Mónica Lopes

Contacts
monica@ces.uc.pt

Biography

Mónica Lopes is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), where she is part of Research Group 2 - Democracy, Justice, and Human Rights. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra. Her current research interests encompass gender relations, gender policies, social policies, (impact) evaluation, and the third sector. Since 2002, she has contributed to numerous (action) research projects and evaluation studies examining gender relations, assessing the implementation and impact of public (gender) policies, and developing tools and frameworks to support gender mainstreaming across various domains and institutional contexts, particularly in academia. Most recently, she led the Portuguese team of the H2020 project "SUPERA - Supporting the Promotion of Equality in Research and Academia," oversaw the scientific review of the EEAGrants project "Gender Equal-Research," and served as co-PI of the national project "ENGENDER - Gender mainstreaming in curricula and pedagogical practices in Portuguese Public Universities." Currently, she is a member of the research team for the European project "PHOENIX - Listening to Citizen Voices for a Greener Europe."


Latest Publications

Article in Scientific journal

Esteves, Denise; Holz, Sheila; Lopes, Mónica; Sandri, Sinara (2024), "Exploring the nexus of gender and environment in the H2020 PHOENIX project: insights from the design of a gender equality plan", Frontiers in Environmental Science, 12

Article in Scientific journal

Santos, Caynnã de Camargo; Lopes, Mónica; Monteiro, Rosa; Vieira, Cristina C.; Ferreira, Virgínia (2024), "Estudos sobre as mulheres, de género e feministas em Portugal: uma análise bibliométrica comparativa entre Web of Science e Scopus (1995-2021)", ex aequo - Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres, 49

Book

Monteiro, Rosa; Lopes, Mónica; Vieira, Cristina; Ferreira, Virgínia; Santos, Caynnã (2024), Políticas públicas de igualdade de género na educação em Portugal: da legislação à difícil transposição prática [Public gender equality policies in education in Portugal: From legislation to the challenge of practical implementation]. Coimbra: CES-UC

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