EDE was funded by the European Commission and involved researchers from all 27 European Union member States. The main goal of EDE was to collect, analyse and provide independent scientific data and information relating to national policies and legislation, linked with provisions at EU level, as well as providing information about the situationof people with disabilities. The project focused on the expertise of existing disability research centres,supported by national experts, thematic rapporteurs and links to relevant networks in the disability policy field. CIEG's researcher, Paula Campos Pinto, was the coordinator of the project's Portuguese team.
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Vera Duarte has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Minho. She has taught at the University of Minho, the Portuguese Catholic University and has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Maia (UMaia) since 2011. She is a researcher at the Criminology and Behavioural Sciences Research Unit (UICCC/UMAIA, Portugal).
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Pedro Alexandre Costa has a degree in clinical psychology from ISPA, a master's degree in child development psychology from the University of Central Lancashire and a PhD in psychology from UBI on an FCT scholarship. He is an Assistant Professor and Researcher at the Human Sexuality Group of the Psychology Centre of the University of Porto (CPUP), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto.
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Patrícia Candeias Neca has a degree in Journalism (UCoimbra) and Psychology, a postgraduate degree in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies (ISCTE-IUL), a Master's degree in Social and Organisational Psychology and a PhD in Psychology with a speciality in Social Psychology. She is a research assistant at the Disability and Human Rights Observatory.
Her areas of interest are social representations; social stereotypes; disability and press analysis.
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Cátia Ponteadeira has a PhD in European Criminology from the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto (FDUP), a Masters in Forensic Science from London South Bank University and a degree in Criminology from the University of Maia. She is a lecturer at the University of Maia (UMaia), the University of Minho (UMinho) and the Porto School of Nursing. She has been a researcher on more than 14 international projects with competitive funding.
It is a science and technology network funded over a four-year period and developing networking tools to meet the research coordination and capacity building objetives set out in the COST Action's Memorandum of Understanding. Its Grant Holder is Université de Picardie Jules Verne, and CIEG's integrated researcher is a member of this network. WEMov is an international network of researchers from 52 countries, who are engaged in unveiling women migrants' presence and participation in the construction of Europe. As an interdisciplinary network, it combines a wide variety of expertise in history, sociology, demography, economy, anthropology, political science and the arts, among others, with the intention of fostering complementay perspectives showing women migrants' presence, obstacles and capacities in past and present migratory contexts.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts for CIEG's III International Congress, Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies: Knowledge, Public Policies and Social Justice has been extended until October 15th 2023.
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