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March 2, 2024

NOVO: Master's thesis on sexual harassment in public spaces

On March 2nd, the newspaper NOVO published an interview with student Ana Neves, from the Master's program in Risks and Violence in Contemporary Societies: Analysis and Social Intervention at the Social Work Institute of Lusófona University - Lisbon University Center, about her master's thesis on sexual harassment in public spaces, supervised by Professor Nélson Ramalho. 
The student studied this topic by defining as a sample the female students of higher education in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, and several shared results confirm that this type of harassment is normalized by society but extremely prevalent in the lives of most women and girls, greatly influencing their freedom.
April 25, 2024

Social Work and the Democratic Values of April

On the 22nd of April, the Lusófona University hosted a prominent event entitled “Social Work and Democratic Values”. The event, which will take place in the Agostinho da Silva Auditorium from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., marks a crucial academic initiative to reflect on the fundamental principles of democracy and its impact on the field of social work.
March 5, 2024

Social Policies, Interculturality and Social Intervention

The Lusófona University, Centro Universitário do Porto, promoted an open class on March 5th, with the aim of reflecting on social policies and interculturality, with an emphasis on the challenges of social intervention in Portugal. The guest speaker was Professor Hélia Bracons, Director of the Degree in Social Work at the Lusófona University of the University Center of Lisbon, who has been working on these themes, where she highlighted the importance of developing cultural sensitivity and care for others in the area of Social Work.
April, 2024

Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science

Just out under the auspices of Almedina Publisher, “Manual de Métodos de Investigação em Ciência Política” (Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science) features Susana Rogeiro Nina and Liliana Reis as co-editors, with a preface by António Costa Pinto. It is a manual that seeks to fill a gap in research methodology manuals in Political Science written in the Portuguese language.
April 5, 2024

Next Generation: You, Democracy, and European Integration

On April 5th, Susana Rogeiro Nina was invited to participate in the event Next Generation: You, Democracy, and European Integration at the University of Beira Interior, where she spoke about the effects of exposure to televised debates and the evaluation of political leaders, focusing on the case of the 2014 Spitzenkandidaten.
April, 9, 2024

Book Launch

The presentation of the book “Secularization – Genealogies, Models and Debates” (edited in Portuguese), by Professor Jorge Botelho Moniz will take place in the Professor José Araújo Auditorium, on April 9 at 6:45 p.m.