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Sónia Bernardo Correia holds a bachelor’s degree in management (ISEG), a postgraduate qualification in Heritage and Cultural Projects, and an MA and PhD in Sociology (Iscte). She began her career in management consultancy and continues to collaborate in the management of a design agency. She is an Associate Researcher at CIES-Iscte and has participated as a researcher in several national and European-funded projects. Her research interests focus on gender inequalities, artistic careers, biographical research and the sociology of art, with particular attention to mechanisms of visibility and recognition in cultural fields. Building on previous project experience, she has also developed research interests in youth and childhood, especially around research ethics, data privacy and public policies affecting these groups. Her PhD thesis titled "Centers and Peripheries of Gender: Professional Trajectories of Portuguese Women Visual Artists", documented mechanisms of invisibility affecting women artists in Portugal and linked gendered patterns of recognition to the institutional arrangements and gatekeeping processes that shape the field.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sónia Alexandra Bernardo Correia

Citation names

  • Bernardo Correia, Sónia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
051B-6010-E874
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1397-0255
Google Scholar ID
DzQbNm4AAAAJ
Researcher Id
JKO-2388-2023
Scopus Author Id
57783748200

Email addresses

  • sonia_alexandra_correia@iscte-iul.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
German Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2020 - 2025/09/25
Concluded
Sociology (Doutoramento)
Major in Gender
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"Centres and Peripheries of Gender: Professional Trajectories of Portuguese Visual Artists" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Approved unanimously with distinction
2015/09/15 - 2017/01/01
Concluded
Sociology (Mestrado)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"Gender relations in the context of creative work – social representations and practices" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
17
2008/09/13 - 2009/06/30
Concluded
Heritage and Cultural Projects (Pós-Graduação)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
16
1996/09/01 - 2001/06/30
Concluded
Management (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2018/01/01 - Current Researcher (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/01/01 - 2020/01/01 Research Assistant (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2025/10 - Current Invited Assistant (University Teacher) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019/01/01 - Current Project Manager Transístor - Associação Cultural, Portugal
Transístor - Associação Cultural, Portugal
2010/01/01 - Current Financial Management Plugit, Portugal
2018/01/01 - 2021 Administrative Manager IDEA - INTERNATIONAL DRAMA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Portugal
2010/01/01 - 2018/01/01 Project Manager Chapitô, Portugal
2005/01/01 - 2010/01/01 Consultant Primavera Business Solutions, Portugal
2001/01/01 - 2005/01/01 Consultant ParaRede, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2025/10/15 - Current PilotSTRATEGY
Post-doc
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Comissão Europeia
Ongoing
2022/10/01 - 2026/09/30 Growing Up in Digital Europe Preparation Phase
HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-02
Researcher
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA, Italy

INSTITUT DRUSTVENIH ZNANOSTI IVO PILAR, Croatia

HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO (UH), Finland

INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ETUDES DEMOGRAPHIQUES, France

DEUTSCHES JUGENDINSTITUT EV, Germany

BUNDESINSTITUT FUR BEVOLKERUNGSFORSCHUNG, Germany

UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA, Spain

STICHTING CENTERDATA, Netherlands

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN, Belgium

Tallinn University , Estonia

Debreceni Egyetem , Hungary

DAUGAVPILS UNIVERSITATE, Latvia

UNIVERSITA TA MALTA, Malta

LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC RESEARCH, Luxembourg

NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU, Norway

UNIVERZITA SV. CYRILA A METODA V TRNAVE, Slovakia

ZNANSTVENO-RAZISKOVALNO SREDISCE KOPER, Slovenia

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN, Ireland

PANTEIO PANEPISTIMIO KOINONIKON KAIPOLITIKON EPISTIMON, Greece

UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN , Belgium
Comissão Europeia
Ongoing
2022/09/01 - 2025/03/31 Coordinate - COhort cOmmunity Research and Development Infrastructure Network for Access Throughout Europe
101008589
Researcher
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal

Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, Ireland

CESSDA ERIC, Norway

UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA, Spain

INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ETUDES DEMOGRAPHIQUES, France

