Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Joana Vaz de Sousa
Citation names
- Sousa, Joana
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- E718-72C9-9191
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5102-254X
Email addresses
- joanasousa@ces.uc.pt (Professional)
Websites
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
- Natural sciences - Other Natural Sciences
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Spanish; Castilian | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
French | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Elementary (A2) | Advanced (C1) | Elementary (A2) |
Creole and Pidgin, Portuguese-based (Other) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2009/06/15 - 2015/05/15
Concluded
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Anthropology (Doctor of Philosophy)
Oxford Brookes University, Department of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
"Shape shifting nature in a contested landscape in Guinea-Bissau" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2015 - 2015
Concluded
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Course on film edition (post-production) (Outros)
Universite de Geneve, Switzerland
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2015 - 2015
Concluded
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Course on filmaking (Outros)
Universite de Geneve, Switzerland
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2015 - 2015
Attended
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Décrire, comprendre, expliquer: Enquête de terrain et posture réflexive (Outros)
Université de Genève Département de Sociologie, Switzerland
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2012/06/01 - 2012/06/30
Concluded
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Post-graduate course: Ethnographic writing (Postgraduate Certificate)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
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2006/10/01 - 2008/11/24
Concluded
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Conservation Biology (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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19 |
2001/10/01 - 2005/10/14
Concluded
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Environmental Biology (Bachelor)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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15 |
2004/09/01 - 2005/07/31
Concluded
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Socrates-Erasmus student (Outros)
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2005/02/01 - 2005/03/31
Concluded
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Human Ecology of Ecuadorian Andes and Amazonia (Outros)
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2019/06/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
2015/09/01 - 2016/08/31 | Principal Investigator (Research) | Université de Genève Faculté des Sciences de la Société, Switzerland |
2014/12 - 2015/08 | Research Assistant (Research) | Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal |
2009/06 - 2015/05 | Researcher (Research) | Oxford Brookes University, Department of Social Sciences, United Kingdom |
Oxford Brookes University, Department of Social Sciences, United Kingdom | ||
2008/02 - 2009/05 | Research Assistant (Research) | Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
2006/03 - 2006/10 | Research Assistant (Research) | Parque Nacional do Banc D'Arguin, Mauritania |
2005/03 - 2005/08 | Research Trainee (Research) | Ecopar (Quito, Equador), Ecuador |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2016/10/01 - 2019/04/30 | Associate Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau |
Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau | ||
2017/10/01 - 2018/07/31 | Associate Professor (University Teacher) | Escola Normal Superior Tchico Té, Guinea-Bissau |
Escola Normal Superior Tchico Té, Guinea-Bissau |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2015/01/09 - 2016/08/31 | Nature in transition: Farmers and herders in Guinea-Bissau
2015.0060 / Portugal / OP
Post-doc Fellow
Universite de Geneve, Switzerland
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Bourses d’excellence de la Confédération suisse
Concluded
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2009/07 - 2015/05 | Shape-shifting nature in a contested landscape in Guinea-Bissau
SFRH/BD/45109/2008
PhD Student Fellow
Oxford Brookes University Department of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2012/01/01 - 2012/12/31 | Cashew nut and swamp rice farming: A way forward? Views of elders and youngsters
Future Agricultures Consortium
Researcher
Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
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Future Agricultures Consortium, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Concluded
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2010/03/01 - 2011/02/28 | Ecological and social dimensions of people-wildlife interactions in southern Guinea-Bissau
13004-2
PhD Student Fellow
Oxford Brookes University, Department of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
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The Rufford Small Grants Foundation
