PhD candidate in Gender Studies at Nova School of Law of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH-UNL) e Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas da Universidade de Lisboa (ISCSP-UL) with a research scholarship granted by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through the Research Center for Gender Studies - Centro de Investigação em Estudos de Género (CIEG) - of Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas da Universidade de Lisboa (ISCSP/UL) (2020-present). Post-Graduate degree in "Equality Law" from Law School of Lisbon University - Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (2021). Master in Public Law (2016-2019) with the dissertation "Possibility of legal recognition of the third gender in Portugal" by Nova School of Law da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Graduated in Law from Nova School of Law at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2012-2016). Member of the Team and editor of the journal Faces de Eva. Estudos sobre a mulher from issue 44(2020) to issue 50 (2023).
Title: Socio-legal changes in Portugal: a case study on LGBTI+ rights
Objectives:
1) identify and understand the socio-legal factors that contributed to the legislative changes; and
2) understand the impact of these legal changes on the Portuguese legal system, particularly with regard to adoption and PMA.
Methodology: The research is oriented from four research hypotheses:
1. The action of the LGBT+ movement influenced the approval of the diplomas.
2. The different political conjunctures influenced the approval of the diplomas.
3. The international, European and transnational legal framework had an effect on the achievement of LGBTI+ rights at a national level.
4. The legislative changes contributed to the creation of new legal-social conceptions within the family.
The research aims to understand and explain how the process of the acquisition of rights by LGBTI+ people that eliminated legal discrimination in the family sphere has developed. We will focus on the achievement of the so-called "parenthood rights" (adoption and MAR), recognised with the approval of Law no. 2/2016 of 29 February, which eliminated discrimination in access to adoption, civil sponsorship and other family legal relationships, and Law no. 17/2016 of 20 June, which widened the scope of beneficiaries of medically assisted procreation techniques. We will analyse all the legislative processes between 1999 and 2016, which have discussed or attributed any right within the family scope to LGBTI+ people, and the data will be collected from i) written documents; and ii) interviews.
Topics of interest: Gender, Law, LGBTI+ rights, LGBT parenting
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Poliksena Hardalova was a professor for 15 years at the National Academy of Theatre and Film at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, where she earned her doctorate in theatre science. Co-founder of the social theatre company TSVETE THEATRE in 1994 in Bulgaria, she has participated in numerous projects in the Balkans, Europe and the USA. She researches and works in the fields of social and educational theatre and is a trainer in applied arts, theatre and puppetry, Forum Theatre and Theatre of the Senses. She is an invited adjunct professor at ESE do Porto and collaborates with ESMAE, both part of IPP, teaching undergraduate and master's programmes. She is artistic director and supervisor of the technical team at the Escola de Segunda Oportunidade de Matosinhos.
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Ariana Pinto Correia holds a PhD in Psychology by Porto University, with the thesis Intimate Partner Femicide: Practices, Social Discourses and Media Narratives, under the supervision of Sofia Neves, PhD and Conceição Nogueira, PhD (SFRH/BD/131440/2017). Since 2011, has been collaborating with several academical and field projects, under the spectrum of gender violence, focusing in intimate gender violence, domestic violence, intimate partner femicide and social construction of crime.
Recognized specialist from Gender Equality and Citizenship Commission in Gender Equality, Domestic Violence and Violence against Women. Actually is an invited assistant professor in Maia University and coordinates UNi+ Programme, that aims to prevent and fight dating violence among university students. She is also part from the founder commission of Plano I Association, an NGO based in Porto, that promotes human right under a intersectional matrix.
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences (CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa) opens a call for granting 2 (two) PhD Research Studentships, in the area of Gender Studies, under the FCT Regulation for Studentships and Fellowships (RBI) and the Research Fellowship Holder Statute (EBI).
The grants will be financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the terms of the Collaboration Protocol for Funding of the Pluriannual Research Grant Plan for PhD Students, signed between the FCT and the R&D Unit CIEG, Nº 4304.
The call is open between March 22, 2022 and the 17.00h April 21, 2022.
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The english version is available here.
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Lia Gil Antunes is a feminist architect and researcher, graduated from Darq-University of Coimbra in 2012. Here and in CIEG, she is developing her PhD on Women of the SAAL process (1974-1976) in Portugal: Women techniques and residents for the right to housing (FCT). Co-founder of the association Mulheres na Arquitectura (Women in Architecture, 2017-) and collaborating researcher at Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (CIEG-ISCSP/ULisboa). Between 2019-2021, she was a research fellow in the project «This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. – Women architects in Portugal: Construction of visibility, 1942-1986» (CIEG-ISCSP/ULisboa, FCT). She has been dialoguing with intersectional feminisms in the construction of the History of Women in Architecture, housing, and the city in Portugal.

