Speakers' Bio Notes

Viviane Teixeira Gomes
Associate Professor at the Institute of Chemistry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is one of the coordinators of the IQ/UFRJ Chemistry Teaching Laboratory and coordinates the outreach and research project ‘Girls in Chemistry’. She is doing postdoctoral research at CES, under the supervision of Rosa Monteiro, and her interest lies in public education policies for the inclusion of girls in the Exact and Natural Sciences and Technologies in Brazilian public education.

Rosa Monteiro
Sociologist, researcher at CES and Associate Professor at FEUC. She served as Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality between 2017 and 2022. Her work focuses on public policies for equality and resistance to their implementation, as well as the impact of gender relations at work and in society.

Mariana Santos
BA in International Relations from FEUC, Master's in Public and Political Communication from Sciences Po Bordeaux and in Sociology from FEUC. Currently a PhD student in Sociology at FEUC. Her research focuses on the instrumentalisation of issues related to women's rights and the mobilisation of gender issues by radical right-wing parties.

Inês Simões
Master's degree in Sociology from FEUC with the thesis ‘Para um ensino das CTEM e das TIC com perspetiva de género: uma análise de práticas e de ausências’ [Towards a gender-sensitive teaching of STEM and ICT: an analysis of practices and absences]. Her research has focused on the resistance and difficulties surrounding the integration of a gender perspective in STEM-related activities. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Sociology at the same institution.

Camila Marques
BA in Management from FEUC. Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Sociology at FEUC. Her research focuses on the critical analysis of the teaching of Artificial Intelligence in the Portuguese university context, with special attention to how ethical and gender dimensions are (or are not) integrated into curricula, pedagogical practices and institutional strategies. Her work falls within the field of critical AI studies and is based on contributions from feminist AI and the sociology of technology.

Mariana Amado
BA in Education Sciences from the University of Porto, Master's student in Social Intervention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Coimbra. Her research interests focus on public education policies, social representations of youth and the application of participatory qualitative methodologies for the co-construction of democratic and inclusive knowledge.

Daniela Lebre
BA in Political Science and International Relations from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH-UNL), Master's degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC) and currently a PhD candidate in Sociology at the same institution. Her research, within the field of gender studies and political sociology, focuses on the mobilisation of network theory to analyse gender inequalities in political participation at the local level.

Beatriz Gomes
BA in Artistic Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and Master's degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. Her research, within the field of gender studies and educational pedagogy, focuses on understanding how informal educational processes, specifically TUMO, can contribute to horizontal sexual desegregation in STEM areas.