CES is organized in various research groups - decentralized units comprising a group of researchers who are interested in closely related areas or topics.
CCArq | Cities, Cultures, and Architecture Research Group
Coordination: Nancy Duxbury, Cláudia Pato de Carvalho and Antonieta Reis Leite
Research Areas: Cities and Urban Change; Art and Conceptual Practice; Spatial Heritages and Cultures; Architecture and Spatial Practices; Culture in Sustainable Development
NECES | Science, Economy and Society Research Group
Coordination: Filipe Santos, Hugo Pinto and Susana de Noronha
Research Areas: Crises, (Un)Sustainability and dynamics of capitalism; Political economy, economic policy and economic polity; Risk, territories and governance; Science and technology studies
DECIDe | Democracy, Citizenship and Law Research Group
Coordination: Ana Oliveira, Cristiano Gianolla and Paula Casaleiro
Research Areas: Human rights, violence(s) and citizenship; State, justice administration and public policy; Democratisation, political participation, and access to rights and justice through a comparative perspective; (Anti-)racism, citizenship, and political processes; Memory, identity constructions and recognition; Consumers' indebtedness and overindebtedness
NHUMEP | Humanities, Migration and Peace Studies Research Group
Coordination: Inês Nascimento Rodrigues, Patricia Silva and Tatiana Moura
Research Areas: Discourses, identities, and representations; Immigration and Emigration: social dynamics and policies; History, memory, diasporas and post-colonialisms; Poetics, translation and comparative studies; Peace, interventionism and global governance; Violence, war, and post-conflict cultures
POSTRADE | Social Policies, Labour and Inequalities Research Group
Coordination: Ana Maria Seixas, Mauro Serapioni and Paula Sequeiros
Research Areas: Social policies for citizenship; Social Risks and vulnerability: collective action, networks and organizations; Classes and social inequalities; Labour relations and trade unionism