PhD on Gender Studies | 5th edition (2022/2023)
The inter-universitary programme of the PhD on Gender Studies results from a consortium between Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP-ULisboa), NOVA Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities and NOVA School of Law.
This doctoral programme's mission is to contribute to the affirmation of Gender Studies as an autonomous scientific field of research and advanced education. Moreover, it prepares and trains researchers, other professionals, senior officials and other managers to analyse critically and reflectively themes related to gender, and then intervene in various sectors and social and political activities.
The courses and classes will take place rotationally between ISCSP-ULisboa, NOVA FCSH and NOVA School of Law.
During the 2022/2023 school year, the host institution is NOVA School of Law, at Colégio Almada Negreiros (Campolide Campus).
For more information on the application, please visit this site.
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PhD on Gender Studies | 4th edition (2021/2022)
The inter-universitary programme of the PhD on Gender Studies results from a consortium between Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP-ULisboa), NOVA Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) and NOVA School of Law.
This doctoral programme's mission is to contribute to the affirmation of Gender Studies as an autonomous scientific field of research and advanced education. Moreover, it prepares and trains researchers, other professionals, senior officials and other managers to analyse critically and reflectively themes related to gender, and then intervene in various sectors and social and political activities.
The courses and classes will take place rotationally between ISCSP-ULisboa, NOVA FCSH and NOVA School of Law.
During the 2021/2022 school year, the host institution is NOVA FCSH.
For more information on the application, please visit this site.
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PhD on Gender Studies | 3rd edition (2020/2021)
The inter-universitary programme of the PhD on Gender Studies results from a consortium between Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP-ULisboa), NOVA Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) and NOVA School of Law.
This doctoral programme's mission is to contribute to the affirmation of Gender Studies as an autonomous scientific field of research and advanced education. Moreover, it prepares and trains researchers, other professionals, senior officials and other managers to analyse critically and reflectively themes related to gender, and then intervene in various sectors and social and political activities.
The courses and classes will take place rotationally between ISCSP-ULisboa, NOVA FCSH and NOVA School of Law.
During the 2020/2021 school year, the host institution is NOVA FCSH.
For more information on the application, please visit this site.
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PhD on Gender Studies | 2nd edition (2019/2020)
The inter-universitary programme of the PhD on Gender Studies results from a consortium between Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP-ULisboa), NOVA Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) and NOVA School of Law.
This doctoral programme's mission is to contribute to the affirmation of Gender Studies as an autonomous scientific field of research and advanced education. Moreover, it prepares and trains researchers, other professionals, senior officials and other managers to analyse critically and reflectively themes related to gender, and then intervene in various sectors and social and political activities.
The courses and classes will take place rotationally between ISCSP-ULisboa, NOVA FCSH and NOVA School of Law.
During the 2019/2020 school year, the host institution is ISCSP-ULisboa.
For more information on the application, please visit this site.

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PhD on Gender Studies | 1st edition (2018/2019)
The inter-universitary programme of the PhD on Gender Studies results from a consortium between Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP-ULisboa), NOVA Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) and NOVA School of Law.
This doctoral programme's mission is to contribute to the affirmation of Gender Studies as an autonomous scientific field of research and advanced education. Moreover, it prepares and trains researchers, other professionals, senior officials and other managers to analyse critically and reflectively themes related to gender, and then intervene in various sectors and social and political activities.
The courses and classes will take place rotationally between ISCSP-ULisboa, NOVA FCSH and NOVA School of Law.
During the 2018/2019 school year, the host institution is ISCSP-ULisboa.
For more information on the application, please visit this site.

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Decorreu nos dias 2 e 4 de fevereiro de 2022 o II Webinar do projeto GE-HEI – Igualdade de Género nas Instituições de Ensino Superior, em curso no CIEG.
No evento foram divulgados os objetivos e alguns resultados preliminares do projeto em curso, promovendo a disseminação do conhecimento produzido no âmbito dos Estudos de Género em contexto nacional e internacional relativamente à Igualdade de Género no Ensino Superior, e fortalecendo redes de contacto entre IES, Centros de Investigação e investigadores/as que trabalham esta temática.
O projeto GE-HEI é financiado pelo Mecanismo Financeiro do Espaço Económico Europeu, EEA Grants 2014-2021 e promovido pela Direção-Geral do Ensino Superior (DGES). Tem como entidade operadora a Comissão para a Cidadania e a Igualdade de Género (CIG), e como responsável científico o Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos de Género (CIEG/ISCSP-Ulisboa), em parceira com o Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference at the University of Iceland (RIKK) e com a Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior (A3ES).
Os vídeos das sessões encontram-se disponíveis no canal de Youtube do CIEG, aqui.
Decorreu no dia 18 de janeiro de 2022, pelas 18h00, a Apresentação Pública do Projeto Boomerang - Estudo sobre as perceções do impacto da partilha desigual do trabalho não pago de mulheres e homens imigrantes em Portugal.
O projeto é promovido pelo Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas da Universidade de Lisboa (ISCSP-ULisboa) e financiado pelo Programa Conciliação e Igualdade de Género do Mecanismo Financeiro do Espaço Económico Europeu - EEA Grants. Tem como entidade operadora a Comissão para a Cidadania e a Igualdade de Género (CIG) e como responsável científico o Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos de Género (CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa), em parceira com a Universidade da Maia, a Universidade Aberta, a Associação Plano i, a Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa – Delegação de Braga, o SOS RACISMO e a Odalnaeringshage
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