Professor in ISCTE-IUL since 1983 in the fields of the Sociology of Work and Organisations and Employment Relations. Throughout his career, he has also been engaged in research and published in these areas, generally with a focus upon questions related to trade unionism. He founded and is still Director of the Masters in Labor Studies and Labor Relations, where he teaches courses related to trade unionism and Industrial Relations. He has also assumed various positions with scientific and departmental responsibilities.

Filipa Pinho is a sociologist and holds a PhD degree in sociology awarded by Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. She is invited assistant professor at the School of Sociology and Public Policy (ESPP, Iscte), since the school year 2019/2020. Was, between January 2019 and September 2021, a post doctoral researcher at CES Coimbra, on the project Experiences and Expectations of Return of New Portuguese Emigrants: Reintegration and Mobilities, in which CIES_Iscte was also a participant research centre (and in which Filipa is associate researcher). Her research interests have been focused mainly in international migration (Portuguese emigration, Brazilian emigration to Portugal, migration policy, refugees) and, more recently, on housing data (participanes on the project LxHabidata) . Was invited assistant researcher of the projects PandPAS and Below 10, at CIES-IUL, in 2018. Before, Filipa was the Executive Coordinator at the Emigration Observatory since its foundation, in 2009, until 2013. She has been, also, a project coordinator and researcher at International Organization for Migration in Lisbon (in 2004 and in 2014) and researcher in several projects, among which: Empreender 2020 - Regresso de uma Geração Preparada/ The return of a prepared generation - AEP Foundation (2017); Integration and political participation of immigrants (2015), for the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA); Support and Opposition do Migration in a Comparative Perspective (2017). She worked as a Consultant for IPPS-Iscte and for PPLL, Lda, and worked as a market researcher for national and international companies.

Joana Marques is sociologist and researcher, with a PhD in Sociology (University of Sao Paulo), a MA in Social and Solidarity Economy (ISCTE-IUL), and a BA in Sociology (University of Porto, with specialization in Development Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway). Professional career in research and action-research, with different focus of interest such as work and culture, solidarity economy, and mobilities. She was awarded the Horizon2020/ Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action "COLLECTITUDE - Building the collective at times of precarity". She has also participated as researcher in various national and international projects, such as applied research projects funded by Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission (EMEcs, YES, ISA, EUPostLab); academic research projects funded by FCT and CAPES (PROWORK; BooST - Boosting Starter Cycling Cities; Work precarisation, inequalities and dynamics of collective action; The impacts of tourism in Community Development in Africa); and external evaluation and applied research projects (in the fields of arts and social inclusion, Development and Global Citizenship, and education). She is author and co-author of various articles in the fields social and solidarity economy, labour studies, arts education, mobilities, development studies, and research methodologies. She is integrated researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte) and board member of the Portuguese Association of Political Economy (EcPol) and the Research & Development association A3S.

Sociologist. Associated Professor at the Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa | Escola de Sociologia e Políticas Públicas, Sociology Department. Researcher at CIES-Iscte, where co-coordinates the Research Group Inequalities, Work and Well-being. Director of Iscte Soft-Skills Lab (LCT-Iscte).  President of the Scientific Committee of the special competitions for access to Iscte, and is responsible for coordinating the organization of the reception of these students and supporting them in their academic and social integration. Throughout my research career I have participated in project teams and scientific consultancies, national and international, invested in themes such as social classes and social inequalities, the characterization of living conditions and value orientations of higher education students, aging societies, well-being, social change, and lifestyles, among others.   Currently, I am co-coordinating an international exchange project, aiming at the creation of a Transversal Skills Laboratory at the Amilcar Cabral University, in Guinea-Bissau; I am the coordinator of the evaluation study of the student residences (ERASMUS+); I am a member of the research team of the pedagogical innovation project "Flipping learning internationally in a post-pandemic era"  and a member of the research team of EUROSTUDENT (European Project on living conditions of students). I have published several national and international articles, book chapters, and books, and participated in communications at national and international conferences. My recent publications have appeared in International Studies of Sociology in Education, European Journal of Social Work, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, Sociologias (BR); Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas, Sociologia On-Line, and Análise Social. 

Graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, obtained a Master's degree in Business Law from ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, and holds a PhD in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Corunha (Spain) and from NOVA School of Law (Lisbon-Portugal). In addition to complementary training courses, he has participated in numerous National and International Congresses and Seminars, often as a lecturer. He has been teaching at several university institutions, with special emphasis on ISCTE - IUL – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, where he teaches several courses in the Master’s Degree in Business and Labor Law, as well as in the Master’s in Labor Sciences and Labor Relations and in the Master in Human Resources Development Policies. She was an invited Lecturer in postgraduate courses at the Lisbon and Porto Law Faculties. She has supervised numerous dissertations, in addition to participating, as Arguente, in several Masters juries. She is the author of several essays and articles published in books and national and international magazines on Employment Law topics.

Paulo Marques is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Economy, Iscte. He is researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte. He currently coordinates the Youth Employment Observatory and the SOLID-JOB research project (both financed by FCT). His PhD thesis was developed in the field of political economy and was entitled: "Young People and Labour Market Segmentation in Europe: An Institutionalist Perspective". He contributes to the field of Comparative Political Economy and studies topics such as labour market segmentation and labour market policies. His PhD thesis received two awards: António Simões Lopes Prize, awarded by the Portuguese Economics Association (Best PhD in 2016), and Manuel Lopes Prize, awarded by the Portuguese Employment Services (IEFP).  His master dissertation received two awards: Jacques Delors Prize, awarded by the European Information Centre Jacques Delors; and the Silva Leal Prize (honourable mention), awarded by the Portuguese State Secretariat for Social Security and ISCTE. An article he published together with Isabel Salavisa in the Socio-Economic Review received the António Dornelas Prize, awarded by the Portuguese Ministry of Labour. Paulo Marques has published scientific articles in journals such as the Socio-Economic Review, Comparative European Politics, and European Journal of Industrial Relations.

Reinhard Naumann holds a degree in political science. Since 1988, he does research in Portuguese employment policies and industrial relations. He is Portuguese correspondent of the European Centre of Expertise in the field of labour law, employment and labour market policies (ECE) and of the European Observatory of Working Life (EURWORK). From 1996 until 2021 he has been director of the representation of the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Portugal. Reinhard Naumann’s research activity has consisted of national contributions on Portugal in comparative studies such as the research project “Extending Labour Protection” (ILO, 2014-2015) and in political consultancy such as the Mutual Learning Programme under the European Employment Strategy (e.g. Lisbon 2017: Collective bargaining (Host Country Paper); Minimum wage, Cyprus 2019; Platform work, Berlin 2020) and the evaluation of European programmes (Globalisation Fund, Equality, Social Fund).  

Thais França is currently a visiting assistant professor of the Master in Labour Sciences and Industrial Relations (Iscte-IUL) and an integrated researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology Institute of the Lisbon University Institute (Cies-Iscte, Iscte-IUL). Currently she coordinates the project “SAGE19: Scientific and Academic Gender (in) equality during Covid19” funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology on the impact of the Covid19 pandemic on female scholar’s career. She was was granted an EEAgrants for her project 'Mapping out: Portugal on the European anti-immigrant movements map' in partnership with PRIO, Norway. Her research expertise and interests focus on migration, mobilities, gender, social inequalities and post-colonial studies. She earned my PhD degree in Sociology in the Labor Relations, Social Inequalities and Unionism program at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra in 2012. Her research was funded by the FCT and its main objective was to analyse the employment insertion of Brazilian women in Portugal. Since then, the topics of social inequality, immigration and gender have become the tripod of her studies. In 2013, at CIES, ISCTE-IUL, she started her career as an independent researcher under the FCT post-doctoral scheme coordinating the project Scientific Mobility to and from Portugal: Production and Circulation of Knowledge in Highly-Skilled Immigration (2012-2018). The project aimed, on the one hand, to analyse international academic and scientific mobility to Portugal as a qualified immigration modality and, on the other, to reflect on how social and gender inequalities reproduce in this phenomenon. Along these years she also took part in different projects and networks, namely GOVDIV Multilevel governance of cultural diversity in a comparative perspective: EU-Latin America (IRSES, Marie Curie Action, FP7-SP3- PEOPLE); A Global Survey on "Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Life of Higher Education Students (University of Ljubljana); the international research clusters IMISCOE : Education and Social Inequality and RIMAC - Red sobre Internacionalización y Movilidades Académicas y Científicas (RIMAC) /Programa de redes temáticas del CONACYT- México. She was the Co-Chair of the Latin America Studies Association (LASA) Gender Section (2018-2020). Additionally, she was a visiting researcher in many institutions in different countries: Gender and Feminist Department, Berkeley University (USA), Department of Sociology University of Warwick (UK), CONICET (Argentina), boosting her career internationalization. The outputs of her work have been presented in in several academic conferences and published in international journals and book chapters. She organized three edited volumes and numerous scientific meetings. Currenlty, she is a member of the European Commission  expert group on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender equality in EU R&I (2022-2023)