PEOPLE
Coordination
Verónica Policarpo
ICS-ULisboa
With a PhD in Sociology, I am a social researcher in the field of Human-Animal Studies, at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, where I coordinate the Human-Animal Studies Hub, since 2018. In 2022 I was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to study how animals recover from disasters, in particular wildfires. The ERC project ABIDE: Animal Abidings: recovering from Disasters in more-than-human communities,will run between 1 May 2023 and 30 April 2028.
Before that, I coordinated projects"Liminal Becomings: reframing human-animal relations in natural disasters". [CEECIND/02719/2017]",on animals in disasters; and"CLAN: Children-Animals' Friendships: challenging boundaries between humans and non-humans in contemporary societies (PTDC/SOC 28415/2017)", on children and companion animals. In all my projects, I am interested in the construction of a more-than-human approach in which all living beings are considered as full partners, with equivalent rights.
At ICS-ULisboa I also coordinate since 2020 the post-graduate course"Animais e Sociedade" ; the International Summer-School in Human Animal Studies (co-coordination with Malärden University, Sweden), since 2019; the Reading Group Animal Wonder, since 2018; and the webinar"The Post-Human-Animal".
At ICS, I also participate in the SHIFT Research Group (Environment, Territory and Society) and the LIFE Research Group (Life Course, Inequality and Solidarity: Practices and Policies).
Members
Ana Nunes de Almeida
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Sociologist and a researcher at the ICS-ULisboa. Her favourite sicentific themes are: children and childhood, family and schooling, children and animals, new ethical dilemmas in the research with children. She is currently the chair of the Scientific Council at ICS-ULisboa and a member of the Directive Commitee of the RN04 Children and Childhood, European Sociological Asssociation).
Mónica Truniger
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Socióloga no ICS-ULisboa. Tem-se dedicado à investigação, ensino e comunicação das práticas sociais alimentares através de pesquisas sobre pobreza alimentar, consumo alimentar sustentável e hábitos alimentares de famílias com crianças. Tem vários títulos publicados alusivos a estas temáticas em editoras portuguesas e internacionais.
Vasco Ramos
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Vasco Ramos (Lisbon, 1976), is a postdoctoral researcher, with a PhD in Sociology from the University of Lisbon. Among other interests, his research has focused on issues such as social inequality, class and mobility, and family sociology. More recently, he has focused on food, food practices and human-animal studies. Currently, he is a researcher at CLAN, conducting ethnographic work with children and pets, with interest in understanding how specific categorisations of non-human animals relate to food practices and preferences.
Since 2009 he has worked on several projects at ICS-UL, namely on a research project on family trajectories and social networks, coordinated by Karin Wall. Currently, he is part of the Life research group LIFE – Life Course, Inequality and Solidarities: Practices and Policies. He also collaborates with OFAP - Observatory of Families and Family Policies. As a postdoc researcher, he was part of the Portuguese team working on the ERC funded research project Families and Food in Hard Times. Since August 2017, he is developing a research project (based on an individual post-doctoral fellowship from the FCT) entitled Living with Uncertainty: Enduring Precariousness over the life course.
Teresa Líbano Monteiro
Investigadora Associada ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Teresa Líbano Monteiro é doutorada em sociologia (ISCTE-IUL) (2007). Lecionou Teorias Sociológicas e Métodos de Investigação na Faculdade de Ciências Humanas da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (1993-2017). Em 2013, esteve no Centre Max Weber (Lyon- France) para desenvolver investigação na àrea dos Human-Animal Studies.
Joana Catela
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Joana Catela studied Social Anthropology at FCSH-Nova and Latin American Studies at Cambridge University. Between 2010 and 2011 she attended the post-graduate course “Health anthropology: cultural competence in clinical setting”. After a year working for the local administration, in 2018 he received a doctorate in Anthropology from ISCTE-IUL with the thesis “On the margins and in transit: mental health and good intentions in an IPSS on the outskirts of Lisbon”, based on intensive ethnographic fieldwork in a social housing neighborhood.
