This project was focused on promoting adolescents’ capabilities to improve their intimate relationships with their peers through different activities that aimed to:
- Enable adolescents to acknowledge IPV-related protective factors that are present in themselves, their families, the school and other closed settings, and to know how to properly use them,
- Contribute to education and awareness-raising about the importance of positive interpersonal relationships based on self- esteem and trust,
- Endorse adolescents in challenging sexist and tolerant attitudes towards gender-based violence and dating violence,
- Promote skills to manage problems and conflicts through interpersonal communication, mediation and negotiation among youth, and
- Empower young people to claim their rights and those of their peers to be held in esteem and to protect themselves from at-risk or abusive relationships.
Lights4violence main activities were:
- Seminar with teachers: “Promoting Protective Assets Related to Violence Together”.
- Workshop with adolescents: “Filming Together to See Ourselves in a New Present”.
- Short film exhibitions with participants, their families, authorities and other stakeholders.
- Teaching guides for the use of short films.
- Computer-based evaluation system.
- International Final Conference: “Dating Violence and the Role of Education”.
Type and number of persons benefiting from the project: 600 to 700 adolescents (boys and girls), aged 13 to 15 years, enrolled in secondary education schools from Alicante (Spain), Rome (Italy), Cardiff (UK), Iasi (Romania), Porto (Portugal) and Poznań (Poland).
Expected results
Increased adolescent awareness about the importance of positive interpersonal relationships based on esteem and trust;
Improved adolescent attitudes against sexism, intolerance towards intimate partner violence and other forms of violence against peers; and,
Improved adolescent skills for managing conflicts through interpersonal communication, mediation
The research study Beliefs and attitudes of professionals on sexual violence in intimate relations, coordinated by Sofia Neves, Professor at ISMAI and a member of CIEG, was promoted by Comissão para a Cidadania e Igualdade de Género (CIG) and funded by the European Commission. The study was developed in partnership with the Family Planning Association, the Health Ministry, the Secretariat of State of the Ministry of Internal Administration, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, and aimed to determine the beliefs and attitudes of Public Administration professionals about sexual violence in intimate relations.
The ARt’Themis project was developed by UMAR – União de Mulheres Alternativa e Resposta and funded by the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality (CIG) and the Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality.
Directed to children and young people, the project’s main goals were to promote a culture of equality, peace, non-violent conflict resolution and women's rights, as well as to prevent gender based violence through the reflection about stereotypes and myths.
Within the primary prevention scope, the project focused on the topics of Domestic and Gender Violence, but also helped children and young people to tackle these subjects by identifying the problem, discussing and reflecting about it. The aim was to educate and inform on how to recognize potential signs of violence and to know what to do in such circumstances.
More information available here.
DECIDE researched the living conditions and the social inclusion of disabled people in Portugal in light of the already consolidated international proposals under the concept of “independent living”.
This was a 36 months research project (June 2016 – May 2019), and involved an experienced multidisciplinary research team coordinated by Fernando Fontes.
What is “independent living”?
Independent Living means “All disabled people having the same choice, control and freedom as any other citizen – at home, at work, and as members of the community.”
(Barnes and Mercer, 2006: 33)
Expected results:
DECIDE assessed the possibilities and advantages of a transformation of the living and support conditions of disabled people in Portugal. We analyzed the feasibility and sustainability of "independent living" in our society. We seeked to contribute to an appropriate and informed redefinition of disability policies in Portugal.
Researchers:
Bruno Sena Martins
Ema Loja
Fernando Fontes (coord)
Joana Alves
Mónica Lopes
Paula Campos Pinto
Sílvia Portugal
WEBSITE
https://www.ces.uc.pt/projectos/decide/index.php?id_lingua=2
The project’s “Media Representations of Sensitive Publics” main goal is to understand how and to what level are the so-called sensitive publics represented in the news, under a gender lens.
Sensitive publics, according to ERC – Portuguese Regulatory Social Communication Entity are those who find, by reasons of political, economic or social order, by cognitive inabilities or by physical vulnerabilities, difficulty in accessing public space and fully exert their citizenship. In this project, we include the groups mentioned by ERC: a) children and youngsters, b) elderly people, c) ethnical minorities. We also include three other publics, namely: d) LGBT communities; e) persons with disabilities and f) women. Although not a minority, we included this last one because it is important to understand whether their growing participation in public life is reflected in the importance given to them in the news and how the generic idea of gender equality is promoted.
