Sheila Holz (D61E-DB10-1E7C)

Curriculum Vitae

Sheila Holz

Sheila Holz is the executive coordinator of the PHOENIX (The rise of citizens' voices for a Greener Europe) project, funded under the H2020 program of the European Commission, running from 2022 to 2025. PHOENIX is an iterative learning process for different actors in different countries, whose overarching objective is to increase the transformative potential of democratic innovations under the European Green Deal, addressing farm-to-fork, circular economy, energy transition, and healthy soil policy areas. During her research career, she has been involved in projects related to citizen participation, the co-creation of nature-based solutions, issues related to agriculture and environmental risk assessment of pesticides, and fundamental rights such as housing. She has a degree in Law (2000), a Master's degree (2009) in Territorial Planning - Urbanism from the University of Aveiro (Portugal), and a PhD (2015) in "Democracy in the 21st Century" from the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (Portugal), with a doctoral scholarship funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She was a visiting student at the Università Degli Studi di Firenze, Italy (2011). Her doctoral thesis analyzed the importance of the law to promote practices of citizen participation in the elaboration of urban planning instruments, in Portugal and Italy. His area of research is public participation, democratic innovations, and issues related to agriculture, such as the farm-to-fork system promoted by the European Commission. Her current research interests are democracy strengthening; democratic innovations; green transition; agroecology; the right to housing and the right to the city.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Sheila Holz

Citation names

Holz, Sheila

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: D61E-DB10-1E7C
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5988-239X

Email addresses

sheilaholz@ces.uc.pt (Professional)
sheila.holz@gmail.com (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Law
Social Sciences - Political Sciences
Social Sciences - Political Sciences - Public Administration
Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Environmental Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)
Italian	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2009/10 - 2015/12/15 Concluded	Democracy in the 21st Century (Doutoramento) Major in Sem especialidade Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal "(The force of the law and the force of the will: the importance of the law in the creation of participatory practices to develop urban planning instruments at the local level, both in Portugal and Italy)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved with prise and distintiction
2006/11/06 - 2009/07/14 Concluded	Planeamento do Território e Ordenamento da Cidade (“Territory Planning and Town Planning”) (Mestrado) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Sociais Políticas e do Território, Portugal "Propriedade e moradia na regularização fundiária: Brasil e Portugal (Property and housing in land regularization: Brazil and Portugal)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2006/09/11 - 2007/11/20 Concluded	Specialist in Urban Law (Diploma de especialização) Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Brazil	A (maximum)
2004/12/04 Concluded	Excellence in Constitutional Law (Especialização pós-bacharelato) Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina, Brazil
2004/06/19 Concluded	Specialist in Theory of Legal Argumentation (Diploma de especialização) Universitat d'Alacant, Spain
1996/02/02 - 2001/02/03 Concluded	Bachelor Degree in Law (Bacharelato) Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	16,38

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/02/01 - Current	Coordinating Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2020/03/01 - 2022/03/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
	Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
2018/06/01 - 2019/11/30	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2017/09/10 - 2018/05/31	Researcher (Research)	Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
	Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
2016/04/01 - 2016/12/31	Research Assistant (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2002/02/01 - 2006/09/01	Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina, Brazil
	Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina, Brazil