Between 2018 and 2019, she joined ICS-ULisboa as a postdoctoral researcher working for project “exPERts - Organizing planning knowledge: housing policy and the role of experts in PER”. She developed a multisited ethnographic investigation both in Cascais and Alta de Lisboa with former residents of the former neighborhoods and with the experts involved in their relocation.
Between July 2020 and February 2021, Joana Catela worked for “SPLACH - Spatial Planning for Change”, based at ISCTE -IUL, a research project focused on investigating the Lisbon Metropolitan Area food system, for which she developed a remote ethnography about food basket producers.
She has recently joined ICS-ULisboa to work as a post-doc researcher for project “CLAN - Children-Animals Friendships: challenging boundaries between humans and non-humans in contemporary societies”.
Her main research interests focus on issues related to medical and urban anthropology, immigration, mental health, housing, vulnerability and human-animal studies, topics on which she has published and participated in scientific conferences, both nationally and internationally.
Ricardo R. Santos
ISAMB, FM-ULisboa, Portugal
Board-certified biologist. Degree in Biology by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL). Complementary course in Philosophy by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisboa (FCSH-NOVA). Attended several courses on Animal Behavior, Dog Cognition, Animal Welfare and Management of Animal Shelters (RSPCA, EFAW, CUAWIC/Cambridge University, Duke University, and University of Edinburgh). He worked voluntarily for more than a decade at a national animal rights NGO. Advanced education in Bioethics, Grief & bereavement, Qualitative methods, and Science communication. At this moment, he is concluding the Master in Science Communication, with a dissertation on strategic communication of science in health (FCSH-NOVA). Former investigator of the Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon (FCUL), where he was member of the executive committee, the coordinating committee and assistant-head of the Philosophy of Life Science research group. He is now investigator of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL), namely at the Environmental Health Institute, where he’s the head of the communication and image office and team member of the Environmental Health Behavior Lab, and at the Center for Bioethics. He has been invited lecturer in Ethics of Clinical Research at the Doctoral Programme of the Lisbon Academic Medical Centre. He is also co-coordinator of the Museu da Memória de Medicina (FMUL) and member of the working group on predatory publications appointed by the FMUL’s Dean. Consultant to the Academic Center of Study and Intervention on Grief and Bereavement (FMUL). Editorial Board Review member of the Human-Animal Interaction Bulletin, edited by the American Psychological Association.
Rita Gouveia
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Rita Gouveia is post-doc researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa). She has a BA in Social Psychology, a Master in Psychology of Education and Development, and a PhD in Sociology of Family, Gender, and Youth. Since 2014, she is member of the Executive Board of the RN13 Sociology of Families and Intimate Lives of the European Sociological Association and she was board member of the European Society of Family Relations (ESFR) between 2012 and 2018. Over the last decade, she has been strongly engaged in the development of theoretical and empirical research on families, personal networks, conjugalities, and life course at both national and international level. Another transversal dimension of her research interests is the permanent investment in innovative methodologies and complex datasets, such as social network analysis or longitudinal designs. She is currently investigating the changing meanings and practices of family in personal networks of gay men and lesbians in Portugal.
João Graça
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
PhD in Psychology (ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, 2016), and is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa), and Invited Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Catholic University of Portugal (FCH-UCP). His main interest is researching transitions towards healthier and more sustainable consumption habits, with a main focus on plant-based diets. He is also interested in understanding the psychology of human exploitation/protection of non-humans and the natural environment.
Fernando Araújo
FDUL, Portugal
Professor Catedrático da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa.
