Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Ana Cristina Alvarez Caiano da Silva Santos
Citation names
- Santos, Ana Cristina
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- E216-296B-EEF1
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9597-7150
- Scopus Author Id
- 57200047500
Email addresses
- cristina@ces.uc.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- Centro de Estudos Sociais. Centro de Estudos Sociais, Colegio S. Jerónimo, Apartado 3087, 3000-995, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- http://www.ces.uc.pt/investigadores/cv/ana_cristina_santos.php (Professional)
- https://twitter.com/acsantos_ces (Social media)
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Sociology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | |
French | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | |
Italian | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Advanced (C1) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2023/05/18 - 2023/05/19
Concluded
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Human Rights in Contemporary Societies (Título de Habilitação de Coordenação Científica)
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
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2009/01
Concluded
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Gender Studies (Doutoramento)
University of Leeds School of Sociology and Social Policy, United Kingdom
"Enacting Activism: Political, Legal and Social Impacts of LGBT Activism in Portugal" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Awarded Unconditionally (no changes required - hig |
2004
Concluded
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Sociedades Nacionais Perante Processos de Globalização (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
"Human Rights and Sexual Minorities in Portugal" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Very Good, unanimously (highest grade) |
1999
Concluded
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Sociologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
"Searching the Rainbow: lesbian and gay identities in Portugal" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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15 (dissertation: 18 out of 20) |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2019/05/01 - Current | Principal Investigator (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
2011/09/01 - 2019/04 | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
2007/10/01 - 2011/03/31 | Researcher (Research) | Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom |
1998/02/01 - 2004/01/31 | Research Assistant (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2013 - Current | Associate Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal | ||
2009/01/01 - 2011/03/01 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom |
2002/10/01 - 2004/06/30 | Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) | Instituto Piaget Unidade de Investigação em Educação e Intervenção Comunitária, Portugal |
Positions / Appointments
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2023/05/19 - Current | Principal Investigator with Habilitation | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
2022 - Current | Chair of Democracy, Justice and Human Rights Thematic Line | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
2021 - Current | Co-coordinator of CES Sexualities Research Group - GPS CES | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
2017/07 - 2020/06 | President of Ethics Committee | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
2013 - 2016 | Vice-President of Scientific Council | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2011/04/01 - 2017 | Honorary Research Fellow | Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/01 - 2027/12 | TRACE Tracing Queer Citizenship over Time: Ageing, ageism and age-related LGBTI+ politics in Europe
ref. n. 338452
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
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European Research Council
Ongoing
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2019/10 - 2021/09 | Diversity and Childhood - Changing social attitudes towards gender diversity in children across Europe
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
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European Commission - REC Programme (Rights, Equality, Citizenship)
Concluded
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2015 - 2019 | INTIMATE - Citizenship, Care and Choice: the Micropolitics of Intimacy in Southern Europe
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
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European Research Council
Concluded
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2012/04 - 2014/09 | Disabled intimacies: sexual and reproductive citizenship of disabled women in Portugal
PTDC/CS-SOC/118305/2010
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. Stichting Weten Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
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2007/10 - 2010/03 | Reconstructing Human Rights through Transnational Legal Mobilization? Portugal and the European Court of Human Rights
PTDC/SDE/65652/2006
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. Stichting Weten Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
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2005/07 - 2008/02 | Common perceptions of (i)legality: the case of reproductive health in Portugal
POCI/SOC/59526/2004
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2018/03 - 2021/02 | Comparing Intersectional Life Course Inequalities amongst LGBTQ Citizens in Four European Countries
NORFACE/0001/2016
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2009/11 - 2012/01 | Sexual citizenship of Lesbian (Women) in Portugal. Experiences of discrimination and possibilities for change
PIHM/GC/0005/2008
Researcher
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Stichting Weten Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2022/01/01 - 2024/12/31 | REMEMBER – Recording Experiences of LGBTQ Elders in Post-Dictatorship Portugal (1974–2020)
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2022 - 2024 | Colourful Childhoods Empowering LGBTIQ children in vulnerable contexts to combat gender-based violence across Europe
101049251 CERV-2021-DAPHNE
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
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European Commission - REC Programme (Rights, Equality, Citizenship)
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
Book |
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Book chapter |
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Book review |
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Conference paper |
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Dictionary entry |
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Edited book |
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Journal article |
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Journal issue |
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Online resource |
