Apresentação Pessoal

Rita Faria is currently an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the School of Criminology - Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, Director (and founding member) of the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Crime, Justice and Security - CJS, and Director of the only PhD program in Criminology in Portugal. She is the Director of the only PhD Program in Criminology in Portugal.

She holds a PhD in Criminology, an MA in Sociology and a Degree in Law.

She has been actively researching and publishing on matters such as environmental crimes and Green Criminology, as well as white-collar crime, financial, corporate and occupational crimes, including research misconduct; as well as gender violence and violence against migrants. She has extensive experience in supervising dissertations and theses, both on white-collar and environmental crimes, as well as in gendered issues in Criminology, and has been teaching at the Undergraduate and Masters in Criminology, as well as in Doctoral Schools and research seminars in other European universities.

She is Editor in Chief of "Criminology in Europe", the newsletter of the European Society of Criminology, and Board member of the same society. She is President of the European Working Group on Organizational Crime (EUROC) and, until recently, was founder and board member of the Working Group on Qualitative Research Methodologies and Epistemologies (WG-QRME) - both working groups of the European Society of Criminology.

Currently, Rita Faria is part of the Editorial Board of Crime, Law & Social Change and of Qualitative Criminology.


In May 2015, Rita received the Excellence in Doctoral Research on Research Integrity Award for "Creative and critical use of theory for understanding research behaviour" at the Doctoral Forum of the 4th World Conference on Research Integrity. And in 2023 her research profile was highlighted by Centro Ciência Viva as one of the 101 female Portuguese scientists. She has been PI, co-PI or member of multiple funded research projects with a focus on Portugal and with a comparative European focus as well.

Áreas de Interesse

1. Social sciences
2. Social sciences > Criminology
3. Social sciences > Sociology