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Mário JDS Santos (PhD) is researcher at the Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC), where he supports the implementation of qualitative methodologies in health research across the Centre. He specialised in health sociology, qualitative health research, and reproductive health matters. He holds a degree in Nursing (2007), an MSc in Health, Medicine and Society (2012), and PhD in Sociology (2020). In 2006-2007 he developed an exploratory research, with Brígida Riso, on the local implementation of the Health Promoting School concept as seen by the members of the school community. From 2008 onwards, he has been dedicated to research on the sociology of childbirth and human reproduction, namely on the social aspects surrounding contemporary home births, user's experience of maternity care, and obstetric violence. In his Master's thesis, he developed a sociological research on how families constructed the option of a home birth. His PhD thesis was dedicated to the social dynamics of the professional and informal home birth networks in Portugal. He also developed international, exploratory research on the organisation of home births in Denmark and Israel, within the COST Actions IS0907 iResearch4Birth (2010-2014), and COST Action IS1405 BIRTH (2014-2018). He has shared extensively is work, in national and international conferences, and in journal articles and book chapters. He is the Portuguese coordinator of the "Babies Born Better" International Survey, and is member of this survey Steering Committee.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Mário João Duarte da Silva Santos
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Santos, Mário
  • Santos, Mário JDS
  • Santos, Mário J. D. S.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
E613-BED4-88FA
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4804-1843
Google Scholar ID
OPI_484AAAAJ&hl
Scopus Author Id
57189516571

Email addresses

  • mario.santos@ensp.unl.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2012/10/01 - 2020/01/30
Concluded
 PhD in Sociology (Doutoramento)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"Knowledge, power and new professional dynamics in Portuguese home births" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved with Distinction by Unanimity
2015/10 - 2016/07
Concluded
 Post-graduate course on Data Analysis for the Social Sciences (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
 17
2012 - 2014
Concluded
 Advanced Studies in Sociology (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
 17
2009 - 2012
Concluded
 Master in Health, Medicine and Society (Mestrado)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"Nascer em casa - A desinstitucionalização reflexiva do parto no contexto português [Born at home - the reflexive de-institutionalisation of childbirth in the Portuguese context]" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2008 - 2009
Concluded
 Post-graduate course in Sociology of Health and Illness (Pós-Graduação)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
 16
2003 - 2007
Concluded
 Nursing Degree (Licenciatura)
Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa Pólo Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
"Operacionalização do conceito "Escola Promotora da Saúde" - Perspetivas dos intervenientes [Operationalising the concept of "Health Promoting School" - The stakeholders' perspectives]" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/01/11 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Comprehensive Health Research Centre, Portugal
2013/10/10 - Current Researcher (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2021/01/08 Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2008/08/25 - 2015/04/30 Enfermeiro (Enfermagem) Hospital dos SAMS do SBSI, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017 - Current Manager of Laboratory, Institute, Museum, Centre or Observatory ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal
nascer.pt - Laboratório de Estudos Sociais sobre o Nascimento , Portugal
2008/08 - 2013/09 Coordinator of the On-the-Job Training Programme of the Department of Neonatology, Gynaecology and Obstetrics Hospital dos SAMS do SBSI, Portugal
Hospital dos SAMS do SBSI, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/05/01 - 2019/07/14 PhD Studentship Owner ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/09/01 - Current Ethico-ontological choreographies: Forms of objectification and evaluation of the human embryo in vitro in the context of Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Scientific Research
PTDC/SOC-SOC/29764/2017
Research Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2015/05/01 - 2019/07/14 Knowledge, power and new professional dynamics in Portuguese home births
SFRH/BD/99993/2014
PhD Student Fellow
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2018 - Current Mapping out-of-hospital births - a pan-European research project
IS1405
Principal investigator
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal

Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain

OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet, Norway

Københavns Professionshøjskole, Denmark

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom

Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Belgium

Generalitat de Catalunya Servei Català de la Salut, Spain

VU Medisch Centrum, Netherlands

FH Gesundheit, Austria

Evropejskij Universitet v Sankt-Peterburge, Russia
Ongoing
2014 - Current Babies Born Better Survey
IS0907
IS1405
Principal investigator
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal