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Report |
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Working paper |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2020/09 | Que farei quando tudo arde? Diversidade e relações de cuidado em pessoas acima dos 60 | Conversas Desconfinadas
Centro de Estudos Sociais - UC (Portugal)
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2020/06 | From outcast to citizen: time travels of LGBTQI+ elders in Southern Europe | Council of European Studies || Gender and Sexuality Research Network
Council of European Studies (Iceland)
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2020/04 | From villain to hero: trans men and non-binary persons as care providers in Southern Europe | Higher Seminars - Karlstad University
Centre for Gender Studies - UNiversity of Karlstad (Karlstad, Sweden)
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2019/07 | Do armário à sobrevisibilidade: notas sobre identidade estratégica e o lugar da autodeterminação | CIEG International Conference
Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos de Género (CIEG) (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2018/11 | The heterocisnormative glass ceiling: a literature and survey review of LGBTQI+ discrimination in the workplace in Portugal | First DIAL thematic workshop: Labour Market Inequalities Across the Life-course
University of Turku - DIAL Programme/ NORFACE (Turku, Finland)
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2018/09 | Intimate Monsters speak back: Intimate citizenship and monstrous kinship in Southern Europe | ESFR2018 9th Congress Families Through the Lens of Diversity
European Society on Family Relations (ESFR) (Porto, Portugal)
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2018/04 | Reflecting on Families and Sexualities in Times of Social Change | The Political in the Personal: Families and Sexualities in Times of Social Change in Europe
(Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
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2017/08 | Unsexing reproduction: narratives of lesbian and bisexual women with children in Portugal | ESA Conference
European Sociological Association (Athens, Greece)
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2017/05 | Shifting intimate scripts: relational citizenship and reproductive dissidence in contemporary Portugal | Gendering the Portuguese-speaking World
King's College London (London, United Kingdom)
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2017 | What's sexuality got to do with it? Queer motherhood in times of compulsory reproduction | What's sexuality got to do with it? Queer motherhood in times of compulsory reproduction ", comunicação apresentada em XI
IASSCS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand
IASSCS - The International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (Bangkok, Thailand)
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2017 | Who's afraid of the big, bad Q? Embracing Queer in Design Research | UD17 NOISEWSE: Design Research in face of current challenges to knowledge
Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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2016 | Cidadania relacional na Europa do Sul - pensar o des(re)conhecimento de biografias íntimas não-monogâmicas e queer | IX Congresso Português de Sociologia
Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia (Faro, Portugal)
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2016 | Queer Non-Monogamy Hits the Legal (Marriage) Fan: Relational Citizenship in Portugal", comunicação apresentada em | After Marriage Conference
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York (New York, United States)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2021 - Current | Educação sexual inclusiva: avaliação e resposta às necessidades de mulheres com
diversidade funcional, sensorial e neurodiversidade
Co-supervisor
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Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal
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2018 - Current | Parentalidades dissidentes: o cuidado exercido por homens trans* no Brasil e em Portugal
Supervisor
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Estudos Feministas (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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2017 - Current | Sexualidades invisíveis: Cidadania íntima e bem-estar psicossocial na bissexualidade
Co-supervisor
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Psicologia (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
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2019 - 2023/02 | Sexualidades Mayas Contemporáneas: El caso de los Mayas de la Península de Yucatán y Chiapas, México
Supervisor of Rubén de Jesús Solís Mecalco
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Pós-Colonialismos e Cidadania Global (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
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2018 - 2023 | (De)Constructing the Closet: Insularity as a lens to understand LGBTQ visibilities
Supervisor
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Human Rights in Contemporary Societies (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
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2015 - 2022 | Corpos extra-ordinários no desporto: uma leitura pós-humana crítica à regulação da hiperandrogenia e identidades trans
Supervisor
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Estudos Feministas (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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2011 - 2020 | Migração feminina em contextos pós-coloniais globalizados: teias entrelaçadas entre afetos e agência na rota Brasil-Suriname-Holanda
Co-supervisor
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Pós-Colonialismos e Cidadania Global (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
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2015 - 2019 | A REVOLUÇÃO ASSEXUAL: DISCUTINDO DIREITOS HUMANOS PELA LENTE DA ASSEXUALIDADE EM PORTUGAL
Supervisor
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Direitos Humanos nas Sociedades Contemporâneas (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
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2015 - 2018 | Travestis Brasileiras no Sul da Europa: subalternidade e reconhecimento nas fronteiras de género e sexualidade
Supervisor
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Pós-Colonialismos e Cidadania Global (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
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2014 - 2018 | Queering Design: Material Re-Configurations of Body Politics
Supervisor
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Design (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2023 | Desde as raízes até os galhos: perspectivas decoloniais sobre refúgio LGBTQIA+ em Portugal e Espanha
(Thesis) Arguer
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Flavia Stephan (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
