Doctorate Degree (PhD)

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Accredited
6 Years
30 Jul 2020
Accreditation DGES
Initial registry R/A-Ef 1025/2011 de 18-03-2011
Update registry R/A-Ef 1025/2011/AL01 de 02-03-2015
Contacts
School of Sociology and Public Policy
Secretariat
Sedas Nunes Building (Building I), room 1E03
secretariado.espp @iscte-iul.pt
(+351) 210 464 015
9:30 - 18:00



Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte)

PhD Management
 Building 4, room 329
doutoramentos.cies@iscte-iul.pt
(+351) 210 464 195
monday to friday, 10:00 - 13:00 / 14:00 - 18:00

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Lectured in Portuguese
Teaching Type In person

The teaching staff that coordinates the activities of this programme, including the lecturing of the compulsory and elective curricular units, is made up of professors and researchers.

The other researchers with PhDs at CIES also participate in the research and thesis supervision of the doctoral candidates. The programme furthermore incorporate collaborations with other Portuguese and international specialists in Social Work, who organize conferences, lead advanced seminars, and also supervise theses. 

Faculty for (2023/2024)

Qualitative Methods in Social Research
Ana Caetano, Ph.D. in Sociology (ISCTE-IUL), is a researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL) and an assistant professor in the Department of Social Research Methods of the School of Sociology and Public Policy at ISCTE-IUL. Her main research interests are biographical disruptions, personal reflexivity, structure-agency relation and biographical methods. She recently coordinated the project "Biographical echoes: triangulation in study of life histories" (2018-2022) and she was also part of the project "Linked lives: a mixed multilevel longitudinal approach to family life course" (2018-2022), both funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).  
Advanced Data Analysis Methods
PhD in Sociology, in Theory and Method. Full Professor in the Department of Social Research Methods at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon. Director of School of Sociology and Public Policies. Director of the Postgraduate in Data Analysis in Social Sciences. Expert in methodological issues and quantitative data analysis. Senior researcher at the Center for the Research and Study of Sociology (CIES-ISCTE-IUL). Area of research is focused inside the quantitative and multivariate methods for categorical and quantitative variables, mainly methods of interdependence and dependence; multilevel models; longitudinal models; measurement models, mediation and moderation models; estimation with bootstrapping. She teaches several courses of multivariate statistics and advanced data analyses on Master and PhD Programs. She has coordinated research projects and she has participated in several research national and international projects, developing her skills of advanced data analysis with quantitative methods. She has published several books and several articles in Portugal and abroad.
Construction of Theory in Social Work
Jorge Ferreira, Doutor em Serviço Social na especialidade de Serviço Social, Politicas Sociais e Sociedade, (Aprovado com Distinção e Louvor) realizado em associação entre ISCTE/ISSSL, sobre o tema: Serviço Social e Modelos de Bem-Estar para a Infância. Modus Operandi do Assistente Social na Promoção da Protecção à Criança e à Família. Mestrado em Serviço Social sobre o tema, Intervenção Social e Intervenção Judicial no problema Criança Maltratada. Relação e/ou Intersecção (ISSSL:1998), após a Licenciatura em Serviço Social (ISSSL: 1990). Realização de um curso pós-graduado no Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada - História das Ideias e das grandes Doutrinas em criminologia (ISPA: 1993), frequência do ano Zero «Abordagem Sistémica» do curso de Terapia Familiar (Associação Portuguesa de terapia Familiar: 1997), realização de provas de Aptidão Pedagógica e Capacidade Científica (ISSSL: 2000) sobre o tema, Mediação e Intervenção Social em Justiça. Realização de Formação Prática de aprofundamento após Licenciatura no estrangeiro, em Reabilitação Psiquiátrica na Fundação de Waterheuvel, Amsterdão / Holanda (1993), em Reabilitação Psiquiátrica na Société Parisiene d?aide á lá Santé mental - SPASM .Paris (1993); Reinserção e Integração Profissional na Scotish Association for mental healt . Escócia (1994). Participação em programas e projectos de investigação nas áreas da Transferência dos perfis de acção, formação, para desenvolvimento da relação de ajuda aos públicos em situação de abandono (Crianças, Adolescentes) ; Trabalho Social na Europa. Modelo Comparativo em Línguas Românicas e nos domínios do Sistema de Protecção à Criança; Direitos da Criança, politicas sociais de Infância e Intervenção Social com Famílias. Tem 13 artigos científicos