Research Group
5: Health, Population and Well-being
Research Areas
Epistemologies and methodologies.
Gender studies.
Health, Biotechnology and Well-being.
Society, Culture, Heritage and Identity.
Bio note
Rosalina Pisco Costa is a sociologist, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and affiliated researcher at CICS.NOVA.UÉvora, University of Évora, Portugal. She holds a degree in Sociology, a master's degree with a specialisation in Family and Population, and a PhD from the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She teaches undergraduate, master's and doctoral courses in sociology and maternal and obstetric health nursing. She researches topics related to families, gender and personal life; life course, childhood and youth; studies of everyday life, mobility and consumption; social time and stages of life; ritualisation, memory and family aesthetics; digitisation and platformisation of the family; paths, transitions and experiences in higher education; history and institutionalisation of sociology in Portugal; QDA, qualitative, sensory and creative social research methodologies. Based on her teaching and research practice, she frequently uses autoethnographic writing to reflect on epistemology and ethics.
