As part of the 2025 PhD Scholarship Call, promoted by the Foundation for Science and Technology, CIES awarded eight new PhD research scholarships.
PhD studentships aim at financing research activities that lead to obtaining the academic degree of doctor.

SOCIOLOGY
Ana Rita Medeiros
Time, is it mine? Temporal Agency in everyday life and over the Life Course: A cross-national study
Helena Schimitz
Civil Resistance and Migrant Rights: Strategies of Social Movements in Portugal in the Face of the Rise of Conservatism and the Far Right
Noa Miguel Simões
Histórias de vida (neuro)divergentes: uma abordagem sociológica sobre normalidade e controlo social 
Sandra Pinto Pinheiro
COMMUNICATION
Ana Paula Folha
O papel do ativismo na comunicação da causa climática em Portugal.
Yuzhe Zhu
Ativismo climático juvenil online: comparação da construção de sentimento de “eco-celebridades” e de ativistas populares
POLICIES OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Maria da Conceição Gonçalves
For an analysis of public education policies based on external school evaluations
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Md Habibur Rahman
Protection 2 Integration (P2I): Portuguese Policy Response for the Integration of Ukrainian Refugees into the Labor Market