Áreas Científicas
Industrial Sociology
Technology Assessment
Sociology of Innovation
Publicações Representativas
Futuros do Emprego na Sociedade da Informação (coord.), Lisboa, DGEFP-MTS, 2002
“Scenario-Building Methods as a Tool for Policy Analysis" in B. Rihoux and H. Grimm: Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis. Beyond the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide , New York, Springer, 2006, pp. 185 - 209.
Change processes and methodologies of future perspectives on work, (em colaboração com M. R. Paulos e D. Bannink), Leuven, HIVA/Unibbok, 2009, 82 pp.+anexos
From the Lisbon strategy to EU2020: illusion or progress for European economies?, in B.-J. Krings (ed) Brain drain or brain gain? Changes of work in knowledge-based societies, Berlin, Sigma Verlag, 2011
Designing a Technology Assessment post-graduation programme: Experiences, limits and needs, in M. Dusseldorp and R. Beecroft (eds.), Technikfolgen abschätzen lehren Bildungspotenziale transdisziplinärer Methoden , Wiesbaden, Springer, 2012, pp. 357-370
Perfil Profissional
Associate Professor (since 1999) of the Industrial Sociology in Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (UNL), with habilitation for Full Professorship since 2001. Is coordinator of the PhD Programme on "Technology Assessment" (UNL) from 2009. Nowadays (since 2011) is also Invited Researcher of the Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Is coordinator of IET - Research Centre on Enterprise and Work Innovation since 2002 at FCT-UNL.
Sociologist, specialized in the Labour and Organizations domain (ISCTE, 1980), Sociology Assistant in Universidade dos Açores (1980-83) and in Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (UNL) from 1983 to 1992, and has been Auxiliar Professor from 1992 to 1999.Was "Gastwissenschaftler" at the ITAS-Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis from Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe during 2007-08. Was also "Gastwissenschaftler" at the Fraunhofer Institut für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung (ISI-FhG, from 2002 to 2004), and "Visiting Researcher" in the Dept. of Portuguese-Brazilian Studies of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (1999).
