Poverty and Social Exclusion; Inequalities; Human Rights and Basic Needs; Contemporary Social Work Theory and Practice; Society, Technology and Impacts in Social Life;Social Work and Social Policy; Social Work Research; Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Social Inclusion.

Politics and Citizenship

Maria Inês Amaro holds a PhD in Social Work from the Portuguese Catholic University; a Master’s degree in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies from ISCTE; and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from the Lisbon Higher Institute of Social Work. She is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at ISCTE-IUL and a research fellow at CIES. She teaches on the Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD programmes in Social Work, the postgraduate programme in Social Work in Health, and the Master’s programme in Disability Studies and Human Rights. Her research interests lie in the areas of social work theory and practice, society, crises and public policy, and social exclusion and poverty. She is a consultant and supervisor in the fields of social planning and evaluation, social intervention and support, and public policies on children and young people. She is the author of books, book chapters and ... [more info]