CES is an Associated Laboratory Promoting innovative epistemologies and methodologies towards an “ecology of knowledges”

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CES is an Associated Laboratory Promoting innovative epistemologies and methodologies towards an “ecology of knowledges”
Centro de Estudos Sociais- CES
Chiara Carrozza e Pedro Pereira Leite

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Strategic Programme 2015-2020
Research focused the promotion of inclusive, innovative and reflexive societies guided by three orientations:
•social cohesion under conditions of growing inequalities and repression of cultural diversity;
•articulation between representative and participatory democracy and corresponding innovations in democratic rules;
•centrality of reenergized human rights for social groups subject to oppression, discrimination and exclusion.

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PostDoc contribution at CES

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PostDoc contribution at CES
•79 post-doctoral researchers (2013) - 55 with post-doctoral grants (70%) - 41 international (52%)
•Participation in international networks
•Integration in funded projects (national and international)
•Increasing top-level scientific publications
•FCT Exploratory projects (2)
•Contribution to doctoral training
•Engagement in outreach activities - O ces vai à escola - Universidade de Verão - Partecipatory Budgeting - Popular University of Social Movements

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Some relevant research areas
•Human rights;
•Peace Studies and Conflits Resolution;
•Mutualism and new economies;
•Energy and Economic Transition;
•History, memory, diasporas and post- colonialisms;
•Political ecology;
•Urban studies and participatory governance;
•Gender and minorities inclusion;
•Migration Studies;

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The Importance of Being Digital A Project About Digital Academic Practices And Research Methods
•FCT Exploratory Project (2014-2015)
•The project focuses on the transformation that “being digital” entails for research practices and scholarship in general. It has two main aims: a) understanding how digital technologies are changing the academic profession (by investigating both the actual transformation of research practices and the researchers’ perceptions associated with the use of digital media in their work) and b) exploring the contributions of digital methods in the analysis of scale and trajectory of such changes.
•Research team: multidisciplinary, coming from the Science and Technology Studies, Anthropology, Communication and New Media.
•Methodologies: interviews and participant observation
•Workshops: Digital Scholarship Workshop (30 participants) and Oficina Digital Methods (15 participants)
•Network: MediaLab Paris, Open University (UK)
•Contacts: Dr. Chiara Carrozza (PI) chiaracarrozza@ces.uc.pt http://bedigital.hypotheses.org/

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Global Heritages
–FCT Grant: 2012-2014 (SHRH/BPD/76601/2011)
•Aims to build a network on local cognizance by the work on collective memory has a tool for action and build social innovation;
•In 4 communities linked by common heritage (Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Mozambike);
•Methodologies – Biographical Research, Sociodrama
– Work shops on collective memory : (Mapping Memories, Space Poetic, Riso, Biographical Narratives, Memory Tree);
–Networks: Slave Route Unesco Projet, Museion, Memories Tree (VIDA ONG, Afrodigital Museum (Portugal Station);
–Publications: Global Heritages-Local Memories, Informal Museology studies, Resarch Blog on Hypotheses ;
–Contacts : pedropereiraleite@ces.uc.pt; http://globalherit.hypotheses.org;