Lisa Mestrinho
FMV-ULisboa, Portugal
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Technical University of Lisbon. University Specialist in Odontology and Maxillofacial Surgery by the Complutense University of Madrid. Master of Science (MSc) in Oncology by the Biomedical Sciences Institute Abel Salazar, University of Oporto. European Master of Small Animal Veterinary Medicine in Dentistry by the University of Luxembourg. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Veterinary Clinic by the University of Lisbon. Fellow of the Academy of Veterinary Dentistry (FAVD). Since 2003, she has been dedicated to cat and dog clinics, in particular general surgery, oncological surgery, reconstructive surgery, oral surgery and odontology. She is assistant professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Lisbon, where she teaches in the area of medicine, surgery and anesthesiology. She is also the coordinator of the optional course Advanced studies on odontology and oral surgery in dogs and cats. She is also a researcher at the Clinical Research Laboratory of the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Animal Health at the same faculty. She is responsible for the odontology and oral surgery of the Veterinary School Hospital. She was president of the European Veterinary Dental Society and is currently president of the Portuguese Small Animal Veterinary Association and elected member of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Veterinary Medical Association.
Ana Horta
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Ana Horta is research assistant at the University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences (Portugal). She holds a PhD in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL (University Institute of Lisbon). Her main research interests are focused on social practices and representations related to energy transition, energy poverty, and media discourses on energy issues and climate change. She has also been interested in food, food insecurity, and human-animal relations. In the project “Between the school and the family: children´s food knowledge and eating practices” (2011-14) she analyzed the relations between children and animals. Recently, in her free time she has also been conducting research on dog walking.
Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues
Universidade de Hunan, China
Miguel Barbosa
FM-ULisboa, Portugal
Developmental and clinical psychologist, and psychotherapist. Phd in Psychology at Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon. Master in Psychology (ISPA), Sociology of Health and Illness (ISCTE), Social and Cultural Anthropology (ICS-UL), and Bioethics (FML). Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. Postdoc researcher in the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. Researcher in Núcleo Académico de Estudos e Intervenção sobre o Luto/Centro de Bioética da FMUL
Rui Pedro Fonseca
CIES ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
Rui Pedro Fonseca is a research fellow in Sociology of Culture, by CIES-IUL. His current research interests are centered on the representations of "food animals" displayed by the dominant culture, namely the educational system. There is also a particular interest in understanding the practices and attitudes of (human) individuals that deal with these animals, both in the context of animal exploitation and through the practices that involve their consumption.
Andrea Pavoni
DINÂMIA'CET ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
Leonor Galhardo
Professor
Leonor Galhardo é bióloga, Mestre em Comportamento Animal Aplicado (Universidade de Edimburgo) e Doutorada em Ciência Animal (Universidade do Porto), no âmbito do que publicou vários estudos sobre stress psicológico e avaliação do bem-estar em peixes. Trabalhou na Direção-Geral de Veterinária e Alimentação (DGAV), tendo vindo a desenvolver consultadoria em bem-estar animal nos últimos 20 anos. Durante este período, desenvolveu diversas atividades em cooperação com autoridades competentes, associações profissionais e organizações não governamentais relacionadas com proteção e bem-estar animal. A aplicação e cumprimento de legislação relativa à proteção de animais selvagens em cativeiro foi um aspeto central das suas atividades técnicas, no âmbito das quais o ‘Manual de Boas Práticas da Diretiva Zoos da UE’ foi publicado. A educação em bem-estar animal é uma parte importante da sua carreira, tendo coordenado e ensinado em vários cursos de bem-estar animal para estudantes universitários e profissionais. É docente no ISPA-Instituto Universitário (Lisboa), onde leciona tópicos relacionados com bem-estar animal e coordena a Pós-Graduação em Bem-Estar Animal.
Filipa Soares
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
PhD in Human Geography from the University of Oxford and BA and MA in Anthropology from the New University of Lisbon. She is currently a researcher at ICS-ULisboa, within the “Project People and Fire”. Her research has been focused on human-wildlife relations and the social and biopolitical dimensions of nature conservation, in Portugal and the UK. She has also participated in a study about the representations of the Iberian wolf and birds in Portuguese literature (19th-21st centuries) and co-edited a publication about owls in Portuguese popular culture.
