The Gender Workshop's Feminist Talks aim to showcase the lives and work of people from the most diverse areas of activity, with a focus on gender equality and women's issues. This session will feature Isabel Dias in conversation with Marina Faria on issues such as gender-based violence, violence against the elderly, equality in the workplace, women's work and occupational health.

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Isabel Dias | Full Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP) and Researcher at the Institute of Sociology (IS-UP). Her research activity has centred on domestic and gender-based violence, ageing, elder abuse, women's work and occupational health. She is the author of several books, including the following: Violência na Família. Uma abordagem Sociológica [Violence in the Family. A Sociological Approach.] Porto: Edições Afrontamento, which has two editions (2004; 2010); Violência Doméstica e de Género: Uma abordagem multidisciplinar [Domestic and Gender Violence: A multidisciplinary approach.] Lisbon: Pactor (2018) (Ed.).

She has participated in and coordinated various national and international research projects. For example, she coordinated the project “HARMED - Socio-economic and health determinants of elder abuse” (2014-2020); Cleaning in times of pandemic: between precariousness and health risks for cleaning service workers; (2022), both funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She is currently the researcher in charge of the project RESET – “Redesigning Equality and Scientific Excellence Together”, funded by the European Commission's H2020 Programme. She is also a member of the research teams of the projects IQUAL_CAMPUS - Sistema conjunto de formacion Trasnfronteriza em Igualdad de Genero Laboral (Programa de Cooperación Interreg España-Portugal (POCTEP) (2024-2026) and ‘Erasmus+60 Cooperation Partnerships in higher education’ (KA2). She is a member of the General Council of the University of Porto, Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto and Director of the Master's Programme in Sociology at the same Faculty. She was deputy director of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto between 2016 and 2019.

Marina Dias de Faria is a PhD candidate in Feminist Studies at the University of Coimbra and a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Social Studies of the same institution (2018-2019). She has a PhD in Business Administration from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2015), a Master's in Business Administration from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2010) and an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from UFRJ (2008). She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and an Assistant Professor at the Portuguese Institute of Marketing Administration in Lisbon. Her research covers Disability Studies, focusing on issues such as consumption, social exclusion, and public policies aimed at people with disabilities. Marina is also the author of several articles and book chapters in the areas of inclusion, feminism, and social marketing, as well as acting as a project supervisor and academic advisor at various institutions.