University of Essex, United Kingdom

ZNANSTVENO-RAZISKOVALNO SREDISCE KOPER, Slovenia

EUROPAISCHES ZENTRUM FUR WOHLFAHRTSPOLITIK UND SOZIALFORSCHUNG, Austria

HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO, Philippines

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA, Italy

STICHTING CENTERDATA, Netherlands

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, United Kingdom

KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW, Netherlands

GESIS-LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN EV, Germany

IPSOS GMBH, Germany

KANTAR UK LTD, United Kingdom

CAPSTAN SA, Belgium

INSTITUT DRUSTVENIH ZNANOSTI IVO PILAR, Croatia
Comissão Europeia
Concluded
2021/01/01 - 2022/06/30 Biographical echoes: triangulation in the study of Life histories (Ecos biográficos: triangulação no estudo dos percursos de vida)
PTDC/SOC-SOC/29117/2017
Technical development
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal
FCT
Concluded
2021/04/05 - 2021/07/31 Maia City Council Municipal Youth Plan - Plano Municipal de Juventude da Câmara Municipal da Maia
.
Researcher
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal
Concluded
2018/06/11 - 2019/12/31 European Cohort Development Project
GA 777449
Researcher
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal

Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Croatia

Tallinn University , Estonia

University of Bremen, Germany

Agencia Catalana de la Juventud, Spain

Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences , Greece

Debreceni Egyetem , Hungary

University of Essex, United Kingdom

University of SS Cyril and Methodius, Slovakia

Daugavpils University , Latvia

JYVASKYLAN YLIOPISTO, Finland

Alma Mater Studiorum, Italy

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, United Kingdom

Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wet, United Kingdom

EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY EUROPEAN RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE CONSORTIUM, United Kingdom
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Caetano, A.; Anabela da Conceição Pereira; Correia, S.B.; Nico, Magda. De viva voz: ecos biográficos da sociedade portuguesa. Lisboa, Portugal: Tinta-da-China. 2023.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Caetano, A.; Nico, Magda; Anabela da Conceição Pereira; Correia, S.B.. "Touching from a distance: gaining intimacy with research participants during the COVID-19 pandemic". In Biographical Research and New Social Architectures - Challenges and Opportunities for Creative Applications across Europe. Bristol, United Kingdom: Policy Press, 2024.
    Published
  2. Caetano, A.; Nico, Magda; Anabela da Conceição Pereira; Correia, S.B.; Goodwin J.; John Goodwin. "A Year in the Life: Living Portraits of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Portugal". In Biographical Perspectives on Lives Lived During Covid-19. Global Narratives and International Methodological Innovations. --, United Kingdom: Springer, 2024.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-54442-2_2
Journal article
  1. Correia, S. B.; Caetano, A.. "What is left unsaid: Omissions in biographical narratives". Current Sociology 72 7 (2024): 1396-1413. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00113921231200253.
    Published • 10.1177/00113921231200253
  2. Correia, S. B.. "Centers and peripheries of gender professional trajectories of Portuguese visual artists". European Sociologist 49 (2023): https://www.europeansociology.org/european-sociologist/issue/49/doing-sociology/d7c268b6-8e1b-4f6b-b5ff-754cfb6e6b99.
    Published
  3. Correia, S. B.. "The visible third: the invisibility of women artists in the field of Portuguese visual arts (2012–2019)". Análise Social 57 242 (2022): 110-138. http://analisesocial.ics.ul.pt/.
    Published • 10.31447/as00032573.2022242.05
Report
  1. Caetano, A.; Nico, Magda; Anabela da Conceição Pereira; Correia, S.B.; Abrantes, P.. 2022. Final report of the project “Biographical echoes: triangulation in the study of life courses”.
  2. Nico, Magda; Correia, S.B.. 2021. Young Lives in Maia.
  3. Caetano, A.; Nico, Magda; Anabela da Conceição Pereira; Correia, S.B.; Abrantes, P.. 2021. Progress report (3rd year) of the project “Biographical echoes: triangulation in the study of life courses”.
  4. Nico, Magda; Correia, S.B.; Alves, Nuno de Almeida. 2020. WP7 Final Report and Portuguese ECDP Team.
  5. Correia, S.B.; Nico, Magda; Nuno de Almeida Alves. 2019. Eurocohort Ethics Protocol.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Centers and Peripheries of Gender - Professional trajectories of Portuguese visual artists". PhD, ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 2025. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/35510.
  2. "Gender relations in the context of creative work – social representations and practices". Master, 2017.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/11/17 Representation of women in the visual arts Seminar on Gender Sociology (UC Bachelor's Degree in Sociology)
