Beatriz Padilla
Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho
Beatriz Padilla holds a PhD and a Masters in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; a Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin, United States, and a Licenciatura (BA) in Public Administration and Political Sciences from the University of Cuyo, Argentina.
She was an Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho, and Deputy Director of the Research Centre on Social Sciences (CICS). Previous to this Beatriz was a senior research fellow at the Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia at the University Institute of Lisbon where she coordinated the Comparative and Transnational Research Line. She is also an invited Professor at the University Institute of Lisbon in the Public Policy Doctoral Programme.
Beatriz is involved in several research projects and international research networks. She is the coordinator of GOVDIV, IRSES-Marie Curie Consortium funded by the 7th Framework Programme. She is the Portuguese PI of UPWEB, a Norface funded project. Previosuly, she was Principal Investigator of 'Health citizenship and inequalities in child-maternal health services' and of 'Conviviality and superdiverstiy in Lisbon and Granada' funded by National Science Foundation.
Her main research interests are migrations, public policies, globalization, health and welfare, social movements, global inequalities in gender, race and ethnicity. She has published widely in several languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French, in international and national scientific journals. She supervises several postdoctoral fellows as well as doctoral and master students, Marie-Curie Fellow, mainly on issues related to migrations, gender and social movements.
Beatriz is currently a Principal Researcher at CIES-IUL Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL). Her most recent publications include an article in Ethnic and Racial Studieson "Superdiversity and Conviviality: Exploring frameworks for doing ethnography in Southern European intercultural cities" co-authored with Joana Azevedo and Antonia Olmos-Alcaraz, and in Identitieson Can stigma become a resource? The mobilization of aesthetic-corporal capital by female immigrant entrepreneurs from Brazil. Also several articles in Spanish and Portuguese on citizenship, gender and good practices on health and migration, among others. She coordinated the most recent issue of the Anuario de Americanistas Europeosand a leading article on Gender and Migration: New reconfigations and women's protagonism of Latin American women. An introduction'.