Apresentação Pessoal

Lígia Ferro completed her graduation studies at the Faculty of Arts - University of Porto, receiving the Eng. António de Almeida / UP Award for the best student graduating in Sociology in 2004. In 2011, she received her European Ph.D. from the University Institute of Lisbon, ISCTE-IUL (advisors: Professor António Firmino da Costa and Professor Joan Pujadas - URV). She was a visiting scholar at several universities in Europe, the United States of America and Brazil. Currently she is assistant professor in the Sociology Department, Faculty of Arts - University of Porto. She conducted research with a FCT post-doc grant in the Institute of Sociology, UP and in the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, CIES-IUL. She has carried out fieldwork in Porto, Lisbon, Barcelona, Paris, New York, Boston and Rio de Janeiro. Lígia Ferro was President of the European Sociological Association (term 2021-2024), ESA Research Network 37 - Urban Sociology coordinator (2015-2017) and is a member of the board of the European Network of Observatories in the Fields of Arts and Cultural Education - UNESCO (since September, 2017). She was a member of the Deontology Council of the Portuguese Sociological Association from 2012 to 2016. She is a member of the directive committee of the same association from 2016 to 2021 when she was elected Vice-President of the Association. Her research has been funded mainly by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação Luso-Americana, European Commission and High Commission for Migrations. She currently acts as an advisor and co-advisor of Master and Ph.D. theses in social sciences. She is the author and editor of several publications, including the book "Moving Cities: Contested Views on Urban Life" (2018, Springer)  and the article "Jump Lisbon! Notes from an Ethnography of Urban Flows" (2015, Portuguese Journal of Social Science). She is also the editor of the Book Series ENO Yearbooks (Springer). Lígia Ferro’s research develops the ethnographic and other mixed methods approaches. Lately she has been working on cultural practices, arts education, migration, socio-professional integration and action research, especially in urban contexts.

Áreas de Interesse

1. Social sciences