publicados e várias comunicações em seminários nacionais e internacionais e comunicações em congressos. Colaborador da Revista Katálisis (revista semestral com circulação em países de língua hispânica e em Portugal dirigida a Assistentes Sociais e Profissionais de áreas afins, Professores, Investigadores). Professor de diferentes Unidades Curriculares ao nível de 1º e 2º Ciclo. Professor Visitante na Universidade Complutense de Madrid (Escuela de Trabajo Social), e na Universidade de Granada (Escuela de Trabajo Social), colaborador com instituições de ensino superior em Portugal (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa . ISCTE) e nos programas de cooperação científica de docentes da Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa (Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Instituto Politécnico de Beja, Universidade dos Açores). No ano de 2009, Acreditado Avaliador Externo das Novas oportunidades. Vogal de Júri do concurso de dirigente de grau intermédio de 2º grau da Administração Pública. Coordenador pedagógico e cientifico e professor do Curso de Especialização Tecnológica (CET) «Acolhimento em Instituição». (2008/2010). Várias participações no âmbito do Programa Socrates Erasmus (mobilidade de professores) com Universidades Europeia: Complutense de Madrid Espanha, universidade de Kalmar Suécia, Universidade de Mastrich, Holanda, Universidade Bicocca Milão Itália e Universidade de Granada Espanha. Áreas Cientificas de Formação: Teoria e Metodologia do Serviço Social, Teoria Critica e Serviço Social, Investigação em Serviço Social, Seminários de Prática em Serviço Social, Avaliação de Programas de Politicas Sociais, Serviço Social Internacional; metodologias de Investigação, Metodologias Especificas de Intervenção em Gerontologia Social, intervenção Social em Situações de Risco, Intervenção Social com Famílias Maltratantes, intervenção em Rede, Comportamentos Desviantes, Introdução à Criminologia e Vitimologia.
Public Policies and Social Protection
Sociologist, associated professor and Head of the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at ISCTE-IUL and researcher at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology, since 1987. Member of the National Council of Education. Former diretor of the Scientific Journal Sociology, Problems and Practices. The main research themes are policies to combat poverty and social exclusion, social policies, education and training policies, popular cultures, rehabilitation of people with disabilities, and planning and evaluation methodologies. He is the author of books, chapters of books,  articles and other papers (more than one hundred and a half) published in Portugal, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Mauritania, Belgium and Angola. He presented communications and lectures in about two hundred scientific meetings in Portugal and abroad. He was Director General of the Department of Studies, Prospects and Planning of the Ministry of Labor and Social Solidarity (1998-2001), Director General of the Directorate General of Innovation and Curriculum Development of the Ministry of Education (2006-2008) and President of the Agency For the Qualification (2008-2011). He was a member of the Employment Committee of the European Union. He is an active collaborator of diverse associations, of social, professional and local character.
Social Work Research and Professional Competences Development | Research Seminar in Social Work
Maria João Pena holds a PhD in Social Work, MA in Sociology and bachelor degree in Social Work. Director bachelor degree in Social Work is also professor at master and doctorate program. She is a researcher in CIES-IUL (Centre for research and studies in Sociology). The research interests are in Theory and Epistemology of social work , social work practices with children and families, at school and in disability.
Paradigms and Models of Social Work Research | Phd Thesis in Social Work
PhD with international mention by the University of Huelva (Spain) in the Department of Sociology and Social Work. Full-time Social Work Assistant Professor at ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon teaching different courses at the bachelors, masters and PhD Social Work programs. He holds the position of Master's Program Director in Social Work. He is an integrated researcher of CIES-IUL, Agora Group (UHU) and Member of the Migration Research Center (CIM: UHU). His areas of interest are linked to Immigration (Superdiversity, Interculturalism, Mixed Couples, and Cultural Heritage in Children); Social Work Education; Social Exclusion, Human Rights and Social Work; and Digital Social Work.
Contacts
School of Sociology and Public Policy
Secretariat
Sedas Nunes Building (Building I), room 1E03
secretariado.espp @iscte-iul.pt
(+351) 210 464 015
9:30 - 18:00
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