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Activities 2010 Activities - 2010 Table of contents General Information .........................................................................................................................4 Unit Description ....................................................................................................................4 General Objectives .............................................................................................................5 Main Achievements ............................................................................................................7 Integrative/multidisciplinary activities ..............................................................................8 Outreach activities ........................................................................................................... 10 Outreach/Science and Society ..................................................................................... 11 Networking Actions .......................................................................................................... 13 Training Activities ............................................................................................................... 14 Organization of International Events ............................................................................. 15 Internal Services and Resources .................................................................................... 16 External Services and Resources .................................................................................... 17 Additional Comments ...................................................................................................... 18 Summary of internal evaluations ................................................................................... 20 Future internal Evaluation Plan for 2011 ....................................................................... 21 Research Groups ............................................................................................................................ 23 Citizenship and Social Policies .......................................................................................... 23 City and Urban Culture ...................................................................................................... 34 Science, Technology and Society ................................................................................... 43 Comparative Cultural Studies ........................................................................................... 57 Peace Studies ....................................................................................................................... 69 Migration Studies ................................................................................................................. 79 Labour and Trade Unionism ............................................................................................... 87 Governance and Economic Institutions ......................................................................... 95 Architecture and Urbanism ............................................................................................. 104 Democracy, Multicultural Citizenship and Participation ........................................... 117 State, Law and Administration ........................................................................................ 132 Annex 1 - North-South Library Activities Report ...................................................................... 145 1. North-South Library (NS Library) .................................................................................. 145 1.1. Human resources ....................................................................................................... 145 1.2. Collections‘ Development and Maintenance ..................................................... 146 2 Activities - 2010 1.3. External Users ............................................................................................................... 149 1.4. Circulation (lending/borrowing) ............................................................................. 150 1.5. Selective Dissemination of Information .................................................................. 151 1.6. SIB-UC (Integrated System of Coimbra University Libraries) ............................... 151 1.7. Reference and research support............................................................................ 152 1.8. Professional Development ........................................................................................ 152 Annex 2 - Research Projects....................................................................................................... 155 Research Projects .............................................................................................................. 155 Post-Doctoral Research Projects at CES ....................................................................... 163 Annex 3 – Networks ...................................................................................................................... 173 Interaction with other national and international research units ............................ 173 Annex 4 - CES Research Team ................................................................................................... 180 Research Team .................................................................................................................. 180 Researchers ........................................................................................................................ 180 Junior Researchers ............................................................................................................ 184 Post-doctoral researchers ................................................................................................ 185 Active Doctoral Programmes ......................................................................................... 186 Administrative Services ..................................................................................................... 188 Annex 5 - CES Outputs................................................................................................................. 192 1. Summary of 2010 Scientific Outputs .......................................................................... 192 2. Comparative analysis of the last 5 years Scientific Outputs ................................. 193 3. Description ...................................................................................................................... 195 Annex 6 - CES Scientific Events .................................................................................................. 253 3 Activities - 2010 General Information Unit Description CES is a scientific institution developing research in the social sciences and humanities marked by an transdisciplinary approach. CES carries on a large range of scientific and outreach activities including doctoral and post- doctoral programmes, training courses in advanced studies, the participation in national and international networks, the development of life-long training activities in professional and academic fields, the dissemination of scientific culture and the promotion of cultural activities. CES‘ activities are coordinated by a Scientific Director (SD), elected by the community of researchers. Other elected bodies assure the government of the Centre: the General Assembly of researchers (GA) is responsible for electing and supervising the Board of Directors (BD) and approving the Plan of Activities and the Reports of Activities and Accounts; the Scientific Board (SB) is responsible for the institution‘s strategic and scientific management; and the BD is responsible for the implementation of the plan of activities. An Executive Director is in charge of day-to-day management of CES with the assistance of specialized outsource services, in pivotal areas like network management, legal services, accountancy, translation, and design services. External experts are statutory invited to take part in selection panels for new researchers or to carry out the external evaluation of CES‘ activities. CES developed a long internal debate throughout 2010 which led to a deep scientific and administrative restructuring. Following closely the observations and suggestions put forward by both the FCT International Evaluation Report and the External Unit of Evaluation which visited CES that same year, the changes implemented aimed at: i. the discontinuation of the Thematic Areas which aggregated the Research Groups; ii. the significant reduction of the number of Research Groups (from 11 to 5); iii. the reorganization of the Observatories, implying the reduction of its number as well (from 7 to 6, this meaning the fusion of 2 of the previously existent, the discontinuation of 1 and the creation of a new one); iv. the professionalization of the management of CES by creating the position of the Executive Director to coordinate the tasks of administrative management; and v. the organization of administrative services into departments. The three first changes aimed at the simplification of the scientific structure and the reinforcement of opportunities for transdisciplinary research, in order to consolidate the 4 Activities - 2010 interconnection of scientific areas and to promote the densification of the activities in progress. The last change aims at the professionalization of management at