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prisons studies; crime and ethnicity; social inequalities & intersectional approach; media
United Kingdom

Biography

Silvia Gomes is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick (UK). Before this, she was a lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University (2020-2022), a researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences, at the University of Minho (2019-2020), a postdoctoral research scholar at the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, at Florida State University (2018-20), and an invited Assistant Professor in Criminology at the University Institute of Maia, Portugal (2012-2019). She holds a PhD in Sociology (2013), with a thesis focusing on crime, ethnicities, and social inequalities. She is co-coordinating the Thematic Section on Sociology of Law and Justice of the Portuguese Sociological Association and is a member of the Working Groups on Immigration, Crime and Citizenship and Gender, Crime, and Justice, both of the European Society of Criminology. Author of several books, book chapters, and papers in scientific journals, her main areas of research are focused on crime and media, prison studies, crime, ethnicity and gender, intersectional approaches, and social inequalities and violence. More recently she has also been focused on topics such as life-course criminology, prison re-entry, recidivism, and criminal desistance.

Activities

Employment (13)

University of Warwick: Coventry, Warwickshire, GB

2024-12-01 to present | Associate Professor (Sociology)
Employment
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Gomes, Sílvia

University of Minho: Braga, PT

2019-06 to present | Researcher (Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Soiais)
Employment
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Gomes, Sílvia

University of Wawick: Coventry, GB

2023-01-01 to 2024-11-30 | Assistant Professor (Sociology)
Employment
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Gomes, Sílvia

Nottingham Trent University: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, GB

2020-12-01 to 2022-12-31 | Lecturer (School of Social Sciences)
Employment
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Gomes, Sílvia

Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice: Tallahassee, FL, US

2018-08 to 2020-08 | Postdoctoral Associate
Employment
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Gomes, Sílvia

Instituto Universitário da Maia: Castelo da Maia, Porto, PT

2015-09-18 to 2018-02-10 | Invited Assistant Professor (Ciências Sociais e do Comportamento)
Employment
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Gomes, Sílvia

Universidade da Coruña: A Coruna, Galicia, ES

2017-04 to 2017-04 | Professora visitante (Direito)
Employment
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Gomes, Sílvia

Universiteit van Amsterdam: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

2015-07-01 to 2015-07-31 | Visiting scholar (Political Sciences)
Employment
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Gomes, Sílvia

Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice: Tallahassee, FL, US

2015-04-01 to 2015-06-30 | Short-term scholar (Short-term scholar)
Employment
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Gomes, Sílvia

Instituto Superior da Maia: Maia, PT

2013-09 to 2014-02 | Assistant Professor (Ciências Sociais e do Comportamento)
Employment
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Gomes, Sílvia

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: Lisboa, Lisboa, PT

2009-05-01 to 2013-04-30 | Doctoral Grant Holder (Sociologia)
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Gomes, Sílvia

Instituto Superior da Maia : Maia, PT

2012-09 to 2013-02 | Trainee Professor (Ciências Sociais e do Comportamento)
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Gomes, Sílvia

Centro de Investigação em Ciências Sociais: Braga, PT

2008-06 to 2009-04 | Scientific management
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Gomes, Sílvia

Education and qualifications (4)

Advance HE: York, GB

2021-04 to 2022-03 | Fellowship
Qualification
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Gomes, Sílvia

Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade do Minho: Braga, PT

2009-05 to 2013-07 | PhD (Sociologia)
Education
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Gomes, Sílvia

University of California Berkeley: Berkeley, CA, US

2011-10 to 2011-12 | Visiting Student Researcher (Sociology)
Education
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Gomes, Sílvia

Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade do Minho: Braga, PT

2003-09 to 2008-05 | Degree (Sociologia)
Education
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Gomes, Sílvia

Professional activities (3)

British Society of Criminology: London, GB

2022 to present
Membership
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Gomes, Sílvia

European Society of Criminology: Lausanne, CH

2011 to present
Membership
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Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia: Lisboa, Lisboa, PT

2008 to present
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Funding (11)

The impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Vulnerable Women in Nottinghamshire: A PAR Approach

2021 to 2021 | Contract
Nottingham Trent University (Nottingham, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER:

QR

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Inclusive Courts/ Igualdade e diferença cultural na prática judicial portuguesa: Desafios e oportunidades na edificação de uma sociedade inclusiva Inclusive Courts - Equality and cultural difference in Portuguese judicial practice: Challenges and opportunities in building an inclusive society

2018-10-01 to 2022-09-30 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PTDC/DIR-OUT/28229/2017

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

INCLUSIVE COURTS Igualdade e diferença cultural na prática judicial portuguesa. Desafios e oportunidades na edificação de uma sociedade inclusiva

2018 to 2021 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

28229

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

(In)Form for Equality and Citizenship II

2016 to 2016 | Contract
Alto Comissariado para as Migrações (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

FAPE2016-0011

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Reentry, Recidivism and Desistance: a longitudinal study with ex- and re- prisoners

2015-02 to 2021-01 | Grant
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

SFRH/BPD/102758/2014

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Gomes, Sílvia
grade
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(In)Form for Equality and Citizenship

2015 to 2015 | Contract
Alto Comissariado para as Migrações (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

FAPE2015-0003

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Training, acting and disseminating

2015 to 2015 | Contract
Instituto Universitário da Maia (Castelo da Maia, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

FEINPT-1A5-0015

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Diagnóstico Local de Segurança no Concelho da Maia

2014 to 2015 | Contract
Instituto Universitário da Maia (Castelo da Maia, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

U

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Criminal or Criminalized: Moral panic over Roma and immigrant individuals in the Portuguese press

2013-09 to 2013-09 | Grant
Fundação Luso-Americana (Lisboa, PT)
Source: Self-asserted source
Gomes, Sílvia

Projecto Estratégico - UI 710 - 2011-2012

2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PEst-OE/SADG/UI0710/2011

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Criminalidade, Exclusão Social e Racismo: um estudo comparativo entre portugueses, portugueses-ciganos e imigrantes dos PALOP e do Leste Europeu

2009-05 to 2013-04 | Grant
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (Lisboa, PT)
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CIÊNCIAVITAE
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Peer review (18 reviews for 8 publications/grants)

Review activity for American journal of criminal justice. (1)
Review activity for Criminology & criminal justice (1)
Review activity for European journal of criminology. (1)
Review activity for Journal of drug issues (4)
Review activity for Journal of forensic psychology research and practice. (2)
Review activity for Race and justice : (1)
Review activity for Social sciences. (3)
Review activity for Women & criminal justice. (5)