Rita Serra


Biography

Rita Serra, biologist, PhD. Researcher at CES since 2008. Currently, I am the coordinator of the project AUTICORPOS - Giving body to mental health in autism, co-financed by INR - National Institute for Rehabilitation - and member of the board of APVA - Associação Portuguesa Voz do Autista. My interests span science and technology studies, diversity and commons, participatory research, and user-centered research. I am interested in first-person perspectives on autism and the participation of autistic people in autism and neurodiversity research. I write fiction and non-fiction essays and stories for blogs, newspapers and Revista Osso. Selected works: Benedetto M, Serra R, Rocha, R (2023), Being autistic in Portugal: don't cry for us, cry for yourselves, P3 Público, April 4; Serra, R (2022) Normalizing autism - the challenge of medical research in the light of neurodiversity, APVA; Sierra, R (2020). Being Food, CES Workshop, (456), 1-14; Serra, R & Allegretti, G (2020). Democracies in common places: stories from baldios and 'fire-tales' in Portugal, Scienze del Territorio, 8, 91-109; Serra, R and García-Barrios, R (2019), The Faustian social contract and the fictional ethics of contemporary capitalism, Barreda Marín, A, Valencia, LE and Espinoza Hernández, R (Eds.), Political economy of environmental devastation and environmental conflicts in Mexico, Faculty of Economics, UNAM, Ithaca; Serra R, Rodrigues E, & García-Barrios R (2017). Mushrooming communities: a field guide to mycology in the community forests of Portugal, Sustainability, 9(6), 924.


Latest Publications

Book

Carmo, Milena do; Moura, Tatiana; Batista, Filipa; Rentzou, Konstantina; Serra, Rita; Batista, Sofia; Moutinho, Teresa; Prazeres, Vasco; Trikic, Zorica (orgs.) (2021), Manual Parent: Paternidades envolvidas e cuidadoras: da Teoria à Prática. Coimbra: CES

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Article in Scientific journal

Castro, Irina; Serra, Rita (2020), "A dissidência científica no feminino: contributos para a proposta tecnocientífica do ecossocialismo", e-cadernos CES, 34, 226-236

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Article in Scientific journal

Serra, Rita; Allegretti, Giovanni (2020), "Democracies in common places: stories from baldios and 'fire-tales' in Portugal", Scienze del Territorio, 8, 91-109

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