University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom

Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany
Ongoing
2014/05 - 2018/05 COST Action Building Intrapartum Research Through Health - an interdisciplinary whole system approach to understanding and contextualising physiological labour and birth (BIRTH)
IS1405
IS 1405
Researcher
Centro de Investigação e Estudos em Sociologia, Portugal
 European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Concluded
2017/11 - 2017/11 Home births, gender, and the state - comparing knowledge, power, and practices in Portugal and Israel
COST-STSM-IS1405-36339
Researcher
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

University of Haifa Faculty of Humanities, Israel
COST Action IS1405
Concluded
2013/09 - 2014/06 COST Action Childbirth Cultures, Concerns, and Consequences: Creating a dynamic EU framework for optimal maternity care
IS0907
Researcher
European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Concluded
2014/02 - 2014/02 Home-birth options, practices and organizations in Denmark
COST-STSM-ECOST-STSM-IS0907-020214-039543
Researcher
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Københavns Professionshøjskole, Denmark
COST Action IS0907
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Santos, M.. "Os cuidados de saúde materna na perspetiva das utilizadoras: Conclusões do Babies Born Better Portugal". In Nascimento e outros debates: Género, Parentalidade e Criação, edited by Neves; D. M.; Santos; M.; Pintassilgo; S. C., 65-71. Lisboa, Portugal: CIES-IUL, 2019.
    Published
  2. Neves, D. M.; Santos, M.; Pintassilgo, S.. "Introdução". In Nascimento e outros debates: Género, Parentalidade e Criação, edited by Neves; D. M; Santos; M.; Pintassilgo; S., 1-4. Lisboa, Portugal: CIES-IUL, 2019.
    Published
  3. Jette A. Clausen; Santos, M.. "Capturing the complexity of practice as an insider: in-labour ethnography". In New Thinking on Improving Maternity Care: International Perspectives, edited by Sarah Church; Lucy Frith; Marie-Clare Balaam; Marie Berg; Valerie Smith; Christa van der Walt; Soo Downe; Edwin van Teijlingen, 73-89. London, United Kingdom: Pinter and Martin, 2017.
    Published
  4. Santos, Mário João Duarte da Silva. "Private and Public Home Births: Comparing access, options and inequalities in Portugal and Denmark". In Saúde e Cidadania. Braga, Portugal: CICS-UM, 2014.
    Published
Book review
  1. Mário JDS Santos. "I. Löwy, Imperfect pregnancies: a history of birth defects and prenatal diagnosis, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2017. 296 pp. ISBN: 9781421423630". Review of Imperfect pregnancies: a history of birth defects and prenatal diagnosis 41, 5 (2019): 981-982. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9566.12857.
    Published • 10.1111/1467-9566.12857
Conference poster
  1. Mariana Torres; Dulce Morgado Neves; Santos, Mário JDS; Isabel Valente; Sara do Vale; Marta Gabriela Oliveira. "Birth as a professional experience: Results from a survey to Portuguese midwives and obstetricians". Paper presented in From Birth to Health - Towards Sustainable Childbirth, 2018.
  2. Riso, Brígida Alexandra Amaral Mendes; Santos, Mário JDS. "Profiles of the Portuguese: an analysis of public perceptions towards biobanks". Paper presented in Global Biobank Week, 2017.
  3. Mariana Torres; Santos, Mário JDS; Sara do Vale. "Baby-friendly hospitals: similarities and differences in the experience of women [in Portuguese]". Paper presented in International Breastfeeding conference, 2017.
  4. Santos, Mário JDS. "Control and coherence - an analysis of the experience of home births in Portugal". Paper presented in I International Congress of Maternal Health, 2015.
  5. Santos, Mário JDS. "Bringing birth back home – the option of a deinstitutionalised birth in Portugal". Paper presented in Optimising Childbirth Across Europe – An Interdisciplinary Maternity Care Conference, 2014.
  6. Riso, Brígida Alexandra Amaral Mendes; Santos, Mário JDS. "Reflecting the local practice of health promoting schools". Paper presented in 12th World Congress on Public Health, 2009.
Edited book
  1. Neves, D. M.; Santos, M.; Pintassilgo, S.. Nascimento e Outros Debates: Género, parentalidade e criação. --, Portugal: CIES-IUL. 2019.
    Published • Editor
Journal article
  1. Mário J. D. S. Santos; Dulce Morgado Neves. "A Manifest against the Homogenisation of Childbirth Experiences: Preserving Subjectiveness in a Large Dataset of the «Babies Born Better» Survey". Social Sciences 10 10 (2021): 388-388. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10100388.
    10.3390/socsci10100388
  2. Patrícia Marques; Ana Gama; Mário Santos; Bruno Heleno; Heleen Vermandere; Sónia Dias. "Understanding Cervical Cancer Screening Barriers among Migrant Women: A Qualitative Study with Healthcare and Community Workers in Portugal". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 14 (2021): 7248-7248. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147248.
    10.3390/ijerph18147248
  3. Delaunay, Catarina; Santos, Mário JDS; Gouveia, Luís. Corresponding author: Delaunay, Catarina. "In-vitro metaphors: ART beneficiaries’ meaning-making about human embryos in the context of IVF in Portugal". Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online 13 August (2021): 62-74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rbms.2021.05.003.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.05.003
  4. Delaunay, Catarina; Santos, Mário JDS. Corresponding author: Delaunay, Catarina. "Proximidade e distanciamento aos mundos do embrião in vitro - experiências significantes em tempos de desassossego". Terceiro Milênio 14 1 (2020): 14-40. https://revistaterceiromilenio.uenf.br/index.php/rtm/article/view/186.
    Open access • Published
  5. Catarina Delaunay; Amélia Augusto; Mário Santos. "Invisible Vulnerabilities: Ethical, Practical and Methodological Dilemmas in Conducting Qualitative Research on the Interaction with IVF Embryos". Societies 10 1 (2019): 7-7. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc10010007.
    10.3390/soc10010007
  6. Santos, Mário JDS; Augusto, Amélia; Clausen, Jette Aaroe; Cohen Shabot, Sara. "Essentialism as a form of resistance: an ethnography of gender dynamics in contemporary home births". Journal of Gender Studies 28 8 (2019): 960-972. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2019.1650256.
