About

Research Context

Portugal | Brazil

Research Interests

Applied Anthropology | Human Rights | Gender | Violence

Institutional Subunit

UC

Biographical Note

Filipa Alvim is a social anthropologist, an invited assistant professor at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Évora; a researcher at the Center for Research in Anthropology, part of the research group on Governance, Policies and Daily Life; member of APA - Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia and has a PhD in Social Anthropology from ISCTE-IUL - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, with the research project “It only chages the currency”: Representations of Trafficking in Human Beings and Sex Work in Portugal (2009-2013 , with the financial support of FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology (Reference SFRH/BD/44494/2008), which aimed to give voice to actors, individual and institutional, directly or indirectly involved in the conceptual reality, prevention and fight against it. Prior to these experiences, she worked with Amnesty International Portugal, in the areas of human rights and international criminal law (International Criminal Court), specifically on the issues of gender, domestic and sexual violence, trafficking and smuggling of human beings, and female genital mutilation. Between 2014 and 2020 he was a professor at ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences (former Instituto Superior de Psicologia Apl icada), where he taught Social Sciences and Social and Cultural Anthropology. Between 2016 and 2021, she was an invited assistant professor at the Department of Life Sciences at FCTUC – Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra, where she taught the subjects Modern Social Theory, Anthropology of the Body, Advanced Readings in Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Anthropology of Performance, Visual Anthropology, Material Culture and Museology, and Introduction to Medical Anthropology from the Degree in Anthropology; and also the subjects Processes and Images: research methods in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology and Global Health, Project in Medical Anthropology, Culture and Society: Contemporary Themes in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Development and Humanitarian Aid, and Project in Anthropology Social and Cultural Master's Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Medical Anthropology. She is also supervisor and co-supervisor of Master's dissertations and Doctoral theses. In 2022, she began teaching at the School of Social Sciences at Colégio do Espírito Santo at the University of Évora, as an invited assistant professor, integrated in the Department of Sociology, where she teaches the subjects of Anthropology of Tourism and Ethnography and Tourism of the Tourism course; of Sociology of Cultural Heritage and Sociology of Culture of the course in Sociology; of Cultural Anthropology from the Sociology and Psychology courses; Anthropology of Education from the Education course; and Space Anthropology from the Architecture course. The academic guidelines are Governance, Policies and Daily Life, mainly linked to research interests on Human Rights and Culture, Violence, Gender and Sexuality, Agency, Sex Work, Trafficking in Human Beings and Smuggling, Public Policy and Applied Anthropology. Science ID: 9415-E078-D7F7 Orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6666-1333 Scopus Author ID: 35340952200