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2019/05/01 - Current | MARIS: Mangroves, Rice and the Sea, growing food in coastal peripheries: Networks of knowledge and technology in the Guinea
coast (1800- 2010s)
CEECIND/04424/2017
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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2014/01/12 - 2015/08/31 | INCAA: INnovative Conservation Agriculture Approaches: Food Security and Climate Action through Soil and Water Conservation
ERA-AFR/0001/2013
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2007 - 2008 | Distribution of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in the coastal areas of Guinea-Bissau and their interaction with local
people
POCI/ANT/57434/2004
Master Student Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2022/10/01 - Current | BIOASSEMBLER - Integrating bio-inspired assembly into semiconductor manufacturing technology for biosensors
Researcher
Centre for Social Studies, Univ Coimbra, Portugal
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European Commission
Ongoing
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2022/01/01 - Current | MARGINS - People, rice and mangroves at the margins: A hybrid and contested interface in a changing world
Principal investigator
Centre for Social Studies, Univ Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2022/01/01 - Current | FIREUSES - Burning landscapes: A political and environmental history of the large wildfires in Portugal (1950-2020)
PTDC/HAR-HIS/4425/2021
Researcher
Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2021/09/01 - Current | JUST2CE - A just transition to the circular economy
101003491
Researcher
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Centre for Social Studies, Univ Coimbra, Portugal |
European Commission
Ongoing
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2016/06/01 - 2019/05/31 | Comparative landscape evolutionary genomics of West-African primates: A contribution of the anthropological biology to their
conservation plan
PTDC/IVC-ANT/3058/2014
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Concluded
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2013/02/01 - 2013/04/30 | Maboan, building a dam for mangrove rice farming in southern Guinea-Bissau: Action-Research and Visual Anthropology
crowd funding
Researcher
Cabasane Biteraune, Guinea-Bissau
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Chão-de-Gente
Concluded
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2009/10/01 - 2010/09/30 | Food security and international trade: The case of cashew nut in Guinea-Bissau
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Other
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Conferências do Estoril
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Book review |
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Conference poster |
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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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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Working paper |
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Artistic / Performance
Artistic exhibition |
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Visual artwork |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/04/10 | Aceleração do fogo e da plantação e o lugar das pessoas em contratempo: Notas para discussão a partir da memória os últimos incêndios da Serra da Monchique | Conferências-Debate “Economia Política no Centro”: Incêndios florestais e modelo socioeconómico. 10 de abril. Escola Superior
Agrária de Coimbra (ESAC-IPC) + Online. https://ces.uc.pt/pt/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2024/incendios-florestais-e-modelo-socioeconomico
Associação Portuguesa de Economia Política; Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra; Oficina de Ecologia e Sociedade do Centro
de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2023/11 | The literary arsonist | Uncertain Landscapes - International Congress
Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Teatro Jordão (Guimarães, Portugal)
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2023/11 | Os mangais enquanto ecossistemas de transição ecológica e lugares de profusão cultural através de fontes portuguesas dos séculos XVI-XX [Mangrove as ecosystem of ecological transition and places of cultural encounter in 16-20th centuries] | 7º Encontro Nacional de História das Ciências e Tecnologia (ENHCT)
Colégio do Espírito Santo da Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
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2023/11 | A natureza e as alterações climáticas a partir da Guiné-Bissau: Exclusão, violência colonial e suas continuidades [Nature and climate change in Guinea-Bissau: Exclusion, colonial violence and their continuities] | Natureza e Crise Climática. Universitários pelo Futuro: Rede de Debates
Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2023/11 | As bolanhas do Chão de Biombo: Um percurso longínquo de abandono da produção de arroz [The rice fields in Bimbo: An early abandonment of rice production] | A Crise Climática e a Guiné-Bissau: Ruturas, Continuidades e Incertezas
Centre for Social Studies, Univ Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2023/10 | Fogo no baldio. Uma caminhada na serra, um percurso de investigação [Fire in the commons. A walk in the mountain, a research pathway] | V Meeting of Report(h)a, Portuguese Network of Environmental History: Energy and socio-environmental challenges