    Published • 10.1080/09589236.2019.1650256
  7. Santos, M.. "Introduction to "From Birth to Health: Towards Sustainable Childbirth. COST Action International Conference, Lisbon, 17-18 September 2018" [conference abstracts]". The Practising Midwife 22 9 (2019): 14-14. https://www.all4maternity.com/practising-midwife-subscribe/.
    Published
  8. Santos, Mário. "Can the unequal access to home birth be framed as a source of inequalities? A comparison between Portugal and Denmark". Portuguese Journal of Social Science 17 3 (2018): 335-347. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/pjss.17.3.335_1.
    Published • 10.1386/pjss.17.3.335_1
  9. Neves, D. M.; Santos, Mário. "Babies born better: o uso do software MaxQDA na análise preliminar das respostas portuguesas à secção qualitativa do inquérito". Revista de Pesquisa Qualitativa 6 10 (2018): 124-135. https://editora.sepq.org.br/index.php/rpq/article/view/210.
    Open access • Published
  10. Santos, Mário J.D.S.. "Where the thread of home births never broke – An interview with Susanne Houd". Women and Birth 30 2 (2017): 159-165. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2016.09.008.
    Published • 10.1016/j.wombi.2016.09.008
  11. Santos, Mário J. D. S.; Augusto, Amélia. "“Se estava tudo bem, porque é que eu havia de ir a uma obstetra?”: identidade, risco e consumo de tecnologia médica no parto domiciliar em Portugal". Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas 2016 82 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.7458/spp2016825922.
    Open access • Published • 10.7458/spp2016825922
  12. Sadler, Michelle; Santos, Mário; Ruiz-Berdún, Dolores; Rojas, Gonzalo Leiva; Skoko, Elena; Gillen, Patricia; Clausen, Jette A. "Moving beyond disrespect and abuse: addressing the structural dimensions of obstetric violence". Reproductive Health Matters 24 47 (2016): 47-55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rhm.2016.04.002.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.rhm.2016.04.002
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Santos, Mário JDS. "Knowledge, power and new professional dynamics in Portuguese home births". PhD, ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 2020.
  2. Santos, Mário JDS. "Nascer em Casa - A desinstitucionalização reflexiva do parto no contexto português". Master, ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/4684.
  3. Santos, Mário JDS. "Toque de entrada: Operacionalização do conceito Escola Promotora de Saúde – Perspetivas dos intervenientes". Degree, Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa Pólo Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007.
Translation
  1. Santos, Mário. Benefícios e riscos do parto planejado para ocorrer no hospital comparado com o parto planejado para occorrer em casa, para grávidas de baixo risco - Sumário e Resumo. United Kingdom, Brazil: John Wiley & Sons. 2013.
    10.1002/14651858.CD000352.pub2
Working paper
  1. Santos, Mário. 2018. "Institutionalisation and professional dynamics in home births: insights from a STSM comparing Israel and Portugal". Working Paper. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/16660.
  2. Santos, Mário JDS. 2014. "Para uma sociologia da maternidade - Um retrato temático da investigação sociológica portuguesa". Working Paper. http://www.cies.iscte.pt/np4/?newsId=453&fileName=CIES_WP194_Santos.pdf.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019 Families, genders, and sexualities: nursing care and diversity [in Portuguese] Questões de género na saúde
Escola Superior de Saúde de Santa Maria (Porto, Portugal)
2019 Controversies in debate: Doula support in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum [in Portuguese] Nascer Positivo
Gimnográvida, Hospital Escola Fernando Pessoa (Porto, Portugal)
2019 Bio-objectification of in vitro embryos: on the intersection of Assisted Reproductive Technologies and scientific research [in Portuguese] IV Conferência Rumos da Sociologia do Conhecimento, Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal
APS (Porto, Portugal)
2019 Interdisciplinarity and the emergence of the social studies on childbirth [in Portuguese] Diálogos sobre o parto: contributos da Antropologia [Inserido no ciclo "Dialogar para melhor cuidar" organizado pelo Grupo de Estudos e Reflexão em Medicina Narrativa]
GERMEN (Porto, Portugal)
2018 Beyond statistics: The social, professional, and legal status of out-of-hospital births in Europe From Birth to Health - Towards Sustainable Childbirth
COST Action IS1405 (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018 The birth of new fields of expertise: unraveling professional practices and knowledge around home births in Portugal [in Portuguese] Congresso Português de Sociologia
APS (Covilhã, Portugal)
2018 Ensuring Human Rights within a diversity framework of care [in Portuguese] Nascer e crescer num mundo sempre em Mudança
ESEL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018 Home births in Portugal [in Portuguese] Nascer Positivo
Gimnográvida, Hospital Escola Fernando Pessoa (Porto, Portugal)
2018 This is what being a midwife is: Redefining midwifery through home births From Birth to Health - Towards Sustainable Childbirth
COST Action IS1405 (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017 Ethnography as a way of being in the world Conference of the European Sociological Association
European Sociological Association (Atenas, Greece)
2017 The qualitative component of the Babies Born Better survey: Preliminary analysis of Portuguese data using MaxQDA [in Portuguese] CIAIQ
(Salamanca, Spain)
2017 Women's perspectives on maternity care: conclusions of the Babies Born Better survey [in Portuguese] Nascimento e outros debates: género, parentalidade e criação
ISCTE-IUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017 Choosing the place of birth: All European, all equal? [in Portuguese] ENCA meeting / Nascer em Amor
ENCA & APDMGP (Cascais, Portugal)
2017 Giving birth at home - tensions, contradictions, and the (im)possible regulation of bodies and practices [in Portuguese] A gestão política do corpo difícil pelos profissionais da Saúde, da Educação e do Serviço Social
