; Neto, Daniela Sofia; Jesus, Fernanda; Valentim, Joaquim Pires; Coelho, Lina; Campos, Rita; et al. 2022. Projeto HOU$ING - Financeirização da habitação no Portugal do século XXI: Representações sociais, práticas e implicações políticas. Relatório Janeiro a Dezembro 2022.
  3. Nunes, Nathalie; Ferreira, Isabel; Holz, Sheila; Moniz, Gonçalo Canto; Michaux, Maximilien; Hilding-Hamann, Knud Erik; Andersson, Ingrid; et al. 2019. URBiNAT - Deliverable 3.2 - Report on community-driven processes to co-design and co-implement nature-based solutions. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/776783/results.
  4. Nunes, Natália; Ferreira, Isabel; Holz, Sheila; Moniz, Gonçalo Canto; Michaux, Maximilien ; Hilding-Hamman, Knud Erik; Andersson, Ingrid; Bjorner, Ema. 2019. URBiNAT, Community-driven processes to co-design and co-implement NBS. https://urbinat.eu/resources/.
  5. Hilding-Hamman, Knud Erik; Zacharias, Nabil; Chaabane, Ben; Nunes, Natália; Ferreira, Isabel; Caitana, Beatriz; Andersson, Ingrid; et al. 2019. URBiNAT, Strategic design and usage of participatory solutions and relevant digital tools in support of NBS uptake.. https://urbinat.eu/resources/.
  6. Hilding-Hamann, Knud Erik; Ben Chaabane, Nabil Zacharias; Nunes, Nathalie; Ferreira, Isabel; Caitana, Beatriz; Mackenzie, Tom; Holz, Sheila; et al. 2019. URBiNAT - Deliverable 3.1 - Report on strategic design and usage of participatory solutions and relevant digital tools in support of nature-based solutions uptake. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/776783/results.
  7. Dorronsoro, Begoña; Caitana, Beatriz; Esteves, Denise; Canto Moniz, Gonçalo; Ferreira, Isabel; Nunes, Nathalie; Silva Carvalho, Sandra; Holz, Sheila. 2018. URBiNAT - Deliverable 1.6 - Guide/manual on preliminary ethical guidelines, and communication and reporting procedures.
  8. Caitana, Beatriz; Moniz, Gonçalo Canto; Ferreira, Isabel; Nunes, Natália; Hansen, Alexandra; Mateus, Américo; Dorronsoro, Begoña; et al. 2018. URBiNAT, Handbook on the Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of the Project.. https://urbinat.eu/resources/.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Holz, Sheila. "A força da lei e a força da vontade : a importância da lei para a promoção de práticas participativas na elaboração de instrumentos urbanísticos em Portugal e na Itália (The force of the law and the force of the will: the importance of the law in the creation of participatory practices to develop urban planning instruments at the local level, both in Portugal and Italy)". PhD, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/29527.
  2. Holz, Sheila. "Propriedade e a moradia na regularização fundiária: Brasil e Portugal (Property and housing in land regularisation: Brazil and Portugal)". Master, Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Sociais Políticas e do Território, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/4894.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/01/11 Culture of participation in Oporto (Portugal) - first results Open debate with the research teams of the projects funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme ROCK (ICS-ULisbon) and URBINAT (CES-UC)
Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/08/17 The right to citizen participation in urban planning in Portugal: Lisbon practices Participation in urban planning
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, Brazil)
2010/09/22 The democratic participatory experiences in the area of urban planning in Portugal Democracia e participação: experiências e teorias
Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (Chapecó, Brazil)
2010/08 From the Social Movement to Popular Participation in the Right to Housing for the population of the Favelas III Seminário Nacional e I Seminário Internacional “Movimentos Sociais, Participação e Democracia
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, Brazil)
2008/05 Social housing policy and the right to housing in Brazil X Coloquio Internacional de Geocrítica
Universidade de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2007/12/06 The effectiveness of collective usucaption as an instrument of land regularisation and social inclusion First International Conference of Young Urban Researchers (FICYUrb)
CIES - Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (Lisbon, Portugal)
2007 Citizenship and citizens participation in land-use planning: the role of education Congresso Educação e Democracia- representações sociais, práticas educativas e cidadania
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/08/01 - 2020/09/01 Classroom at the Virtual Seminar "Covid-19 and excluding housing policies" in the 5th edition of the specialization in Epistemologies of the South specialization (Postgraduate Certificate) Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina
2019/08/01 - 2019/09/01 Classroom at the Virtual Seminar "Challenges to democracies in the 21st century" in the 4th edition of the specialization in Epistemologies of the South (Diploma de especialização) Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina
2018/08/01 - 2018/09/01 Classroom at the Virtual Seminar "Challenges to democracies in the 21st century" in the 3rd edition of the specialization in Epistemologies of the South, promoted by CLACSO (Diploma de especialização) Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2019 - 2019 COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) – Open Call OC-2019-1 in the role of Independent External Expert.
Evaluator
 European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium European Union
2018 - 2018 COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) – Open Call OC-2018-2 in the role of Independent External Expert (as Rapporteur)
Evaluator
 European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium European Union
2018 - 2018 COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) – Open Call OC-2018-1 (two proposals) in the role of Independent External Expert (one as Rapporteur).
Evaluator
 European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium European Union
2017 - 2017 COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) – Open Call OC-2017-1 in the role of Independent External Expert.
Evaluator
 European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium European Union

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2019/10 - Current Frontiers in Sociology (2297-7775) Frontiers Media SA
2017 - Current Revista de Direito da Cidade (2317-7721) Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro UERJ
2017 - Current Revista de Administração Pública (1982-3134) SciELO

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2017 - Current Revista de Administração Pública, e-ISSN 1982-3134 | ISSN 0034-7612 (Brazilian Journal of Public Administration Journal) (Brazil) (four times since 2017) Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil
Distinctions

Other distinction

2009 Doctoral fellowship awarded by Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) – Portugal – consisting in monthly stipends since the admission in the PhD, for four years, and travels to research stay in Florence, Italy.
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal