CICS.NOVA

CICS.NOVA.UAÃ§ores

The Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences - Campus of the University of Azores, CICS.NOVA.UAc is the result of the integration of researchers from the Centre of Social Studies of the University of Azores (CES-UA) in the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CICS.NOVA). The CICS.NOVA.UAc is a decentralized unit of the CICS.NOVA, dedicated to the development of scientific research, education, cultural extension and provision of services to the community, with an interdisciplinary range, especially in the following scientific areas: a) Sociology; b) Demography; c) Psychology; d) Educational Sciences.

With the Regional and the Republic Governments as well with the other poles of CICS.NOVA, the CICS.NOVA.UAc develops its activity in the evaluation and definition of public policies, in the diagnosis of social problems and the characterization of the categories and social groups targeted by public policies, playing thus a significant role in the design and evaluation of the impacts of these policies. The Centre plays a role in transferring knowledge to the Governments in areas such as employment, education, social protection, youth policies (in particularly in the Azorean Youth Observatory), problems associated with children and young people at risk, inequalities of gender and domestic violence, migration, cultural consumption, fishing communities, among others.

Coordinator: Pilar Sousa Lima Damião de Medeiros

Team – Integrated PhD Members:

Álvaro Borralho
Ana Cristina Pires Palos
Ana Isabel dos Santos Matias Diogo
Fernando Jorge Afonso Diogo
Francisco José Rodrigues Sousa
Gilberta Margarida Pavão Nunes Rocha
Jorge Ávila de Lima
Osvaldo Dias Lopes da Silva
Pilar Sousa Lima Damião de Medeiros
Rolando Lima Lalanda Gonçalves
Sandro Nuno Ferreira de Serpa
Suzana Nunes Caldeira