CICS.NOVA (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017 Making the most out of the unexpected - productive collaboration and non-linearity in my research on home births Interdisciplinary Research Workshop: Childbirth Researchers
University of Haifa (Haifa, Israel)
2017 Doing gender through home births? Women and men crossing roles, norms and practices The Feminist Discussion on Motherhood: Philosophical, Psychological and Cultural Aspects
University of Haifa (Haifa, Israel)
2016 Raising the Issue of Inequality: Comparing Home Birth Policies and Practices in Portugal and Denmark. ISA International Forum of Sociology
International Sociology Association (Viena, Austria)
2016 Transfers in planned home births - perspectives from Portuguese women [in Portuguese] Jornadas de Saúde Materna do Hospital de Vila Franca
(Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal)
2016 How I became a doula: the unexpected trajectory of a research on home births [in Portuguese] Os desafios da investigação - experiências de pesquisa e reflexividade
ISCTE-IUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016 Essentialism or emancipation: gender conceptions in professional dynamics around home births [in Portuguese] Colóquio Doutoral ESPP ISCTE-IUL
ISCTE-IUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016 Submission or emancipaition? Feminine-masculine «superficial tension» in the medicalisation and demedicalisation of childbirth [in Portuguese] CES Gender Workshops Series
CES-UC (Coimbra, Portugal)
2016 Rethinking the sociological research on childbirth [in Portuguese] Forum de Pesquisas CIES
CIES-IUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016 Gendering Childbirth: Home birth midwives and doulas in Portugal Critical perspectives on childbirth and maternity care
European University of Saint Petersburg (São Petersburgo, Russia)
2016 The hidden side of obstetric violence: North-south dialogue on the appropriation of women’s pregnant body Symposium - Overgreb i forbindelse med fødsler
University College Copenhagen (Copenhaga, Denmark)
2016 In-labour ethnography: Challenges and possibilities when doing ethnography in our own work place ISA International Forum of Sociology
ISA (Viena, Austria)
2015 Risk perceptions, professional powers, and emerging actors in planned home births in Portugal 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association
ESA (Praga, Czech Republic)
2015 Home birth as gender re-appropriation [in Portuguese] XII ConLAB e 1.º Congresso da Associação Internacional de Ciências Sociais e Humanas em Língua Portuguesa,
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2015 The return of the feminine in contemporary home births [in Portuguese] I Encontro Nacional da Secção Temática de Sexualidade e Género da Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia
APS (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015 A reconfigured gynoecium - networks shaped by trust in contemporary home births Pregnancy and Childbirth Reframed - Anthropological perspectives from Portugal
CRIA-IUL and CIES-IUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015 Because surviving is not enough - contributions of the social sciences for understanding the changes in childbirth in Portugal [in Portuguese] Cine ISPUP
ISPUP (Porto, Portugal)
2015 The choice of place of birth [in Portuguese] Encontro Internacional da MCEESMO da Ordem dos Enfermeiros
OE (Porto, Portugal)
2015 Pesquisa de terreno em contextos de saúde: singularidades do duplo papel do investigador Investigação Sociológica em Saúde: Questões Éticas
APS (Almada, Portugal)
2014 Home birth and the reflexive consumer ESA Consumption Research Network Midterm Conference
ESA (Porto, Portugal)
2014 Birth de-institutionalisation trajectories: the rejection of medical hegemony in the option of a home birth [in Portuguese] VIII Congresso Português de Sociologia
APS (Évora, Portugal)
2014 Private and public home births – Comparing options, access and inequalities in Portugal and Denmark. II International Workshop “Health and Citizenship: Equity in maternal-child healthcare in times of crisis”, Lisbon. II International Workshop “Health and Citizenship: Equity in maternal-child healthcare in times of crisis”
ISCTE-IUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014 Home births in Portugal Home birth - Options, Practices and Organisations in Denmark
University College Copenhagen (Copenhaga, Denmark)
2014 «Freedom for Birth» - Which parallels can be drawn with contemporary Portugal? [in Portuguese] Ciclo de documentários sobre o parto - Freedom for Birth
ISCTE-IUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2013 The home-birth paradox: trust relations and medical technology consumption in pregnancy and birth International Sociological Association RC52 Interim Conference “Challenging Professionalism: New Directions in Policies, Publics and the Professions”
ISA (Lisboa, Portugal)
2013 «At home I knew they wouldn’t judge me»: Trust and risk perceptions when choosing a home-birth 11th conference of the European Sociological Association
ESA (Turim, Italy)
2013 Giving birth at home: reflections on the option and contributions to the hospital practice [in Portuguese] Ciclo de formação em serviço do Hospital dos SAMS
Hospital dos SAMS (Lisboa, Portugal)
2009 «We want to promote health» – The implementation path of the Health Promoting School concept” Better Schools through Health”: The Third European Conference on Health Promoting Schools
ENHPS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2009 Midwives' disappearance - A critical perspective [in Portuguese] II Conference of Maternal Health of ESEL
ESEL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2009 “Toque de Entrada - Construindo uma Escola Promotora da Saúde” [Building a health promoting school] I Congresso Nacional de Saúde Pública
(Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018/02 - 2018/02 From "In Labor" to "A Bun in the Oven": what have we learned from the sociology of childbirth (2018/02)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Nascer Positivo - International Meeting on New Paradigms in Childbirth (2018)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 Gimnográvida, Portugal

