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This seminar will present and discuss the final results of the project Pandemic and Academia at Home (FCT 077/2020), coordinated by Virgínia Ferreira (FEUC/CES). It will feature interventions by Virgínia Ferreira (FEUC/CES), Cristina C. Vieira (UC/CEAD-UAlg), Mónica Lopes (CES) and Caynnã Santos (CES).

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Virgínia Ferreira  - Associate Professor of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and researcher at the Center for Social Sciences. The common theme in her body of work is the analysis of how the social relationships between men and women in a society are shaped and re-shaped by various social processes and structures, namely: shifting economic and political conditions; technological revolution; labour market regulations, welfare state regimes and other societal institutions; and the attitudes, plans and behaviour of women and men in the domestic sphere. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, her research has focused on the feminization of occupations, the changing patterns of sexual segregation of overall labour market and employment, and to the evolution of public and European equality policies. Member of the editorial board of national and international journals of social sciences and women's studies. Founding member of the Portuguese Association of Women's Studies. Since 2004, is a member of the European Commission Expert Group on Gender and Employment. Published work includes articles and essays in national and international periodicals and collective books

Cristina C. Vieira has a degree in Psychology and a PhD in Education Sciences from the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Coimbra, where she is an Associate Professor. She has over three decades of university teaching experience in the area of scientific research methodologies. She is an integrated member of the Centre for Research in Adult Education and Community Intervention (CEAD) at the University of Algarve. She is a member of the Board of the European Society for Research in Adult Education (ESREA), of the Portuguese Society of Educational Sciences (SPCE) and of the Portuguese Association of Women's Studies (APEM). She is part of the National Education Council as representative of women's non-governmental organisations (NGOsM). She participates regularly with the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in evaluation panels for projects and applications for research grants in the area of Education Sciences.

Mónica Lopes is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) integrating the Thematic Line 2 - Democracy, Justice and Human Rights. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Sociology from Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra. Her current research interests include gender relations, gender policies, social policies, (impact) evaluation and third sector. Since 2002, she has participated in several research/evaluation projects exploring gender (equality) issues. Most recently, she was a member of the research team of the project "Local Gender Equality", funded by the EEA GRANTS, which provided methodologies and tools for the gender equality mainstreaming of policies, processes, and practices at the local level, and was co-coordinator of the impact evaluation study of a pilot project to promote the desegregation of career choices within secondary school students. Currently, she leads the Portuguese team of the H2020 project "SUPERA - Supporting the Promotion of Equality in Research and Academia", is responsible for the scientific review of the EEAGrants project "Gender Equal-Research", co-PI of the national project "ENGENDER - Gender mainstreaming in curricula and pedagogical practices in Portuguese Public Universities and member of the research team of the European project "PHOENIX - Listening to Citizen Voices for a Greener Europe".

Caynnã Santos holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Coimbra, an MA in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo and a BA also from USP. Currently, he is part of the project funded by FCT "ENGENDER: Gender mainstreaming in curricula and pedagogical practices in Portuguese Public Universities" at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. He has developed his research and published in the areas of Women's, Gender and Feminist Studies, working mainly on the following themes: sociology of gender relations, post-structuralist feminist theories, cultural pedagogies of gender and new feminist perspectives on the body.