Sílvia Ferreira

Contacts

smdf@fe.uc.pt

Biography

Sílvia Ferreira is assistant professor in Sociology at the Faculty of Economics of Coimbra University, researcher at the Centre for Social Studies and at the Center for Cooperative and Social Economy Studies of the Faculty of Economics. She lectures at undergraduate and at graduate levels in the Sociology degree, master in Sociology, master in Society, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and in the Sociology PhD Programme. She is co-coordinator of the master in Society, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University (UK). She has been involved in research on social security reform, third sector and social policy, gender equality in third sector organisations, social entrepreneurship and social innovation in the social and solidarity economy, social enterprises, volunteering and local governance through state/third sector partnerships. Her basic interest has been the evolving nature of the welfare state and of the welfare mixes, more recently, from a sociological standpoint based on complex social systems approaches. Her extension work focuses the relation between the university and society, particularly the third sector/social economy.

ORCID

Projetos

Atlantic-Social-Lab

Cooperação Atlântica para a promoção da inovação social

IN SITU

Place-based innovation of cultural and creative industries in non-urban areas

URBiNAT

Healthy corridors as drivers of social housing neighbourhoods for the cocreation of social,environmental and marketable NBS

EmployALL

A crise do emprego e o Estado Social em Portugal: deter a produção de vulnerabilidades sociais e de desigualdades

Latest Publications

Article in Scientific journal

Ferreira, Sílvia; Fidalgo, Pedro; Abreu, Paula (2022), "Social enterprises in culture and the arts: institutional trajectories of hybridisation in the Portuguese changing cultural mix", International Journal of Cultural Policy, 1-16

Book

Ferreira, Sílvia (orgs.) (2021), Trajetórias Institucionais e Modelos de Empresa Social em Portugal. Coimbra: Centro de Estudos Sociais

Article in Scientific journal

Pinto, Hugo; Ferreira, Sílvia; Guerreiro, Jorge André (2021), "The emergence of a Social Innovation Ecosystem in Portugal: An exploratory approach based on the perspective of strategic stakeholders", European Public & Social Innovation Review, 6, 2, 15-34