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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2023/10 | Co-production in an action-research project on mangrove rice farming in Guinea-Bissau | The Digital with Purpose Global Summit: Digital Tecnhology Solution aimed at Creating a Sustainable and Inclusive Future
Altice Arena (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/08 | The burning landscapes of Monchique: In search of a people's history of extreme fires in the mountains of southern Portugal | 12th European Society for Environmental History Conference: Mountains and Plains
University of Bern (Bern, Switzerland)
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2023/07 | Citizen science approaches in educational contexts: Sharing experiences from a initiative in social sciences | CONNECT International Conference on Open Schooling
Museu de la Ciència (Barcelona, Spain)
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2023/06 | Pyrostories: New Historical Insights from Portuguese Literature. | Twenty-first International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. Literary Landscapes: Forms of knowledge in the
Humanities
Sorbonne Université, Faculté des Lettres (Paris, France)
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2023/06 | Co-production and the politics of hiding in an action-research project on mangrove rice farming in Guinea-Bissau | Development Studies Association 2023 Conference, Crisis in the Anthropocene: Rethinking connection and agency for development
University of Reading (Reading, United Kingdom)
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2023/06 | The strange case of white rice in Maranhão: the plantation and its contraries from a long-term transatlantic perspective | Environmental Impact of the Portuguese Empire
Anatomy Museum, King's College London (London, United Kingdom)
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2023/06 | Rice technology, strength and the making of the mud | Shifty Muds: Land, Workshop: Water, and Life in a “Patchy Anthropocene”
Rainer Institute of Anthropology Bucharest (Bucharest, Romania)
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2023/05 | The political economy of the colour of rice: Reconstructing a process of Atlantic significance. | Riso. Colture e culture in Europa e nel Mediterraneo
Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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2023/04 | Rupturas na reprodução tecnológica da orizicultura de mangal em Cacheu, Guiné-Bissau [Transformations in the technological reproduction of mangrove rice farming in Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau] | XII Congresso Português de Sociologia – Sociedades Polarizadas? Desafios para Sociologia
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2022/11 | Mangrove forests and mangrove rice in Guinea-Bissau: Stories of (dis)entanglement | III International Meeting Histories of Nature and Environments: More Than Just Biodiversity
Politécnico de Leiria - Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar (ESTM) (Peniche, Portugal)
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2022/10 | Exploring methodological approaches for citizen science: sharing experiences from a pilot initiative in the social sciences | European Citizen Science Association (ECSA 2022)
(Berlin, Germany)
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2022/10 | Algumas linhas de investigação em ecologia, recursos naturais e sustentabilidade ambiental na Guiné-Bissau [Possibilities of research in ecology and sustainability in Guinea-Bissau] | XXIII Encontro de Estudos Ambientais dos Países de Língua Portuguesa
(Tomar, Portugal)
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2022/07 | Challenges and opportunities for citizen science in education: preliminary results from a pilot citizen social science project | Porto International Conference on Research in Education
(Porto, Portugal)
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2022/06 | Assessing transitions to a just Circular Economy through humility: A multidimensional framework | XIV International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics
(Pisa, Italy)
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2022 | Soil, vegetation and cropland interactions in the shores of Guinea-Bissau, West Africa | Encontro cE3c 2022
(Tereira, Açores, Portugal)
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2021/10/25 | Catastrophic tales of blame in nature conservation and climate change | RAI2021: Anthropology and Conservation
Royal Anthropological Institute (London, United Kingdom)
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2021/08/31 | Farming rice at the margins in West Africa | 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association
European Sociological Association
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2020/03/03 | Colonialismo e clima afogando arroz: Vulnerabilidade e resistência nos mangais do sul da Guiné-Bissau. [Colonialism and climate overflooding rice fields: Vulnerability and resistance in the mangroves of southern Guinea-Bissau] | International Seminar on Environment ad Society: Current Challenges and Pathways to Change.
