Interviewer: Irina Castro (CES)


About

The Gender Workshop continues the “Feminist Talks” with people from different areas of intervention and work in the field of gender equality and women's dignity and wellbeing in Portugal and Spain. The interviews will allow us to map relevant work carried out in our country and in the neighbouring country, not only in the academy, in the sciences, but also in activism, the arts, care, work, trade unionism, etc. This talk's guest is Joana Canedo, interviewed by Irina Castro

Bio notes 

Joana Canêdo | Activist for the rights of people who use drugs. She is part of the Executive Committee of EuroNPUD (European Network of People who Use Drugs). In Portugal, Joana is working with women and non-binary people who use drugs and do sex work, co-creating the collective Manas/ GAT. An expert in drug policy reform, harm reduction and public policy, she works from intersectionality to achieve effective public policies, especially focusing on bottom-up approaches. PhD candidate for Development Studies at ICS. Interested in research that focuses on community inclusion in the design, implementation and monitoring of innovative programmes. Degree in Political Science and International Relations and Master in Economics and Public Policy.

Irina Castro |  Irina Castro works at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. In 2009, Castro graduated in Applied Ecology at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. In 2011 she got her MSc in Environmental Engineering, and the same year, she joined CES as a research fellow for the project "BIOSENSE | Science engaging society: Life Sciences Social Sciences and Publics", coordinated by João Arriscado Nunes. Since then, she has collaborated in developing, promoting, and evaluating science communication initiatives and promoting science-society relations, focusing on the relationship between society and biotechnology. In 2022 the completed her PhD in the programme Governance, Knowledge, and Innovation (sociology branch), in which she developed a thesis about the ontological construction of transgenic seeds through the practices of scientists and their scientific controversies. She works closely on this with João Arriscado Nunes (CES-FEUC), Rita Serra (CES), and Raúl García-Barrios, the latter researcher at the Multidisciplinary Research Centre of the Autonomous University of Mexico (CRIM / UNAM). Between 2014-2017, she worked as a project manager at the CES Project Management Office, returning to this role in 2020.