Research Areas
Democracy, Governance and Public Policy.
Inequalities and Social Exclusion.
Justice and Human Rights.
Epistemologies and methodologies.
Bio note
Annabelle Dias Felix is a post-doctoral researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA) at NOVA University Lisbon. She specialises in comparative politics and public policy. During her master's studies at IHEAL (Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle) and doctoral studies (Université de Montréal), she focused on issues of public security, human rights and democracy, studying community policing programmes in Latin America. She specifically analysed the implementation of these programmes in working class neighbourhoods in Brazil and Mexico. To this end, she adopted an ethnographic approach combining field observations, semi-structured interviews and focus groups. She is currently continuing her research in Portugal, where she is also studying policing and human rights. Her work has been published in Policing & Society, Journal of Latin American Studies and Lien Social et Politiques, among others, as well as in collective books.