Hospital-Escola Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
2018 - 2018 From Birth to Health - Towards Sustainable Childbirth (2018)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Nascimento e outros debates - Género, Parentalidade e Criação (2017)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Humanos: Onde começa a nossa natureza (2017 - 2017)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2015/06 - 2015/06 Pregnancy and childbirth reframed - Anthropological reflections from Portugal (2015/06)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2015/05 - 2015/05 Ciclo de documentários sobre o parto - The Motherhood Archives (2015/05)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2015/05 - 2015/05 Human Rights in Childbirth - Misoprostol in Obstetrics (a conference by Jette Aaroe Clausen) (2015/05)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa, Portugal
2015/02 - 2015/02 Ciclo de documentários sobre o parto - O Renascimento do Parto (2015/02)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2014/12 - 2014/12 Ciclo de documentários sobre o parto - Freedom for Birth (2014/12)
Seminar
 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2014/09 - 2014/09 Ciclo de documentários sobre o parto - Microbirth (2014/09 - 2014/09)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Curso de Aconselhamento em Aleitamento Materno UNICEF dos SAMS (2012 - 2012)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Serviços de Assistência Médica e Social (SAMS), Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2018 - 2018 Portuguese Congress of Sociology - session moderator
Congress
 Congresso Português de Sociologia
Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia, Portugal
2018 - 2018 17th Biennial ESHMS Conference - session moderator
Conference
 17th Biennial ESHMS Conference
European Society for Health and Medical Sociology - ESHMS, Switzerland
2018 - 2018 Nascer em Amor - moderator of the event
Meeting
 Nascer em Amor
APDMGP Associação Portuguesa pelos Direitos da Mulher na Gravidez e Parto, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Humanos: Onde começa a nossa natureza - moderação do evento
Conference
 Humanos: Onde começa a nossa natureza