Institute of Social Studies, University of Lisbon, Portugal (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2018/10/04 | Wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) attacks on children in Guinea-Bissau | VI Iberian Primatological Conference
(Burgos, Spain)
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2017/05/17 | Notes on a teaching experience: Contribution to discussing the challenges of scientific writing | Workshop: Communication in Science
Universidade Lusófona da Guiné-Bissau (Bissau, Guinea-Bissau)
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2016/08/23 | Accessing resources in protected areas: an example from Guinea-Bissau | L’Afrique émergente. Dynamiques politiques de la croissance et du développement
Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland)
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2016/03/14 | Filming together: informality, exchange and storytelling in Guinea-Bissau | Atelier de réalisation de film documentaire en géographie politique et culturelle
University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland)
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2016/01/11 | Narratives about chimpanzees: Bush, kin and witchcraft in southern Guinea-Bissau. | Pathways Kenya, Integrating human dimensions into fishery and wildlife management
Pathways (Nanyuki, Kenya)
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2015/10/05 | Navigating through a study of a socialised nature. Chimpanzees, witchcraft and nature conservation | Presentation to the Department of Geography and the Environment, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Geneva
Department of Geography and the Environment, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland)
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2015/09/18 | Being anomalous and ambiguous: encountering animals in a protected area in Guinea-Bissau | Presented in Animals in the anthropocene: human-animal relations in a changing semiosphere
University of Stavenger (Stavenger, Norway)
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2015 | Analysing conservation agriculture in regard to livelihood, knowledge and resilience | Kick-off meeting of INCAA project - Innovative conservation agriculture approaches: food security and climate action through
soil and water conservation
ACT Kenya (Nairobi, Kenya)
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2015 | Transfigurações da natureza numa paisagem em contestação Cantanhez, Guiné-Bissau. | Presentation to the Dynamo research group at the University of Évora.
Dynamo research group (Évora, Portugal)
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2014 | Conter o mar com lama, paus, folhas e PVC | 2nd Meeting of Traditional and Sustainable Architecture
(Vimioso, Portugal)
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2012 | The national park and their actors: a new 'space' within a framework of other 'spaces': Cantanhez National Park, Guinea-Bissau | Seminar Series: African Environments
Oxford Brookes University (Oxford, United Kingdom)
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2008 | Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) conservation status. Distribution and numbers in the southern coastal region of Guinea-Bissau | XXII Congress of the International Primatological Society
IPS (Edimburgh, United Kingdom)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2023 - Current | Trabalho e transformação tecnológica no espaço mangal-arrozal em Mato Faroba [Labour and technologial transformation in the
mangrove-rice world in Mato Faroba]
Supervisor
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Anthropology (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
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2017 - Current | Espíritos da conservação: Património, cultura e natureza no Parque Nacional do Boé [Spirits of conservation: Heritage, culture
and nature in the Boé National Park]
Co-supervisor of Gonçalo Salvaterra
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Antropologia: Políticas e Imagens da Cultura e Museologia (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2022 - 2023 | Continuidades e transformações socioecológicas e tecnológicas na interface arrozal-mangal em Cacheu, Guiné-Bissau
Supervisor
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Studies of Environment and Sustainability (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
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2020 - 2020 | Importance of Parque Europa Lagoa N'batonha to birdlife and social perceptions of birds [Importância do Parque Europa Lagoa
N'batonha para a avifauna e percepções sociais das aves em Bissau]", da autoria de Calustre Jorge Mendes.
Supervisor
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Environmental Management (Bacherol) (Other)
Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau
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2019 - 2020 | Climate change impacts on the production of rice in Safim, Guinea-Bissau [Percepções das alterações climáticas na produção
orizícola no sector de Safim, Guiné-Bissau]
Supervisor of Dionísio Tavares
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Environmental Management (Bacherol) (Other)
Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau
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2019 - 2020 | Labour relations between women sellers (bideras) and fishermen in Bissau [Pesca artesanal no Porto Alto Bandim: Relações laborais
