About
Research Context
Portugal | Brazil
Research Interests
Applied Anthropology | Human Rights | Gender | Violence
Institutional Subunit
UC
Biographical Note
Filipa Alvim is a social anthropologist, a visiting professor at the School of Social Sciences of the University of Évora, and a collaborator at CRIA – Centre for Research in Anthropology. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from ISCTE, with the research project "Só muda a moeda": Representations of Human Trafficking and Sex Work in Portugal (funded by FCT - SFRH/BD/44494/2008), published in 2018.
In 2022, she began teaching at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Évora as a visiting professor. Between 2016 and 2021, she was a visiting professor in the Department of Life Sciences at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra. From 2014 to 2020, she was also invited to teach at ISPA – University Institute of Psychological, Social, and Life Sciences.
Filipa Alvim has also supervised and co-supervised several master's dissertations and doctoral theses in Anthropology.
In 2003, shortly after completing her degree in Anthropology at ISCTE, she began working with Amnesty International Portugal, initially as an intern, focusing on gender issues, domestic and sexual violence, female genital mutilation, and human trafficking and smuggling. As part of her work with Amnesty International, she conducted research for and about the "Stop Violence Against Women 2005" campaign, which led to the publication of Mulheres (In)Visíveis (2005).