Sofia Biscaia
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia holds a doctoral degree in Literature by the University of Aveiro (2005). She has conducted interdisciplinary research in the fields of visual, gender and postcolonial studies, including on South Asian, African, British and Luso-American authors. She has published extensively in domestic and international journals and is the author of the book Postcolonial and Feminist Grotesque: Texts of Contemporary Excess. She also co-edited the collection of essays Intercultural Crossings: Conflict, Memory, Identity. She is part of the international project Bodies in Transit 2 which addresses how bodies have been historically transformed through social relations, discourses, and technologies, by drawing from feminist, queer, postcolonial and posthumanist theories of the embodied self. She has been increasingly interested in Critical Animal Studies and has presented numerous papers in international conferences on related issues ranging from queer animality, food studies, advertising and national identity, feminist and postcolonial intersections. She has published among others “Loving Monsters: The Curious Case of Patricia Piccinini’s Posthuman Offspring” (2019) and “What Comes After the Woman: Becoming Plant in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian” (2019). The article “Of Mice and Women: Gendered and Speciesist Violence in Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘Martyrdom’” is forthcoming in 2021 in the volume Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance published by Palgrave.
Currently she teaches at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.
Patrícia Vieira
CES, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Patrícia Vieira é Investigadora Sénior no Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) da Universidade de Coimbra e Professora Catedrática no Departamento de Espanhol e Português da Universidade de Georgetown (EUA). As suas áreas de investigação são Literatura e Cinema Ibéricos e Latino-Americanos, Estudos de Utopia e Humanidades Ambientais. Os seus livros mais recentes são States of Grace: Utopia in Brazilian Culture (SUNY, 2018) e o livro co-editado The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence (Synergetic Press, 2021). É neste momento Investigadora Principal no projecto ECO – Animais e Plantas em Produções Culturais sobre a Bacia Amazónica, financiado por uma bolsa “Consolidator” do Conselho de Investigação Europeu (ERC).
Para mais informações, visite: www.patriciavieira.net
PhD Students
Henrique Tereno
ICS-ULisboa
Licenciado em Estudos Europeus pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa e Mestre em Antropologia pelo ISCTE/UTAD. Trabalhou como bolseiro de investigação no projeto CLAN no Instituto de Ciências Sociais. É também membro do Human-Animal Studies Hub, participando nas suas atividades e colaborando na sua gestão. Os temas de pesquisa prediletos enquadram o relacionamento entre humanos e animais não-humanos. Em 2019, ingressou no programa doutoral OpenSoc em Sociologia. É bolseiro da FCT, 2020.05345.BD, e está a desenvolver uma tese sobre a categorização que as crianças fazem dos animais com quem se relacionam através das suas práticas.
Clara Venâncio
ICS-ULisboa
Clara Venâncio graduated in Communication Design from the University School of Arts of Coimbra and concluded the first curricular year of the MA in Sound and Image with a specialization in Computer Animation from the Catholic University of Portugal. She holds a Master's Degree in Product Design from the Superior School of Arts and Design of Caldas da Rainha where she completed the thesis “Animal Dignity - Development of Habitats for Domestic Animals” and the prototypes “Domus Petra” and “Locus Turi". She attended the Post-Graduate course Animals & Society at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and currently works as a Research Assistant in the CLAN project. She is interested in the interactions between humans, animals, and objects. Mainly in which way objects condition and affect the actions of humans and animals.
Visiting Scholars
Maria Saari
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Oulu
Investigadora visitante
(11/2022 a 11/2023)
Maria Helena Saari is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Education at the University of Oulu and Visiting Scholar at the Human-Animal Studies Hub. She is currently Co-Leader of the Envisioning Sustainability Research Hub of the Biodiverse Anthropocenes Research Program and Chair of the Finnish Critical Animal Studies Network (CASFinland). She was awarded the the Senior Animal Law Researcher Award by the International Centre for Animal Law & Policy (ICALP) for her doctoral thesis ‘Animals as stakeholders in education: Towards an educational reform for interspecies sustainability’. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on animals in education (policy and pedagogy), interspecies sustainability and justice, environmental education, and animal law. She coordinates and teaches undergraduate courses on environmental education and multispecies childhood studies. Prior to her research career, Maria worked in the field of education in teaching and leadership roles.