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022/02/01 - Current	PHOENIX - The Rise of Citizens' Voice for a Greener Europe 101037328 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2022/02 - Current	PHOENIX -The Rise of Citizens Voices for a Greener Europe H2020-LC-GD-2020-4	European Commission Ongoing
2020/01/01 - Current	PARTICIPEDIA 895-2015-1007 Other The University of British Columbia, Canada	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Ongoing
2019/12/01 - Current	Project PLUS (Platform Labour in Urban Spaces: Fairness, Welfare, Development) 822638 Other Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2023/06/01 - 2026/05/31	Nets4Dem 101112280	European Commission Ongoing
2020/11/01 - 2022/10/31	CITY WITHOUT UNIVERSITY / UNIVERSITY WITHOUT CITY: living in a university city after the COVID19 emergency BIRD202750/2020 Invited Scientist Fellow Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	Ongoing
2018/06/01 - 2019/11/30	URBiNAT, Healthy corridors as drivers of social housing neighbourhoods for the co-creation of social, environmental and marketable NBS 776783 Post-doc Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2016/05/01 - 2016/12/31	H2020 EMPATIA - Enabling Multichannel PArticipation Through ICT Adaptations”, coordenated by Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra 687920 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	European Union Concluded
2015/09/01 - 2016/04/30	Portugal Participa A21-201688 Other Associação In Loco, Portugal	Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian EEA Grants Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Holz, Sheila; Allegretti, Giovanni; Ramos, Alfredo. "Conferências e Conselhos Nacionais de Participação: a luta pela sobrevivência num governo autoritário.". In Qual o Caminho do Brasil? Instituições, cultura e política no século XXI.. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Appris Editora, 2021. In press Allegretti, Giovanni; Holz, Sheila; Allegretti, Giovanni; Holz, Sheila. "Habitar e Participar: quais os desafios para o contexto Portugues?". In O compromisso democrático com a participação cívica em tempos de emergência e reconstrução do novo normal, edited by Catarina Oliveira; Hermínia Gonçalves, 78-106. Porto, Portugal: EAPN, 2021. Published Allegretti, Giovanni; Holz, Sheila; Rodrigues, Nuno; Allegretti, Giovanni; Holz, Sheila; Rodrigues, Nuno. "Platform Economy in Lisbon During the Pandemic Emergency: Insights on the Circulation of Policy Ideas, in Spite of the Absence of a Specific Policy". In POLICY DIFFUSION: NEW CONSTRAINTS, NEW REALITIES - Proceedings of the II International Conference on Policy Diffusion and Development Cooperation, edited by Porto De Oliveira, Osmany, 103-130. São Paulo, Brazil: Balão Editorial, 2021. Published Holz, Sheila. "O percurso da lei toscana de incentivo à participação cidadã como direito fundamental. (The trajectory of Tuscany law to encourage citizen participation as a fundamental right)". In Hermenêutica, Justiça Constitucional e Direitos Fundamentai. 2016.
Conference abstract	Holz, Sheila. "The (lack of) coordination between participatory processes: experiences in Iberian Peninsula". Paper presented in 22nd World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, 2012.
Conference paper	Holz, Sheila; Monteiro, Tatiana Vilela. "Do Movimento Social à Participação Popular no Direito à Moradia para a população das Favelas: Desafio e oportunidades da trajetória brasileira (From the Social Movement to Popular Participation in the Right to Housing for the population of the Favelas)". Paper presented in III Seminário Nacional e I Seminário Internacional “Movimentos Sociais, Participação e Democracia, Florianópolis, 2010. Published • 10.5151/singeurb2019-106 Holz, Sheila. "Política de habitação social e o direito à moradia no Brasil (Social housing policy and the right to housing in Brazil)". Paper presented in X Coloquio Internacional de Geocrítica, 2008. Holz, Sheila; Monteiro, Tatiana Vilela. "A eficácia do usucapião coletivo como instrumento de regularização fundiária e inclusão social (The effectiveness of collective usucaption as an instrument of land regularisation and social inclusion)". Paper presented in First International Conference of Young Urban Researchers (FICYUrb), Lisbon, 2007. Holz, Sheila; Monteiro, Tatiana Vilela. "A cidadania através da participação popular no ordenamento do território: o papel da educação (Citizenship through popular participation in land-use planning: the role of education)". Paper presented in Congresso Educação e Democracia- representações sociais, práticas educativas e cidadania, Aveiro, 2007.
Conference poster	Holz, Sheila. "A força da lei e a força de vontade: a importância da lei para a promoção de práticas participativas na elaboração de instrumentos urbanísticos em Portugal e na Itália (The force of the law and the force of the will: the importance of the law in the creation of participatory practices in the development of urban planning instruments in Portugal and Italy)". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência, 2016.
