Ana Espírito Santo |
Doutorada em Ciências Políticas e Sociais pelo Instituto Universitário Europeu (EUI), em Florença (2011), Ana Espírito-Santo é, desde 2011, Professora Auxiliar convidada no ISCTE-IUL e investigadora no CIES-IUL. Previamente, trabalhou como Professora Assistente na University of London, Birkbeck College, em Londres (2011), como Assistente de Investigação no Instituto de Ciências Sociais, ICS (2002-2005), como Investigadora Júnior convidada no Social Science Research Center (WZB), em Berlim (2005-2006) e como Investigadora Júnior na Universidade Complutense de Madrid (2007). É licenciada em Sociologia (2001) e mestre em Ciência Política (2006), ambos os graus obtidos no ISCTE. As suas principais áreas de investigação são: género e política, representação política e o impacto dos sistemas eleitorais.
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André Freire |
Associate Professor (Political Science and Methodology) with Agrégation / Habilitation, Head of the Doctoral Program in Political Science (with a specialization in International Relations), 2015-present date, and Head of the Bachelor Degree in Political Science, 2009-2015, both at ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon University Institute). He is also senior researcher at CIES-IUL (Center for Studies and Research in Sociology). For some years now, Freire has acted as external expert (for scientific and technical purposes) for FCT, A3ES, Portuguese Parliament, National Electoral Commission (CNE), Ministry of Internal Affairs (DGAI-MAI), Council of Europe, EU – COST Actions, among others.
Freire’s research interests include electoral behavior, political attitudes, political institutions (especially electoral systems), political elites and political representation. Freire has been coordinator and researcher in several research projects (national and international) related to those (and other) research topics, whether in the CIES-IUL, or in other institutions (IOM – International Organization of Migrations, IHC-FCSH-UNL – Nova University, ICS-UL – Social Sciences Research Institute of the University of Lisbon, etc.). Namely, he was one of the founders and directors of the Portuguese National Election Study (during 2001-2006), and has been conducting three research projects about political representation 2007-2019. Freire has published (in different languages) several books, book chapters, and papers in (national and international) academic journals. https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/public/person/arlf See full CV here |
Sarah Childs |
Sarah Childs is Professor of Politics and Gender at the University of Bristol, UK. She has published widely on women’s political representation over the last decade or so. Her research expertise centres on descriptive and substantive representation, the concept of critical mass, political parties and parliaments, and conservatism, gender and representation. Prof Childs is currently researching feminized institutions with the UK Parliament and political parties. Key articles have been published in Political Studies, Politics and Gender, Parliamentary Affairs and Party Politics. In 2015 she published two co-edited books Gender, Conservatism and Representation and Deeds and Words with ECPR press, with Celis and Campbell respectively. Her most recent monograph is Sex, Gender and the Conservative Party: From Iron Lady to Kitten Heels’, 2012, with Paul Webb, Palgrave. In 2009-10 Prof Childs was the gender Special Adviser to the UK Parliament’s ‘Speaker’ Conference’ on representation and in 2014 the Special Adviser to the All Party Parliamentary Group, Women in Parliament Inquiry. In 2015 she received the Political Studies Association ‘Special Recognition Award’ for her work on women’s representation. Having been ‘embedded’ in the UK House of Commons, she has just published a report, ‘The Good Parliament’ outlining necessary reforms to deliver a diversity sensitive UK Parliament..
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