entre pescadores artesanais e mulheres bideras]
Supervisor of Maio Tchuda
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Environmental Management (Bachelor) (Other)
Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau
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2019 - 2020 | Sociocultural representations of marine turtles among the Bijago of Canhabaque [Percepções socioculturais dos bijagós de Canhabaque
sobre as tartarugas marinhas]
Supervisor
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Environmental Management (Bachelor) (Other)
Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau
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2019 - 2020 | Socioeconomic and environmental importance of marine birds in West Africa: the case of Ilha de Bubaque in Guinea-Bissau [Importância
socioeconómica e ambiental das aves marinhas na costa ocidental de África: O caso da Ilha de Bubaque na Guiné-Bissau]
Supervisor of Assainato Djau
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Environmental Management (Bachelor) (Other)
Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau
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2019 - 2020 | Artisanal fishing and marine resource management in the Tarrafes do Rio Cacheu Natural Park [Pesca artesanal e a gestão de
recursos marinhos no Parque Natural dos Tarrafes do Rio Cacheu]
Supervisor
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Environmental Management (Bacherol) (Other)
Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau
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2019 - 2019 | Socioenvironmental perceptions of the electric generational plant in Buba [Percepções socioeconómicas e ambientais da Centra
Termoelétrica de Buba no sul da Guiné-Bissau]
Supervisor of Nando Sambu
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Environmental Management (Bachelor) (Other)
Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau
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2018 - 2019 | The environmental history of the Alto Crim in Bissau
Supervisor of Maira da Costa
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Environmental Management (Bachelor) (Other)
Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau
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2018 - 2019 | A socioenvironmental analysis about wetlands in Bissau: A farm to cement transition
Supervisor of Habdel Tavares
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Envirnomental Management (Bachelor) (Other)
Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau
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2018 - 2019 | Artisanal fishing and conservation: The case of the Orango National Park in Guinea-Bissau
Supervisor of Benício Có
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Oceanography and Marine Resources (Bachelor) (Other)
Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau
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2018 - 2019 | Aspects of nature conservation in Bijagó tradition in Guinea-Bissau
Supervisor of Américo Sanha
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Environmental Management (Bachelor) (Other)
Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau
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2018 - 2019 | Women fishery in the wetlands of Bissau: livelihoods and environmental services
Supervisor of Alassana Camara
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Environmental Management (Bachelor) (Other)
Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau
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2017 - 2018 | Chimpanzee nesting preferences, nest distribution and conservation challenges in Nova Sintra, Guinea-
Bissau. (Funding from the American Society of Primatology, 2017, Conservation Small Grants)
Co-supervisor of Salvatore Izzo
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Ecology (Master)
University of Piza, Italy
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2023/11/02 - 2023/11/03 | International seminar entitled "The Climate Crisis and Guinea-Bissau: Ruptures, Continuities and Uncertainties" organised
in the context of the MARGINS research project (2023/11/02 - 2023/11/03)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Centre for Social Studies, Univ Coimbra, Portugal Amilcar Cabral University, Guinea-Bissau |
2023/11/02 - 2023/11/02 | Round table entitled "Crisis and transdisciplinariy in image I - Photography" inspired by the work of Joana Roque de Pinho
(ISCTE): "Fotos di mudansa”: Alterações ambientais retratadas por agricultores do sul da Guiné-Bissau" published in Sintidus,
2020, pp. 105-134 (2023/11/02 - 2023/11/03)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Centre for Social Studies, Univ Coimbra, Portugal Amilcar Cabral University, Guinea-Bissau |
2022/02/01 - 2022/02/01 | Organized a session of Roda de Saberes IV [Seminars on Methodologies]: "Environmental Humanities and Contested Natures" together
with Patrícia Vieira (2022/02/01 - 2022/02/01)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Centre for Social Studies, Univ Coimbra, Portugal |
2021/11/25 - 2021/11/29 | Co-chair (with Andrew Ainslie) of two panels (I & II): The present-day politics of biodiversity conservation in sub-Saharan
Africa circa 2021 (2021/11/25 - 2021/11/29)
Conference (Other)
