Ana Ferreira é investigadora auxiliar no CICS.NOVA, onde desenvolve investigação em sociologia da ciência e sociologia da inovação. O seu trabalho tem por objectivo compreender de que forma transformações nas organizações científicas (crescentemente replicando modelos empresariais e dependentes de trabalho precário), nas práticas científicas (enquadradas em projectos de curta duração e orientadas para uma aplicação do conhecimento) e cultura epistémica (que articula uma cultura meritocrática com a retórica da auto-realização) se traduzem, por um lado, na produção de conhecimento científico, e por outro, nas trajectórias académicas e nas trajectórias de vida de investigadores.

Interesses de Investigação:

Conhecimento. Ciência. Inovação. Biomedicina. Interdisciplinaridade.

Principais Projectos:

Financed Team Research Projects

• Grant: Prémio de Investigação Colaborativa Santander Totta – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa 2017/2018
  Project: Stress-induced neuroinflammation: mechanisms and implications for decision-making and performance
  Date: 2019-2021
  Scientific Areas: Life Sciences; Sociology and Psychology
  Co-Coordinator and Co-Principal Investigator: Ana Margarida Grenho Ferreira
  Partners: Raffaella Gozzelino (Principal Investigator; CEDOC, NOVA Medical School); Pedro Neves (NOVA SBE)
  Total Budget: 25.000€
  CICS.NOVA Budget: 12.500€
   
• Grant: Research Projects in all Scientific Domains – 2014, financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology of the Portuguese Ministry of Science (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia)
  Project: The social foundations of technological innovation processes: strategic decision-making under uncertainty
  Reference: PTDC/IVC-ESCT/0073/2014
  Date: 2016-2019
  Scientific Areas: Social Studies of Science and Technology; Sociology
  Coordinator and Principal Investigator: Ana Margarida Grenho Ferreira
  Total Budget (equivalent to CICS.NOVA Budget): 155.715€

Financed Individual Grants

• Assistant Researcher: Individual research contract financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology of the Portuguese Ministry of Science under the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus 2017
  Project: From the bench to the bedside: producing biomedical knowledge in innovation-driven contexts
  Reference: CEECIND/01053/2017
  Date: 2020 – 2026 (max)
   

• Individual Research Contract: Research position financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology of the Portuguese Ministry of Science (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) under the programme “Estímulo ao Emprego Científico”, Norma Transitória, DL 57/2016 and Lei 57/2017
  Project: From the bench to the bedside: producing biomedical knowledge in innovation-driven contexts
  Reference: DL57/2016/CP1453/CT0077
  Date: 2019 – 2025
   

• Grant: Post-Doctoral Fellowship financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology of the Portuguese Ministry of Science (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia)
  Project: The social foundations of technological innovation processes: strategic decision-making and uncertainty
  Reference: SFRH/BPD/77611/2011
  Date: 2012 – 2018

• Ferreira, A. (2022). Living on the edge: Continuous precarity undermines academic freedom but not academic identity in the neoliberal academia. In A. Vatansever & Y. Kölemen (Eds.), Free as a bird: Academic precariat and the state of academic freedom in the global North (pp. 79-100). Routledge.  https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003256984-7
• Ferreira, A. (2022). Modelling social action: From biological to social (re)constructions enabling, constraining, and motivating social decision-making. In N. Rezaei (Ed.), Brain, decision making and mental health (pp. ). Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031159589
• Ferreira, A., Teixeira, A. L., & Dantas, A. R. (2021). Making sense of heterogeneous innovative social action: Co-constructing the past and imagining the future. International Review of Sociology, 31(3), 432-452. https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2021.2015980
• Ferreira, A., & Teixeira, A. L. (2019). Profiles of malaria research in Portugal: Organizing, doing and thinking in science under capitalism. Science and Technology Studies, 32(3), 62-87. https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.60861
• Ferreira, A., & Teixeira, A. L. (2016). Intra and extra-organizational foundations of innovation processes: The information and communication technology sector under the crisis in Portugal. International Journal of Innovation Management, 20(6), 62-87. http://doi.org/10.1142/S1363919616500560