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Mafalda Esteves
Research Fields
Gender Studies, Childhood and Youth, Social movements and youth participation, health and community action; hate-speech, emotions and youth
Research Group
Health For All
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Mafalda Esteves is a social psychologist and junior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra since 2015, currently co-coordinator at the national level of the European project Colourful Childhood: Empowering LGBTIQ children in vulnerable contexts to combat gender-based violence across Europe (2022-2024). She has been a member of European projects such as "INTIMATE: Citizenship, Care and Choice: The Micropolitics of Intimacy in Southern Europe" (2014-2019) (ERC St Grant) and "Diversity and Childhood - Changing social attitudes towards gender diversity in children across Europe" (2019-2021). She is also a PhD student in Psychology at CIS/ISCTE-IUL where she is developing a thesis entitled "Invisible sexualities: intimate citizenship and psychosocial well-being in bisexuality". Master in Psychosocial Investigation and Intervention at the Universitat de Barcelona with a dissertation on Community Action and individual Empowerment from. In Barcelona she developed scientific and professional work in the field of Social and ... [more info]
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