About

Research Context

Portugal

Research Interests

Care | Gender | Work | Care Policies

Institutional Subunit

ISCTE

Biographical Note

With a degree in Anthropology from FCSH-UNL, a Master in Public Policies from Iscte, Sara is a PhD candidate in Anthropology (FCSH-Iscte) with a research grant from FCT (2022.12855.BD). She has a specialization in Care Policies with a Gender Perspective at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). She has carried out research on the social and political organization of care, with a particular focus on informal care and in the Portuguese case. Her current project has expanded the analysis of unpaid care to different forms of paid and unpaid care at home in Portugal. Her doctoral project is entitled "Practices and representations of care in old age - continuities and heterogeneities between different configurations of home care".

Status

PhD student (2022-12-01)