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2025/10/24 Gender and inequality in the arts in Portugal (2009–2023) II International Conference Women, Worlds of Work and Citizenship – Different Views, Other Perspectives
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2025/07/10 Between the impossibilities of the past and a new gender order - professional trajectories of Portuguese visual artists 13th Portuguese Sociology Congress
Universidade dos Açores (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2025/03/29 Participation of women in the field of Portuguese visual arts The invisibility of women in art throughout the centuries
Ary dos Santos Municipal Library (Sacavém, Portugal)
2024/09/27 Professional Trajectories of Portuguese Women Visual Artists Woman XXI - 3rd International Conference
(Porto, Portugal)
2024/08/28 Professional Trajectories of Portuguese Women Visual Artists 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association - Tension, Trust and Transformation
Universidade de Letras do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/10/20 Writing about Lives, Telling Stories: process and challenges Writing about Lives, Telling Stories: process and challenges
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/04/06 Centres and peripheries of gender: career paths of Portuguese visual artists 12th Portuguese Sociology Congress: “Polarised societies? Challenges for Sociology”
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/04/05 The lives of others: dissonances between auto- and hetero-biographical narratives 12th Portuguese Sociology Congress: “Polarised societies? Challenges for Sociology”
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/09/16 Frames of life: the possible, the crafted and the imagined The Biographical Echoes Final Conference
2022/09/16 Life as they see it: mismatches between auto and hetero-biographical narratives The Biographical Echoes Final Conference
CIES-IScte (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/09/02 The Visible Third 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association: "Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures"
(Barcelona (online), Spain)
2021/09/01 Back to basics? Photographic portraits of domestic confinement during the Covid-19 pandemic 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association: "Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures"
(Barcelona, Spain)
2021/09/01 What is left unsaid: omission in biographical narratives 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association: "Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures"
2021/07/06 The weight of the unsaid: omissions in biographical accounts The Biographical Echoes Conference: 2nd Edition
CIES-Iscte (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/06/28 The Visible Third 23rd International Conference on Sociology of Gender and Society
CSGS 2021 (London, United Kingdom)
2021/03/31 Back to basics? Photographic portraits of domestic confinement during the Covid-19 pandemic 11th Portuguese Sociology Congress: “Identities in turmoil: differences, belonging and populism in a turbulent world”
ESPP/ISCTE-IUL e ICS-UL (online, Portugal)
2021/03/31 Studying the echoes of a life: reflections on ethical issues XI Portuguese Sociology Congress: “Identities in turmoil: differences, belonging and populism in a turbulent world”
ESPP/ISCTE-IUL e ICS-UL (online, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2025/10/02 - 2025/10/02 GUIDE Project presentation — Data for Children and Youth in Europe (workshop with relevant stakeholders) (2025/10/02 - 2025/10/02)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/04/06 - 2023/04/06 Book presentation: Ana Caetano, Anabela Pereira, Sónia Correia and Magda Nico (2023), De viva voz: ecos biográficos da sociedade portuguesa, Lisbon, Tinta-da-china. Presented by Rosalina Pisco Costa, XII Portuguese Sociology Congress, Coimbra (2023/04/06 - 2023/04/06)
Conference (Co-organisor)
XII Portuguese Sociology Congress, Portugal
2023/02/09 - 2023/02/09 Book launch: Ana Caetano, Anabela Pereira, Sónia Correia and Magda Nico (2023), De viva voz: ecos biográficos da sociedade portuguesa, Lisbon, Tinta-da-china. Presented by Joana Craveiro, Livraria Martins bookshop, Lisbon (2023/02/09 - 2023/02/09)
Other (Co-organisor)
2022/09/16 - 2022/09/16 The Biographical Echoes Final Conference (2022/09/16 - 2022/09/16)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
2021/07/06 - 2021/07/06 The Biographical Echoes Conference: 2nd Edition - "Nothingness, Regrets and Omissions in Biographies" (2021/07/06 - 2021/07/06)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024/01/01 - Current Portuguese Sociology Association member
2023/01/01 - Current European Sociological Association
Distinctions

Award

2025 CIES - ISCTE Scientific Award 2024 (1st Quartile article)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2017 ISCTE-IUL - Academic Excellence Award (Master's Degree in Sociology)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Other distinction

2025 Shortlist of "Annual SAGE Current Sociology Best Paper Prize’s"
2025 Sociologist of the Month - April 2025 (with Ana Caetano)
International Sociological Association, Spain