Leticia Fantinel
Professor, Federal University of Espírito Santo
Investigadora visitante
(04/2022 a 04/2023)
Leticia Fantinel é professora no Departamento de Administração e no Programa de Pós-graduação em Administração da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brasil. É doutora em Administração (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brasil, com estágio-sanduíche na Universidade Paris IX, França), mestre e bacharel em Administração (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil). Coordena o Grupo de Estudos em Simbolismos e Práticas Cotidianas em Organizações – GESIP/UFES e o Grupo de Trabalho “Dinâmicas organizativas e socioambientais no Antropoceno” na Associação de Pesquisa em Administração no Brasil (Anpad). Seus interesses de pesquisa incluem: relações entre animais e organizações, práticas organizativas que envolvam seres não-humanos, estudos multiespécies. Entre abril de 2022 e abril de 2023, a Letícia é Investigadora Visitante no HAS-Hub e no ICS-ULisboa, onde desenvolve um projeto de investigação pós-doutoral como colaboradora no projeto "Liminal Becomings: reframing human-animal relations in natural disasters". [CEECIND/02719/2017]", [CEECIND/02719/2017].
Janice Trajano
Estudante de Doutoramento, Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Investigadora visitante
(06/2022 a 06/2023)
Janice Trajano é estudante de doutorado em Antropologia pela Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brasil. Atualmente em período sanduíche no Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, com financiamento da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). É mestra em Antropologia pela Universidade Federal do Ceará e bacharela em Nutrição pela Faculdade de Juazeiro do Norte. Tem experiência de pesquisa em estudos da alimentação e do rural, com abordagem multiespécie. Junto ao HAS-Hub desenvolve uma investigação sobre as relações humano-animal na convivência com as secas.
Verónica Policarpo
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Link: https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/en/pessoa/veronica-policarpo
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9245-1057
CIÊNCIA VITAE: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//C211-DB67-6F6F
Twitter: @VMPolicarpo
Ana Nunes de Almeida
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Sociologist and a researcher at the ICS-ULisboa. Her favourite sicentific themes are: children and childhood, family and schooling, children and animals, new ethical dilemmas in the research with children. She is currently the chair of the Scientific Council at ICS-ULisboa and a member of the Directive Commitee of the RN04 Children and Childhood, European Sociological Asssociation).
Mónica Truniger
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Socióloga no ICS-ULisboa. Tem-se dedicado à investigação, ensino e comunicação das práticas sociais alimentares através de pesquisas sobre pobreza alimentar, consumo alimentar sustentável e hábitos alimentares de famílias com crianças. Tem vários títulos publicados alusivos a estas temáticas em editoras portuguesas e internacionais.
Vasco Ramos
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Vasco Ramos (Lisbon, 1976), is a postdoctoral researcher, with a PhD in Sociology from the University of Lisbon. Among other interests, his research has focused on issues such as social inequality, class and mobility, and family sociology. More recently, he has focused on food, food practices and human-animal studies. Currently, he is a researcher at CLAN, conducting ethnographic work with children and pets, with interest in understanding how specific categorisations of non-human animals relate to food practices and preferences.
Since 2009 he has worked on several projects at ICS-UL, namely on a research project on family trajectories and social networks, coordinated by Karin Wall. Currently, he is part of the Life research group LIFE – Life Course, Inequality and Solidarities: Practices and Policies. He also collaborates with OFAP - Observatory of Families and Family Policies. As a postdoc researcher, he was part of the Portuguese team working on the ERC funded research project Families and Food in Hard Times. Since August 2017, he is developing a research project (based on an individual post-doctoral fellowship from the FCT) entitled Living with Uncertainty: Enduring Precariousness over the life course.