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2023 | CORPORAL FASCISM OVER WOMEN’S BODIES: FEMINIST MOVEMENTS SEEKING EMANCIPATORY ALTERNATIVES THROUGH THE MOBILIZATION OF LAW
(Thesis) Arguer
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Jessica Carvalho Morris (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
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2022 | LGBTI+ community representation and diversity: the discursive construction of the opinionated columns in Folha de S. Paulo
and Mídia Ninja
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Felipe Dall'Orto (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2021/07 | From Monsters to Men: Affective representations in AIDS visual narratives and the experience of citizenship
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Leonardo Correia Cascão (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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2019 | Diferentes modelos de maternidade e suas implicações: motivações, expectativas e realidades de mães portuguesas
(Thesis) Arguer
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Filipa Monteiro César Ferreira (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
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2018 | Eu, Tu... Ilus: Poliamor e não-monogamias consensuais
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Maria Silva e Silvério (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
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2018 | Hegemonic regulations of kinship: Gender and sexualities norms in Italy
(Thesis) Arguer
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Diego Lasio (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
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2016 | Entre corpos e Ecrãs - Identidades e Sexualidades dos Jovens nos novos Media
(Thesis) Arguer
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DANIEL DOS SANTOS CARDOSO (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2014 | Reconceptualising Public Spaces of (In)equality: Sensing and Creating Layers of Visibility
(Thesis) Arguer
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Maria Eduarda Pereira da Costa Ferreira (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2007 - Current | British Sociological Association | |
2001 - Current | European Sociological Association | |
2000 - Current | Portuguese Sociological Association |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2021/09 - 2024/08 | Elected member of the Executive Committee of the European Sociological Association
Other
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European Sociological Association, France |
2021 - 2024 | Chair of the Democracy, Justice and Human Rights Thematic Line, at CES-UC.
President / Vice-president
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
2021/02 - 2023/02 | Appointed member of the Monitoring and Evaluating Committee of the Doctoral Programme in Feminist Studies - FLUC/CES
Member
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Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
2020/06 - 2021/09 | Consultive Committee Member for SciELO Portugal | SciELO Portugal, Portugal |
2013 - 2017 | Appointed Member of the Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities
Member
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities, Portugal |
2012 - 2016 | Vice-Chair European Sociological Association - Sexuality Research Network
President / Vice-president
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European Sociological Association - Sexuality Research Network, France |
Consulting
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2020 - Current | Expert in Social Sciences for the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) | FRA - European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights , Austria |
2018/12 - Current | European Science Foundation - invited member of College of Expert Reviewers | European Science Foundation, France |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2015 - Current | Human Rights in Contemporary Societies - TPHRs | Theories and Politics of Human Rights (Doutoramento) | Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal |
2015 - Current | Feminist Studies | Sexualities, Law and Gender Violence (Doutoramento) | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
2013 - Current | Human Rights in Contemporary Societies - IneDiscSocTrans | Inequalities, Discrimination and Social Transformation (Doutoramento) | Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2022 - 2023 | Evaluator of the ERC Advanced Grants - Panel SH3 European Research Council
Evaluator
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European Research Council, Belgium |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2023/08 | Interviewed as expert in LGBTQI+ Ageing: "Trajetórias LGBTQIA+ e a fragilidade de redes de cuidado em Portugal" | Gerador |
2023/01/06 | Interviewed as expert in LGBTQI+ Ageing for the daily national broadsheet Newspaper Público "Ana Cristina Santos: idosos LGBT+ não têm as típicas redes de cuidado informal" | Público |
2020 | Interviewed as specialist in "O que está a mudar na educação das crianças" | Revista Ativa |
2018/12 | Interviewed as specialist in O Natal é «uma época muito delicada» para quem é LGBTI | Newspaper Público |
2018/10 | Interviewed as specialist in Situação da comunidade LGBTQ+ é melhor em Portugal do que em Espanha e Itália | Newspaper Expresso |
2018 | Interviewed as specialist in Tão Distantes, Tão Próximos | Newspaper Visão |
Interview (tv / radio show)
Program | Topic | |
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2023/12 - Current | Interviewed as expert in LGBTQI+ issues | |
2019/01 - Current | Programa 90 Segundos de Ciência - Antena 1 | Parentalidade das pessoas LGBTQ |
2020 - 2020 | Sociedade Civil | Intolerance |
2018 - 2018 | Prova Oral - Antena 3 | |
2018 - 2018 | Programa «É a vida Alvim» |
Distinctions
Other distinction
2023 | Consolidator Grant - European Research Council
European Research Council, Belgium
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2016 | 100 Mulheres Cientistas em Portugal
Ciência Viva, Portugal
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2013 | Starting Grant - European Research Council
European Research Council, Belgium
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2011 | Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2011 (which I declined) |
2009 | Travel grant - international academic conference paper
Accademia Britannica, Italy
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2005 | Travel grant - international academic conference paper
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
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2004 | Research Scholarship of the University of Leeds, 2004 - 2007 |
2001 | Travel grant - international academic conference paper
Stichting Weten, Netherlands
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2000 | Travel grant - international academic conference paper
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
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