Biography

MARTA ARAÚJO (PhD, University of London, Institute of Education, School Educational Foundations and Policy Studies, 2003) is Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES). Her research addresses two complimentary lines of enquiry: i) public policy, political discourse, and ethno-racial discrimination; ii) history education and knowledge production, focusing on the teaching and the public history of (anti-)colonialism and enslavement. Marta is Vice-President of the Scientific Board at CES, where she lectures at doctoral level ('Democracy in the 21st Century', 'Human Rights in Contemporary Societies'). She was Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN) at the University of Helsinki. Currently in the Editorial Board of publications in the sociology of 'race' and education in Brazil, Britain, Portugal and the United States, she has published internationally in reputed peer-reviewed journals (e.g. British Journal of Sociology of Education, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Patterns of Prejudice, and 'Race', Ethnicity and Education). She has acted as scientific advisor on ethno-racial equality and participated in selected expert meetings at national and international level. She has also been actively engaged in outreach activities.