Carla Malafaia

Biography

Carla Malafaia is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto. She has developed the Portuguese subproject of the H2020 ERC-funded project "ImagiDem - Imagi(ni)ng Democracy: European youth becoming citizens by visual participation". She is the local coordinator of the University of Porto team in the JustFutures Project - "Climate Futures and Just Transformations: Young People's Political Narratives and Imaginaries" (FCT) and she was WP leader in the ClimActiC Project - "CidadaniaPeloClima: Creating Bridges between Citizenship and Science for Climate Adaptation" (North2020). Additionally, she is responsible for the external evaluation of the Project "Jovens Urgentes: Aqui e Agora!" [Urgent Youth: Here and Now!] (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian), carried out by CIIE-UP. Carla has been invited to be Referee of the ERC Starting Grants and she has experience as editorial member of scientific Journals and as Guest-Editor of special issues. She holds a European PhD in Education Sciences and has been actively involved in research since 2008, in more than 10 national (FCT-funded) and large-scale international projects (FP7 and Horizon 2020, funded by the European Commission) on citizenship education and youth civic and political participation. Over the years, Carla has adopted a diversity of research methods, ranging from quantitative methods to ethnography, encompassing participatory and visual methods. She is co-author of four books and has authored more than 40 chapters and articles, including as first author in high-ranked journals, such as Social Movement Studies, YOUNG, Ethnography & Education, Current Sociology, Frontiers in Psychology, The Qualitative Report and the Journal of Social Sciences Education. Carla was a visiting scholar at the Urban Democracy Lab (New York University) in 2015 and did an internship at the Social Science Department of Helsinki University, in 2016. Carla has been supervising MA and Ph.D. students (ongoing and completed in both cases) and has taught at the graduate level at Escola Superior de Educação do Porto, and at postgraduate level at the Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto. Carla is a member of the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE-UP) and the Centre for Sociology of Democracy (Helsinki, Finland); also, she is member of the Portuguese Society of Education Sciences (SPCE) and co-representative of the CIIE's scientific strategic area "Engagement of Vulnerable Young People in Education and Training". Carla is Editor-in-Chief of the 'European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology' and her research is related to the broader fields of political education, political sociology, youth studies, and social movements.