Personal Presentation

Paula Guerra is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Porto and a Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the same University. Paula is an Adjunct Associate Professor of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research in Australia. She is the founder/coordinator of the Network All the Arts: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Network of the Sociology of Culture and the Arts. Paula is the founder/coordinator of the KISMIF (kismifconference.com and kismifcommunity.com). Paula is co-coordinator of the Research Network on the Sociology of Art at ESA. She coordinates several research projects on youth cultures, the sociology of the arts and culture, co-creation, methodology and research techniques, DIY cultures, among other subjects. She has likewise advised and supervised several Master's, PhD, and Post-Doc projects in the aforementioned areas. She is a member of the editorial council of several national and international journals, as well as an editor and reviewer of international articles and books. Paula is editor-in-chief (with Andy Bennett) of SAGE journal DIY, Alternative Cultures and Society, and the Bloomsbury Academic Series Critical Studies in Do-it Yourself Cultures by Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.

Áreas de Interesse

1. Social sciences > Sociology
2. Social sciences > Sociology > Social changes
3. Social sciences > Sociology > Societal behaviour
4. Social sciences > Sociology > Socio-economic research
5. Social sciences > Sociology > Urban sociology