Journal article	Sousa, José Paulo; Aldrich, Annette; Axelman, Johan; Backhaus, Thomas; Brendel, Stephan; Dorronsoro, Begoña; Duquesne, Sabine; et al. Corresponding author: Sousa, José Paulo. "Building a European Partnership for next generation, systems-based Environmental Risk Assessment (PERA)". EFSA Supporting Publications 19 8 (2022): 1-58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/sp.efsa.2022.en-7546. Open access • Published • 10.2903/sp.efsa.2022.en-7546 Allegretti, Giovanni; Holz, Sheila. Corresponding author: Allegretti, Giovanni. ""Stricto sensu VS lato sensu? Regulating Participatory Processes Between "The Force of Law" and "The Force of Will"". Etica Pubblica. Studi su Legalitá e Partecipazione, Partecipazione e legalitá. Dilemmi e sfide 2 (2021): 71-94. Published Holz, Sheila; Allegretti, Giovanni. "At a crossroads: UBER and the ambiguities of the COVID-19 emergency in Lisbon". Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation - Special issue "Platform Labour in the Post-Covid City 2 (2021): Under revision Holz, Sheila; Oliveira, Fernanda Paula. "Parcelamento e edificação compulsórios como instrumento de implementação e de consolidação da função social da propriedade. O caso Português (com algumas incursões no direito brasileiro).” “Compulsory urban re-parcelling and compulsory building” as an instrument for the implementation and consolidation of the social function of the property. The Portuguese case (with some incursions in Brazilian)". Revista Americana de Direito Urbanístico 2 1 (2019): 157-185. Published Holz, Sheila. "O Caminho Legislativo da Primeira Lei Toscana para Incentivo a Práticas Participativas", (The Legislative Path of the First Tuscany Law to Encourage Participatory Practices)". Boletim de Análise Político-Institucional (IPEA) 14 (2018): 47-53. http://repositorio.ipea.gov.br/handle/11058/8564. Open access Holz, Sheila. "O direito à participação no planeamento urbano em Portugal: um diálogo entre o Direito e a Sociologia. (The right to participation in urban planning in Portugal: a dialogue between Law and Sociology)". CEDOUA 39 (2017): 49-71. Published
Report	Sousa, José Paulo; Dorronsoro, Begoña; Holz, Sheila; Silva, Emília. 2022. Building a European Partnership for next generation, systems-based Environmental Risk Assessment (PERA). Final Roadmap Report. 10.2903/sp.efsa.2022.EN-7546 Ribeiro, Raquel; Santos, Ana Cordeiro; Neto, Daniela Sofia; Jesus, Fernanda; Valentim, Joaquim Pires; Coelho, Lina; Campos, Rita; et al. 2022. Projeto HOU$ING - Financeirização da habitação no Portugal do século XXI: Representações sociais, práticas e implicações políticas. Relatório Janeiro a Dezembro 2022. Nunes, Nathalie; Ferreira, Isabel; Holz, Sheila; Moniz, Gonçalo Canto; Michaux, Maximilien; Hilding-Hamann, Knud Erik; Andersson, Ingrid; et al. 2019. URBiNAT - Deliverable 3.2 - Report on community-driven processes to co-design and co-implement nature-based solutions. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/776783/results. Nunes, Natália; Ferreira, Isabel; Holz, Sheila; Moniz, Gonçalo Canto; Michaux, Maximilien ; Hilding-Hamman, Knud Erik; Andersson, Ingrid; Bjorner, Ema. 2019. URBiNAT, Community-driven processes to co-design and co-implement NBS. https://urbinat.eu/resources/. Hilding-Hamman, Knud Erik; Zacharias, Nabil; Chaabane, Ben; Nunes, Natália; Ferreira, Isabel; Caitana, Beatriz; Andersson, Ingrid; et al. 2019. URBiNAT, Strategic design and usage of participatory solutions and relevant digital tools in support of NBS uptake.. https://urbinat.eu/resources/. Hilding-Hamann, Knud Erik; Ben Chaabane, Nabil Zacharias; Nunes, Nathalie; Ferreira, Isabel; Caitana, Beatriz; Mackenzie, Tom; Holz, Sheila; et al. 2019. URBiNAT - Deliverable 3.1 - Report on strategic design and usage of participatory solutions and relevant digital tools in support of nature-based solutions uptake. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/776783/results. Dorronsoro, Begoña; Caitana, Beatriz; Esteves, Denise; Canto Moniz, Gonçalo; Ferreira, Isabel; Nunes, Nathalie; Silva Carvalho, Sandra; Holz, Sheila. 2018. URBiNAT - Deliverable 1.6 - Guide/manual on preliminary ethical guidelines, and communication and reporting procedures. Caitana, Beatriz; Moniz, Gonçalo Canto; Ferreira, Isabel; Nunes, Natália; Hansen, Alexandra; Mateus, Américo; Dorronsoro, Begoña; et al. 2018. URBiNAT, Handbook on the Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of the Project.. https://urbinat.eu/resources/.
