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He has a Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Engineering (ISA-UTL), a Master's degree in Business Management and a PhD in Sociology (ISCTE-IUL). He was a researcher at NÚMENA and is currently an integrated researcher at the Centre for Research in Theology and Religion Studies (UCP). He works mainly on religious beliefs, practices and attitudes among young people.

PhD in Political Science (FCT), specialising in Political Theory and Analysis (FCSH/Nova; UFSC). Between 2014 and 2016, he was a PhD fellow of the European Union's Erasmus Mundus Action 2 programme at UFSC.

She holds a PhD in Sociology with a thesis on religious pluralism in Portuguese society and is a professor at the University of Porto School of Arts and Humanities.
She is a member of the executive committee of the Sociology department at this school and a researcher at the university, taking part in projects such as the EUREL project, which provides sociological and legal data on religion in Europe.
She studies the revitalisation of local churches in Europe, particularly in Portugal, and online religious expression.
She also researches issues related to legislation on religious freedom, new forms of religion and Catholicism in Portugal, religious minorities and Protestant and evangelical communities.
She has lectured at Uppsala University, Sweden, and was elected a member of the Council of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion.

Last updated: December 2018

Sociologist, senior researcher at CESIS – Centro de Estudos para a Intervenção Social. Over the years, he has participated in numerous national and international research projects in the areas of poverty and social exclusion, social protection and social policies, among others. He currently represents Portugal in the European Network on Social Policy and in the team responsible for the Feasibility Study for the Creation of a European Guarantee for Vulnerable Children and is co-coordinator of the Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policies section of the Portuguese Sociological Association. He has co-authored around 50 publications.

Last updated: April 2021

With a PhD in Mathematics, specialising in Probability and Statistics, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of the Azores and an integrated member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS.Nova.UAçores and CICS.UAc). His main research interests include data analysis, especially multivariate data analysis, applied to the Social Sciences, covering multiple themes associated with local and regional development. He participates in several research projects and is co-author of several books and articles, both national and international.

She has a PhD in Sociology: Labour relations, social inequalities and trade unionism (FEUC, 2019), a Master's degree in Sociology (ISCTE, 2011) and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology (University of Minho, 1998). She has been an integrated researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-ISCTE since 2013 and has worked with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS.Nova.UAçores and CICS.UAc) since 2019. She has addressed topics such as: (un)employment, conflict and collective action; temporary work and collective bargaining; participatory reflection with marginalised groups; (under)valuation of work; poverty and inequalities; gender and immigration.

Last updated: April 2021

PhD in Child Studies, specialising in Sociology of Childhood. Researcher at the Prochild CoLAB against Poverty and Social Exclusion. External consulting member of CIEC, University of Minho. Her research focuses on children's rights, participation, public policies with an emphasis on child poverty and children's relationship with urban space, among others. She is co-coordinator of the Sociology of Childhood section of the Portuguese Sociological Association and works with the child poverty working group in the Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN).

He has a PhD in Social Work, specialising in Social Policy and Social Movements. He is an associate professor at the Catholic University of Portugal School of Social Sciences and a researcher at the Católica Research Centre for Individual, Family and Social Well-Being. He is a member of the European Social Work Research Association's Social Work, History and Research and Social Work and Policy Practice research groups. His research focuses on poverty studies and public policies, especially citizenship social protection policies and social minimums. He participated as a researcher in the Adequate Income in Portugal project.

Last update. May 2021

He currently works as an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department of the University of Minho Institute of Social Sciences and is also an integrated researcher at CICS.Nova at the University of Minho.
Recently, he was part of the research team for the project "Poverty in Portugal: Trajectories and daily life", funded by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos and coordinated by Fernando Diogo (University of the Azores).
Capitalism and development, urban issues such as housing and lifestyles and academic success are some of his main research topics, on which he has published several books and articles in national and foreign magazines.
He has a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, and an aggregate degree in Sociology from Nova University Lisbon.

Last updated: October 2021

A sociologist with a PhD in Sociology of Education, she is an assistant professor in the Sociology department at the University of the Azores and a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS.Nova.UAçores and CICS.UAc). Her main research interests focus on the sociology of childhood and the sociology of education. She has carried out various research projects and published on the relationship between young people and education and the world of work.