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022 - 2022 Saúde e Sociedade
2021 - 2021 Saúde e Sociedade
2021 - 2021 Qualitative Health Research
2021 - 2021 Qualitative Health Research
2021 - 2021 Saúde e Sociedade
2020 - 2020 Sociology of Health & Illness (1467-9566) Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
2020 - 2020 Sociologia Online APS
2020 - 2020 Midwifery
2017 - 2017 Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
2016 - 2016 International Journal of Prenatal and Life Sciences

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2018 - Current IBRAA - International Birth Research and Action Association Founding member
2015 - Current Associação Portuguesa pelos Direitos da Mulher na Gravidez e Parto Associado
2014 - Current European Sociological Association Member
2013/07 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia Membro
2016 - 2018 European Society for Health and Medical Sociology member
2007/07 - 2015/05 Ordem dos Enfermeiros Membro - Enfermeiro

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2014/08 - Current Member of the Steering Committee of the Babies Born Better Survey
Other
 Centro de Investigação e Estudos em Sociologia, Portugal
2018/10 - 2021/10 Member of the board of the Portuguese Association for the Rights of Women in Pregnancy and Childbirth
Director
 APDMGP Associação Portuguesa pelos Direitos da Mulher na Gravidez e Parto, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2019 - 2019 Normal Birth Conference Preston, UK
2018 - 2018 Nascer Positivo - International Meeting on New Paradigms in Childbirth Porto, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Session: "Childbirth spatiality, reproductive citizenship, and the body" at the 17th ESHMS Conference Lisboa
2017 - 2017 Normal Birth Conference Preston, UK
2016 - 2016 Session: "Emerging and resurgent actors in health contexts" at the ESA RN16 Mid-Term Conference Lisbon
2016 - 2016 Session: "Maternity care in Europe: social changes and institutional challenges" at the ESA RN16 Mid-Term Conference Lisbon
2014 - 2014 Optimising Childbirth Across Europe Brussels

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2016/12/05 - 2016/12/05 Sociology of Childbirth [in Portuguese] Sociologia (Licenciatura) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2015/04/16 - 2015/04/16 Sociology of childbirth - research trajectories [in Portuguese] Sociologia (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2017/01/09 - Current Queridas Manhãs Violência obstétrica

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2017 - 2017 Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare (1877-5756) Elsevier
2016 - 2016 The International Journal of Prenatal & Life Sciences cosmoanelixis

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2019/02/07 - 2019/06/29 Curricular Internship - Undergraduate Degree in Sociology | Inês Caldeira
Distinctions

Award

2017 Scientific Award
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2014 Best Poster at the conference Optimise Childbirth across Europe
COST Action IS0907, Portugal
2014 Best poster at the International Conference "Optimise childbirth in Europe", Brussels
European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
2009 2nd Best Communication at the Seminar on Maternal Health
Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa, Portugal