Teresa Líbano Monteiro
Investigadora Associada ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Teresa Líbano Monteiro é doutorada em sociologia (ISCTE-IUL) (2007). Lecionou Teorias Sociológicas e Métodos de Investigação na Faculdade de Ciências Humanas da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (1993-2017). Em 2013, esteve no Centre Max Weber (Lyon- France) para desenvolver investigação na àrea dos Human-Animal Studies.
Joana Catela
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Joana Catela studied Social Anthropology at FCSH-Nova and Latin American Studies at Cambridge University. Between 2010 and 2011 she attended the post-graduate course “Health anthropology: cultural competence in clinical setting”. After a year working for the local administration, in 2018 he received a doctorate in Anthropology from ISCTE-IUL with the thesis “On the margins and in transit: mental health and good intentions in an IPSS on the outskirts of Lisbon”, based on intensive ethnographic fieldwork in a social housing neighborhood.
Between 2018 and 2019, she joined ICS-ULisboa as a postdoctoral researcher working for project “exPERts - Organizing planning knowledge: housing policy and the role of experts in PER”. She developed a multisited ethnographic investigation both in Cascais and Alta de Lisboa with former residents of the former neighborhoods and with the experts involved in their relocation.
Between July 2020 and February 2021, Joana Catela worked for “SPLACH - Spatial Planning for Change”, based at ISCTE -IUL, a research project focused on investigating the Lisbon Metropolitan Area food system, for which she developed a remote ethnography about food basket producers.
She has recently joined ICS-ULisboa to work as a post-doc researcher for project “CLAN - Children-Animals Friendships: challenging boundaries between humans and non-humans in contemporary societies”.
Her main research interests focus on issues related to medical and urban anthropology, immigration, mental health, housing, vulnerability and human-animal studies, topics on which she has published and participated in scientific conferences, both nationally and internationally.
Henrique Tereno
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Holds a bachelor’s degree in European Studies by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon and a master’s degree in Anthropology by ISCTE/UTAD. Worked as a research assistant on the project CLAN - Children-Animal's Friendships: challenging boundaries between humans and non-humans in contemporary societies” in the Institute of Social Sciences. Is a member of the Human-Animal Studies Hub, partaking in its activities and collaborating in the organization of events. Favorite research topics focus on the relations between humans and non-human animals. Is currently a PhD FCT fellowship holder (2020.05345.BD) in the OpenSoc Doctoral program in Sociology, with a project on the categorization that children make of non-human animals through their practices. e está a desenvolver uma tese sobre a categorização que as crianças fazem dos animais com quem se relacionam através das suas práticas.
Ricardo R. Santos
ISAMB, FM-ULisboa, Portugal
Board-certified biologist. Degree in Biology by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL). Complementary course in Philosophy by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisboa (FCSH-NOVA). Attended several courses on Animal Behavior, Dog Cognition, Animal Welfare and Management of Animal Shelters (RSPCA, EFAW, CUAWIC/Cambridge University, Duke University, and University of Edinburgh). He worked voluntarily for more than a decade at a national animal rights NGO. Advanced education in Bioethics, Grief & bereavement, Qualitative methods, and Science communication. At this moment, he is concluding the Master in Science Communication, with a dissertation on strategic communication of science in health (FCSH-NOVA). Former investigator of the Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon (FCUL), where he was member of the executive committee, the coordinating committee and assistant-head of the Philosophy of Life Science research group. He is now investigator of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL), namely at the Environmental Health Institute, where he’s the head of the communication and image office and team member of the Environmental Health Behavior Lab, and at the Center for Bioethics. He has been invited lecturer in Ethics of Clinical Research at the Doctoral Programme of the Lisbon Academic Medical Centre. He is also co-coordinator of the Museu da Memória de Medicina (FMUL) and member of the working group on predatory publications appointed by the FMUL’s Dean. Consultant to the Academic Center of Study and Intervention on Grief and Bereavement (FMUL). Editorial Board Review member of the Human-Animal Interaction Bulletin, edited by the American Psychological Association.
