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He has been a journalist since 1988 in the fields of the environment, science and data journalism. He is the author of the books "Sobre a Terra", an environmental guide, and "Nós no Mundo", about sustainability.

Last updated: January 2017

Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Nova University Lisbon (FCSH/UNL), she has a PhD in Sociology, specialising in Demography. She was director of PORDATA – Database of Contemporary Portugal, a project of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, where she also coordinated the scientific area of Population. She has held management positions in various public bodies in the Ministries of Education and Science, Technology and Higher Education. She is a member of the Statistical Council and a member of the Executive Board of the European Statistical Advisory Committee. She is the author and coordinator of numerous published studies on Portuguese society, including "Portugal and Europe: the numbers", "Ageing of Portuguese Society", "Immigrant contributions to Portuguese demography: the role of foreign nationality populations" and "Being born in Portugal" (multimedia work), among others.

Last updated: February 2019

Researcher at CoLABOR – Social Protection/Economy and Solidarity. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL and a Master's degree in Bioethics from the University of Lisbon School of Medicine. She has a postgraduate degree in Sociology of Health and Illness, as well as in Data Analysis in Social Sciences, from ISCTE-IUL. She has advanced training in Applied Project Management from Nova SBE, in Bioethics from the Yale Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioethics and in English Language and Culture from the Oxford Royale Academy.

Last updated: March 2022

Researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Ageing.

Last updated: March 2022

Assistant Researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology (1999), a Postgraduate Diploma in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies (2001) and a PhD in Sociology (2010) from ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon. His current research interests focus on the Sociology of Health and Medicine, the Sociology of Ageing and the Sociology of Communication and Mass Media. He has carried out studies on access to, assessment of and attitudes towards the Health System in Portugal and on behaviour and attitudes towards therapeutic adherence; he has also studied how health and the Health System are represented in the Portuguese media, as well as access to and use of information sources for health literacy. Population ageing is another area of research that he has devoted himself to in recent years, particularly on aspects related to health, well-being and quality of life.

Last updated: March 2022

Assistant researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Nova University Lisbon (1984) and has a PhD in Sociology from Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (1999). He was a member of the ICS Board of Directors (1998-2004) and a member of the board of the Portuguese Sociological Association (2000-2002). He has worked on the themes of identities, values and ways of life. His main research projects are currently the study of Portuguese sexuality in the context of AIDS and a survey on the sources of sexual education of Portuguese young people.

Last updated: March 2022

Sociologist. Research coordinator at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon, 1969. PhD in Sociology from the University of Oxford, 1978.

Legal consultant at the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Health. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Law and a Master's degree in Health Management. Guest lecturer at the National School of Public Health between 2010 and 2016, giving seminars on Ethics Committees and Health Authorities on PhD and Master's programmes and Specialisation courses in Hospital Administration.

Last updated: March 2022

Nurse specialising in community nursing and assistant professor at the Viana do Castelo Nursing School.

Last updated: March 2022

Assistant Professor at the University of Minho, Department of Sociology, Institute of Social Sciences. Researcher at the University of Minho Communication and Society Research Centre. PhD in Sociology in 2009 from the University of Minho. Pedagogical Aptitude and Scientific Capacity Tests in 1998 at the University of Minho. Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering and Computer Science in 1989 from the University of Minho.

Last updated: March 2022