Thesis / Dissertation	Holz, Sheila. "A força da lei e a força da vontade : a importância da lei para a promoção de práticas participativas na elaboração de instrumentos urbanísticos em Portugal e na Itália (The force of the law and the force of the will: the importance of the law in the creation of participatory practices to develop urban planning instruments at the local level, both in Portugal and Italy)". PhD, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/29527. Holz, Sheila. "Propriedade e a moradia na regularização fundiária: Brasil e Portugal (Property and housing in land regularisation: Brazil and Portugal)". Master, Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Sociais Políticas e do Território, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/4894.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2019/01/11	Culture of participation in Oporto (Portugal) - first results	Open debate with the research teams of the projects funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme ROCK (ICS-ULisbon) and URBINAT (CES-UC) Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/08/17	The right to citizen participation in urban planning in Portugal: Lisbon practices	Participation in urban planning Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, Brazil)
2010/09/22	The democratic participatory experiences in the area of urban planning in Portugal	Democracia e participação: experiências e teorias Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (Chapecó, Brazil)
2010/08	From the Social Movement to Popular Participation in the Right to Housing for the population of the Favelas	III Seminário Nacional e I Seminário Internacional “Movimentos Sociais, Participação e Democracia Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, Brazil)
2008/05	Social housing policy and the right to housing in Brazil	X Coloquio Internacional de Geocrítica Universidade de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2007/12/06	The effectiveness of collective usucaption as an instrument of land regularisation and social inclusion	First International Conference of Young Urban Researchers (FICYUrb) CIES - Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (Lisbon, Portugal)
2007	Citizenship and citizens participation in land-use planning: the role of education	Congresso Educação e Democracia- representações sociais, práticas educativas e cidadania Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2020/08/01 - 2020/09/01	Classroom at the Virtual Seminar "Covid-19 and excluding housing policies" in the 5th edition of the specialization in Epistemologies of the South	specialization (Postgraduate Certificate)	Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina
2019/08/01 - 2019/09/01	Classroom at the Virtual Seminar "Challenges to democracies in the 21st century" in the 4th edition of the specialization in Epistemologies of the South	(Diploma de especialização)	Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina
2018/08/01 - 2018/09/01	Classroom at the Virtual Seminar "Challenges to democracies in the 21st century" in the 3rd edition of the specialization in Epistemologies of the South, promoted by CLACSO	(Diploma de especialização)	Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2019 - 2019	COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) – Open Call OC-2019-1 in the role of Independent External Expert. Evaluator	European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium	European Union
2018 - 2018	COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) – Open Call OC-2018-2 in the role of Independent External Expert (as Rapporteur) Evaluator	European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium	European Union
2018 - 2018	COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) – Open Call OC-2018-1 (two proposals) in the role of Independent External Expert (one as Rapporteur). Evaluator	European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium	European Union
2017 - 2017	COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) – Open Call OC-2017-1 in the role of Independent External Expert. Evaluator	European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium	European Union

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2019/10 - Current	Frontiers in Sociology (2297-7775)	Frontiers Media SA
2017 - Current	Revista de Direito da Cidade (2317-7721)	Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro UERJ
2017 - Current	Revista de Administração Pública (1982-3134)	SciELO

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2017 - Current	Revista de Administração Pública, e-ISSN 1982-3134 \| ISSN 0034-7612 (Brazilian Journal of Public Administration Journal) (Brazil) (four times since 2017)	Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil

Distinctions

Other distinction

2009	Doctoral fellowship awarded by Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) – Portugal – consisting in monthly stipends since the admission in the PhD, for four years, and travels to research stay in Florence, Italy. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal