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This seminar will present the results of the project Pandemic and Academia at home - what effects on teaching, research and career? Study on changes in the higher education and research system (FCT 077/2020), coordinated by Virgínia Ferreira (FEUC/CES). With interventions from Virgínia Ferreira, Mónica Lopes (CES), Caynnã Santos (CES) and Cristina C. Vieira (UC/CEAD-UAlg).

Organisers: Adult Education and Community Intervention Research Centre (CEAD-UAlg) and Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES-UC)

Link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/J/81585993612?pwd=U29JaDIEMURObTdlaWUySUFtOVRRQT09
 

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Virgínia Ferreira is Associate Professor of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and researcher at the Center for Social Sciences. The common theme in her body of work is the analysis of how the social relationships between men and women in a society are shaped and re-shaped by various social processes and structures, namely: shifting economic and political conditions; technological revolution; labour market regulations, welfare state regimes and other societal institutions; and the attitudes, plans and behaviour of women and men in the domestic sphere. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, her research has focused on the feminization of occupations, the changing patterns of sexual segregation of overall labour market and employment, and to the evolution of public and European equality policies. Member of the editorial board of national and international journals of social sciences and women's studies. Founding member of the Portuguese Association of Women's Studies. Since 2004, is a member of the European Commission Expert Group on Gender and Employment. Published work includes articles and essays in national and international periodicals and collective books.

Mónica Lopes is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) and member of the Research Groups on Social Policies, Labor and Inequalities (POSTRADE). She holds a PhD degree in Sociology from Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra. Her current research interests include gender relations, gender policies, social policies, (impact) evaluation and third sector. She has participated in several research/evaluation projects related to gender equality, corporative social responsibility, and civil society organizations. Most recently, she was a member of the research team of the project "Local Gender Equality", funded by the EEA GRANTS, which provided methodologies and tools for the gender equality mainstreaming of policies, processes, and practices at the local level, and was co-coordinator of the impact evaluation study of a pilot project to promote the desegregation of career choices within secondary school students. Currently, she is the principal investigator of the H2020 project "SUPERA - Supporting the Promotion of Equality in Research and Academia".

Caynnã Santos holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Coimbra, a Master's degree in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo and an undergraduate degree also from USP. Currently, he is part of the project funded by FCT "ENGENDER: Gender mainstreaming in curricula and pedagogical practices in Portuguese Public Universities" at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. He has developed research and published in the areas of Women's, Gender and Feminist Studies, working mainly on the following themes: sociology of gender relations, post-structuralist feminist theories, cultural pedagogies of gender and new feminist perspectives on the body.

Cristina C. Vieira has a degree in Psychology and a PhD in Educational Sciences from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra, where she is an Associate Professor. She has more than three decades of university teaching experience in the area of scientific research methodologies. She is an integrated member of the Centre for Research in Adult Education and Community Intervention (CEAD) at the University of Algarve. Member of the Board of the European Society for Research in Adult Education (ESREA), of the Portuguese Society of Educational Sciences (SPCE) and of the Portuguese Association of Women's Studies (APEM). She is part of the National Education Council as representative of women's non-governmental organisations (NGOsM). She participates regularly with the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in evaluation panels for projects and applications for research grants in the area of Education Sciences.