Rita Gouveia
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Rita Gouveia is post-doc researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa). She has a BA in Social Psychology, a Master in Psychology of Education and Development, and a PhD in Sociology of Family, Gender, and Youth. Since 2014, she is member of the Executive Board of the RN13 Sociology of Families and Intimate Lives of the European Sociological Association and she was board member of the European Society of Family Relations (ESFR) between 2012 and 2018. Over the last decade, she has been strongly engaged in the development of theoretical and empirical research on families, personal networks, conjugalities, and life course at both national and international level. Another transversal dimension of her research interests is the permanent investment in innovative methodologies and complex datasets, such as social network analysis or longitudinal designs. She is currently investigating the changing meanings and practices of family in personal networks of gay men and lesbians in Portugal.
João Graça
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
PhD in Psychology (ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, 2016), and is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa), and Invited Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Catholic University of Portugal (FCH-UCP). His main interest is researching transitions towards healthier and more sustainable consumption habits, with a main focus on plant-based diets. He is also interested in understanding the psychology of human exploitation/protection of non-humans and the natural environment.
Fernando Araújo
FDUL, Portugal
Professor Catedrático da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa
Lisa Mestrinho
FMV-ULisboa, Portugal
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Technical University of Lisbon. University Specialist in Odontology and Maxillofacial Surgery by the Complutense University of Madrid. Master of Science (MSc) in Oncology by the Biomedical Sciences Institute Abel Salazar, University of Oporto. European Master of Small Animal Veterinary Medicine in Dentistry by the University of Luxembourg. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Veterinary Clinic by the University of Lisbon. Fellow of the Academy of Veterinary Dentistry (FAVD). Since 2003, she has been dedicated to cat and dog clinics, in particular general surgery, oncological surgery, reconstructive surgery, oral surgery and odontology. She is assistant professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Lisbon, where she teaches in the area of medicine, surgery and anesthesiology. She is also the coordinator of the optional course Advanced studies on odontology and oral surgery in dogs and cats. She is also a researcher at the Clinical Research Laboratory of the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Animal Health at the same faculty. She is responsible for the odontology and oral surgery of the Veterinary School Hospital. She was president of the European Veterinary Dental Society and is currently president of the Portuguese Small Animal Veterinary Association and elected member of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Veterinary Medical Association.
Ana Horta
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Ana Horta is research assistant at the University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences (Portugal). She holds a PhD in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL (University Institute of Lisbon). Her main research interests are focused on social practices and representations related to energy transition, energy poverty, and media discourses on energy issues and climate change. She has also been interested in food, food insecurity, and human-animal relations. In the project “Between the school and the family: children´s food knowledge and eating practices” (2011-14) she analyzed the relations between children and animals. Recently, in her free time she has also been conducting research on dog walking.
Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues
Universidade de Hunan, China
Miguel Barbosa
FM-ULisboa, Portugal
Developmental and clinical psychologist, and psychotherapist. Phd in Psychology at Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon. Master in Psychology (ISPA), Sociology of Health and Illness (ISCTE), Social and Cultural Anthropology (ICS-UL), and Bioethics (FML). Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. Postdoc researcher in the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. Researcher in Núcleo Académico de Estudos e Intervenção sobre o Luto/Centro de Bioética da FMUL
Rui Pedro Fonseca
CIES ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
Andrea Pavoni
DINÂMIA’CET ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
Andrea Pavoni is post-doctoral researcher at DINÂMIA'CET ISCTE-IUL, University Institute of Lisbon. Drawing from various areas such as critical geography, urban studies, legal theory, sociology and philosophy, his research explores the relation between materiality, normativity and the urban from various interdisciplinary angles. Among his current interests, he is investigating the normative relation between animals and the city as it dramatically changes in the age of planetary urbanisation. Andrea is a fellow at the Westminster Law and Theory Lab, co-editor of the Law and the Senses Series(University of Westminster Press), and associate editor at the journal Lo Squaderno, Explorations in Space and Society. His book, Controlling Urban Events. Law, Ethics and the Material, is out with Routledge.
