Biography

Alison Neilson is a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Studies CICS.NOVA at FCSH.UNL, and an associated researcher at CESin the Science, Economy and Society (NECES) group. She conducts narrative and arts-informed research on the way sustainability is understood and manifest in education and policy. Her current research is about the ways that people who live on islands, Iceland and the Azores, learn to be part of the governance system related to life on the sea. She studies the processes of education, including informal, nonformal and formal, to understand how people are encultured into governance structures and how the issues and structures themselves are constructed. https://coimbra.academia.edu/AlisonNeilson https://www.cics.nova.fcsh.unl.pt/people/integrated-researchers/alison-neilson http://www.ces.uc.pt/en/investigacao/projetos-de-investigacao/projetos-financiados/education-for-active-citizenship