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Royal Anthropological Institute, United Kingdom |
2021/11/19 - 2021/11/20 | Co-organizer of the JUST2CE workshop "Key concepts and approaches for critical Circular Economy research" and Co-chair in
the session "Decolonising methods" with Stefania Barca (2021/11/19 - 2021/11/19)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Centre for Social Studies, Univ Coimbra, Portugal |
2021/09/13 - 2021/09/17 | Co-chair of the panel "GT66: Realidades situadas e imaginadas: Perspetivas sobre a circulação de saberes na Guiné-Bissau"
together with Marinho Pina and Luísa Acabado. XIV Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro (CONLAB 2021) (2021/09/15 - 2021/09/17)
Conference (Other)
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Associação Internacional de Ciências Sociais e Humanas de Língua Portuguesa, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2023/12/15 - 2023/12/15 | Discussant in the seminar: '“This land is barren, we take it and make something of it”: Environmental imaginaries and community
marginalization in the Jordanian Badia' by Taraf Abu Handam (Central European University)
Seminar
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Ecology and Society Lab Seminars / Seminários da Oficina Ecologia e Sociedade (ECOSOC)
Centre for Social Studies, Univ Coimbra, Portugal
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2023/06/15 - 2023/06/15 | Sousa, J., Sá Rego, J., Lopes Fernandes, M., (2023). Mesa-redonda: Crítica e Prática da Conservação da Natureza. [Rountable:
Critiscism and a praxis of nature conservation]. Ciclo de Seminários CRIA: Diálogos de Antropologia Pública. Organização:
António Maria Puscedddu, Gonçalo Salvaterra, Patrícia Alves de Matos, Susana Silva & Vanessa Iglesias Amorim. Instituto Universitário
(ISCTE), Lisboa, Portugal
Round table
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Ciclo de Seminários CRIA: Diálogos de Antropologia Pública
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), Portugal |
2023/06/07 - 2023/06/09 | Participation in the Consortium Meeting of JUST2CE project: Gonçalves, J., Sousa, J., & D'Alisa, G. "Voices from the cases:
Minga", presented by Jorge Gonçalves. Barcelona, Spain (+ online)
Other
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JUST2CE Consortium Meeting
Universidade de Vigo, Spain
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2022/05/28 - 2022/05/28 | Partipation at the Bienal of Arts of Coimbra: Discussant of presentation by Maria Paula Meneses (CES-UC): "Witchcraft as knowledge production" https://21-22.anozero-bienaldecoimbra.pt/en/events/feiticaria-como-campo-de-conhecimento | Bienal de Artes de Coimbra
Anozero, Portugal
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2021/03 - 2021/03 | Presentation at the Reading Group session organised by the Ecology and Society Lab: "Rice refugia and rice root systems"
Seminar
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ECOSOC Seminars - Reading group
Centre for Social Studies, Univ Coimbra, Portugal
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2019/09/22 - 2019/09/22 | Participation at the round of seminars "Pensando a complexidade da pandemia na acoplagem dos sistemas socioambientais"
Seminar
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Ciclo de Seminários Online: Conversas desconfinadas
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
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2019/05/09 - 2019/05/09 | Participation in a critical analysis of a text by Amílcar Cabral "Analysing certain types of resistance" in the context of
the project "Amílcar Cabral, from political history to the politics of the memory"
Seminar
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Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
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2015 - 2015 | Presentation entitled "Analysing conservation agriculture in regard to livelihood, knowledge and resilience"
Round table
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Kick-off meeting of INCAA project - Innovative conservation agriculture approaches: food security and climate action through
soil and water conservation
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2023/12/11 | Referee in the MSc defense: "O uso do solo e os regimes de fogo entre 1975 e 2019, à escala da freguesia: Peravelha, Aldeia
de Nacomba e Ariz (Moimenta da Beira) e Alferce (Monchique)". Supervisors: Ana Isabel Queiroz, Rui Pedro Julião (Department
of Geography, NOVA FCSH).
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Inês Costa (Master)
NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), Portugal
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2023/06 | Referee in the defense of the doctoral research project: “As contradições da agricultura moderna em territórios indígenas
do cerrado: o caso Haliti”. Supervisors: Kátia Torres Ribeiro, Gustavo García-López
(Thesis) Arguer
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Marcelo Lopes (PhD)
Centre for Social Studies, Univ Coimbra, Portugal
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2022/07 | Referee in the defense of the doctoral research project: “Integrated assessment of ecological and human dimensions in the
functional dynamics of Atlantic mangroves: Studies in the Tarrafes do Rio Cacheu Natural Park (Guinea-Bissau)”. Supervisors:
Helena Freitas, António Gouveia.