Leonor Galhardo
Professor
Leonor Galhardo é bióloga, Mestre em Comportamento Animal Aplicado (Universidade de Edimburgo) e Doutorada em Ciência Animal (Universidade do Porto), no âmbito do que publicou vários estudos sobre stress psicológico e avaliação do bem-estar em peixes. Trabalhou na Direção-Geral de Veterinária e Alimentação (DGAV), tendo vindo a desenvolver consultadoria em bem-estar animal nos últimos 20 anos. Durante este período, desenvolveu diversas atividades em cooperação com autoridades competentes, associações profissionais e organizações não governamentais relacionadas com proteção e bem-estar animal. A aplicação e cumprimento de legislação relativa à proteção de animais selvagens em cativeiro foi um aspeto central das suas atividades técnicas, no âmbito das quais o ‘Manual de Boas Práticas da Diretiva Zoos da UE’ foi publicado. A educação em bem-estar animal é uma parte importante da sua carreira, tendo coordenado e ensinado em vários cursos de bem-estar animal para estudantes universitários e profissionais. É docente no ISPA-Instituto Universitário (Lisboa), onde leciona tópicos relacionados com bem-estar animal e coordena a Pós-Graduação em Bem-Estar Animal.
Filipa Soares
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
PhD in Human Geography from the University of Oxford and BA and MA in Anthropology from the New University of Lisbon. She is currently a researcher at ICS-ULisboa, within the “Project People and Fire”. Her research has been focused on human-wildlife relations and the social and biopolitical dimensions of nature conservation, in Portugal and the UK. She has also participated in a study about the representations of the Iberian wolf and birds in Portuguese literature (19th-21st centuries) and co-edited a publication about owls in Portuguese popular culture.
Clara Venâncio
ICS-ULisboa, Portugal
Clara Venâncio graduated in Communication Design from the University School of Arts of Coimbra and concluded the first curricular year of the MA in Sound and Image with a specialization in Computer Animation from the Catholic University of Portugal. She holds a Master's Degree in Product Design from the Superior School of Arts and Design of Caldas da Rainha where she completed the thesis “Animal Dignity - Development of Habitats for Domestic Animals” and the prototypes “Domus Petra” and “Locus Turi". She attended the Post-Graduate course Animals & Society at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and currently works as a Research Assistant in the CLAN project. She is interested in the interactions between humans, animals, and objects. Mainly in which way objects condition and affect the actions of humans and animals.
Sofia Biscaia
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia holds a doctoral degree in Literature by the University of Aveiro (2005). She has conducted interdisciplinary research in the fields of visual, gender and postcolonial studies, including on South Asian, African, British and Luso-American authors. She has published extensively in domestic and international journals and is the author of the book Postcolonial and Feminist Grotesque: Texts of Contemporary Excess. She also co-edited the collection of essays Intercultural Crossings: Conflict, Memory, Identity. She is part of the international project Bodies in Transit 2 which addresses how bodies have been historically transformed through social relations, discourses, and technologies, by drawing from feminist, queer, postcolonial and posthumanist theories of the embodied self. She has been increasingly interested in Critical Animal Studies and has presented numerous papers in international conferences on related issues ranging from queer animality, food studies, advertising and national identity, feminist and postcolonial intersections. She has published among others “Loving Monsters: The Curious Case of Patricia Piccinini’s Posthuman Offspring” (2019) and “What Comes After the Woman: Becoming Plant in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian” (2019). The article “Of Mice and Women: Gendered and Speciesist Violence in Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘Martyrdom’” is forthcoming in 2021 in the volume Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance published by Palgrave.
Currently she teaches at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.