Biography

Mónica Lopes is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) integrating the Thematic Line 2 - Democracy, Justice and Human Rights. She holds a Ph.D. 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. Since 2002, she has participated in several research/evaluation projects exploring gender (equality) issues. 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 leads the Portuguese team of the H2020 project "SUPERA - Supporting the Promotion of Equality in Research and Academia", is responsible for the scientific review of the EEAGrants project "Gender Equal-Research", co-PI of the national project "ENGENDER - Gender mainstreaming in curricula and pedagogical practices in Portuguese Public Universities and member of the research team of the European project "PHOENIX - Listening to Citizen Voices for a Greener Europe".