Since the 1990’s, studies have been revealing gendered stereotyped representations of minorities, especially when media privileges a negative factuality regarding those groups or denies them visibility. This leads to generalization of minorities representations in Public Opinion, which is also due to a predominance of news that appeal to influential and political sources, reproducing only one voice in the media. We particularly apply intersectionality theory to analyse gender representations of these groups. Departing from the premise that media representations may contribute to social constructions of mentioned publics, we conduct a quantitative content analysis of main media voices and groups visibility.
In order to accomplish this, we characterize news relevance of the different publics; understand how people and its characteristics are depicted in the news, as agents, sources and by sex; verify which voices are representing public interests; assess the positive or negative value in the news regarding different publics in gender terms; identify the visibility of each public. Print media was chosen because it keeps its greater agenda setting effect within its audiences and because it provides greater contextualization and depth, despite the exponential growing consumption of digital media. Our sample is now of over 30.000 news items from major print media in Portugal, including daily (Diário de Notícias, Jornal de Notícias, Correio da Manhã and Público) and weekly (Expresso and Sol) newspapers and information magazines (Sábado and Visão) from January to June of each year since 2014. In the field of gender studies, a greater and better knowledge of gendered media representations of sensitive publics as social constructs enables rethinking public policies and academic positions.
The project has as external advisor Dr. Martina Topić, Senior Lecturer in Public Relations in Leeds Business School (Leeds Beckett University). You can find Dr. Martina Topić's CV here.
Maria João Cunha is one of the team's members.
Project This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / Women architects in Portugal: building visibility, 1942-1986
The contribution of Portuguese female architects to the development of the architectural practice, research and teaching is far from being identified. The main questions are: who?, when?, and how? did women architects contribute to our general Portuguese architectural history, although in an almost silent way. The time period starts in 1942, when the first female architect, Maria José Estanco, graduates in Portugal, and it ends in 1986, a crucial year in Portuguese history. On the one hand, the country became a European Economic Community (EEC) member. On the other hand, it represents the spread and massification of architecture schools. Between these chronological boundaries, major events of the Portuguese modern architecture history happened: the 1948’s Congress, the SAAL process, among others. The archiving work and oral collection of testimonies allow the understanding of Portuguese female architects’ roles in this time period.
The project PTDC/ART-DAQ/32388/2017, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Women architects in Portugal: building visibility, 1942-1986, is being developed at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (CIEG), within the Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP-ULisboa), with the financial support of FCT/MCTES through national funds and, when applicable, co-financed by the FEDER, under the new partnership agreement PT2020.
Coordination
Patrícia Santos Pedrosa / Visiting Assistant Teacher / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The project aimed to promote gender equality in preschool education. This was achieved through the experiment of activities which dealt with gender equality themes in kindergartens. The main goal of the project was to list a set of good practices, whose adoption was then recommended to the educational agencies of the participating countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy and Sweden). Besides the creation of didactic materials, Colourful Children also provided training for kindergarten teachers.
CIEG participated in the project as an assessing entity. It was coordinated by Paula Campos Pinto and had Clara Oliveira as a team member.
The BO(U)NDS project intends to conduct a longitudinal study based on a mixed methodology and the hermeneutical comparison between Portugal, Germany, UK, Greece and Brazil. The assumptions are that an intervention program at school level with children, adolescents and young people is more effective and has long-term effects if the content focuses on the structural and cultural bases of gender and domestic violence, and if they are appropriate for the development of the child and use holistic and creative pedagogical approaches. Interventions in schools can be based on normative actions, affirmative actions or transformative actions (Arnot, 2009).
The BO(U)NDS project seeks to understand in depth what works in primary prevention to have long-term effects on the lives of young people. Working with focus groups and biographical narratives with young people who have been attending, for more than five years, programs for the prevention of gender violence in a school context, the aim is to understand the obstacles and successes of integrating values of non-violence and values of gender equality in their lives.
At the same time, teachers, facilitators and policy makers will be asked about the difficulties and possibilities of implementing holistic, systematic and effective programs to prevent gender-based violence in schools.
The project is promoted by the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto and funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). It is coordinated by Maria José Magalhães.
On February 27, at 6pm, the book Gender, Human Rights and Inequalities (second volume of the Gender Studies Collection, ISCSP Editions), and the eBook Gender Studies. Diversity of gazes in the global world (third volume of the Gender Studies Collection, ISCSP Editions).
Both volumes result from the I International Congress, promoted by CIEG. The book Gender, Human Rights and Inequalities brings together texts authored by guests speaker. The eBook Gender Studies. Diversity of gazes in a global world, gather 28 accepted chapters after a process of peer review, from participants who presented communications to the Congress.
The launch will be on February 27, at 6pm, in the Monsanto room of ISCSP-ULisboa (floor 0).
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