(Thesis) Arguer
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Arthur Sousa (PhD)
Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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2021/07 | Referee of the PhD proposal “Changing like the tides. Culture, politics and learning in the water management of mangrove rice production in Guinea-Bissau” by Joseph Sandoval (WIMEK Graduate School of Wageningen University, The Netherlands) | Joseph Sandoval (PhD)
WIMEK Graduate School of Wageningen Universiry, Netherlands
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Ad Hoc journal article review
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2023/10 - Current | PlosOne |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2023 - Current | RISE-CES - Risk(s), Ecologies, Health, https://ces.uc.pt/en/ces/linhas/rise | Researcher |
2023 - Current | CC.EDU - Working Group on Citizen Science and Education | Researcher |
2019/05/01 - Current | Ecology and Society Lab / Oficina Ecologia e Sociedade (ECOSOC) | Researcher |
2018 - Current | Society for Human Ecology | |
2016/05 - 2016/07 | European Association of Environmental History | |
2014/08 - 2016/07 | Chão-de-Gente |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2023/05/16 - 2023/05/19 | 8th International Wildland Fire Conference (Wildfire 2023). Governance Principles: towards an International Framework. | AGIF, Agência para a Gestão Integrada de Fogos Rurais |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2022 - 2022 | Lecture in the Doctoral Program in Political Economy directed by Ana Cristina Costa at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. The lecture was delivered in collaboration with Jorge Gonçalves (Minga, Integral Cooperative, Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal). Title: "Through plurality and humility, A research perspective to understand situated CE: Perspectives from Minga" | Political Economy (Doutoramento) | Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal |
2016/10/01 - 2019/04/30 | Ecologia Humana | Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente (Licence) | Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau |
2016/10/01 - 2019/04/30 | Redação e Elaboração de Projeto | Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente (Licence) | Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau |
2016/10/01 - 2019/04/30 | Metodologias de Comunicação Científica I, | Ciências da Terra e do Mar (Licence) | Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau |
2017/10/01 - 2018/07/31 | Ecology-Evolution | (Bachelor) | Escola Normal Superior Tchico Té, Guinea-Bissau |
2016/10/01 - 2018/03/15 | Metodologias de Comunicação Científica II | Énvironmental Sciences (Licence) | Universidade Lusófona da Guiné, Guinea-Bissau |
2016 - 2016 | Participation (10 min) in the MOOC "Frontieres en tous genres" (Political and Cultural Geography), University of Geneva https://www.coursera.org/learn/geographie-politique-culturelle-frontieres |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2021/06 - 2021/06 | Participation as a referee for hiring a post-doctoral researcher for the project “A Just Transition to the Circular Economy
– JUST2CE” namely to the task "Circular Economy in the context of the Global Environmental Justice Movement” coordinated by
Stefania Barca
Member
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Centre for Social Studies, Univ Coimbra, Portugal | European Commission |
2021/06 - 2021/06 | Participation as a referee for hiring a post-doctoral researcher for the project “A Just Transition to the Circular Economy
– JUST2CE” namely to the task "Labour in the transition to circular economy” coordinated by Stefania Barca
Member
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Centre for Social Studies, Univ Coimbra, Portugal | European Commission |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2023 | Interviewed by James Stevens, Programme Officer of FAO/UICN:Human-Wildlife Conflict & Coexistance Specialist Group about my PhD research. The interview gave rise to the publication: "Navigating cultural narratives to provide meeting to a human-wildlife conflict situation" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xxdECEIXufuraoL8low97F8dGMZ8t6V3/view | Human-wildlife conflict and coexistence case studies |
Interview (tv / radio show)
Program | Topic | |
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2022/07/30 - Current | Interview to radio program and podcast: “Há vida(s) nesta cidade” by Rádio Universitária de Coimbra (RUC). Episode: "Social response to the environmental crisis: Reinventing the relation with nature", with António Carvalho, Gonçalo Canto Moniz and Joana Sousa (CES-UC). A collaboration between RUC e CES-UC. |
Distinctions
Award
2015 | Best documentary award
Fundação INATEL, Portugal
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Other distinction
2015 | Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Scholars and Artists for the Academic Year 2015-2016
Bourses d’excellence de la Confédération suisse , Switzerland
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2012 | Young People and Agri-Food Theme Small Grants
Future Agricultures Consortium, University of Sussex, Portugal
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2009 | Grant by the Primate Society of Great Britain
Primate Society of Great Britain, Portugal
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2009 | Rufford Small Grants
The Rufford Foundation, Portugal
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