PhD in Sociology in ISCTE-IUL. Expert on Sociology of Work and Industrial Relations. Teacher at University of Coimbra from 1992-1995 and at ISCTE-IUL from 1995 to 2012. At the present, she is a Senior Researcher at the research centre DINÂMIA'CET– IUL, within which she has been a researcher since 1992. Correspondent of EIRO national team of the European network EIRO/EWCO of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions since 2006 and correspondent of EurWORK since 2014. Occasional collaboration, between 2007 and 2016 with the Department of Sociology of Copenhagen University, offering the course Globalization and Employment Relations in Europe. Member of the Editorial Committee of the journal Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, since 2006. Member of the Editorial Committee of the journal “Revista de Derecho Social LATINOAMÉRICA, Editorial Bormarzo, Alabacete. Spain.

Research Interests: Sociology of work and industrial relations: collective bargaining and social pacts; labour market regulations and flexibility; social protest, trade unionism and new social movements; austerity policies and change in employment and industrial relations.

 Ongoing research:

2018 (ongoing) – REVAL – From internal devaluation to the revaluation of work: the case of Portugal – Three years project funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation (Fundação de Ciência e Teconologia - PTDC/SOC-SOC/28811/2017), to be developed within the consortium between Dinâmia’CET- IUL and CES University of Coimbra. Coimbra.

 2018 (ongoing) – NEWEFIN - New Employment Forms and Challenges to Industrial Relations – European project coordinated by Hugo Sinzheimer Institute/University of Amsterdam University – funded by the European Commission /DG Employment, Social Affairs (VP/2017/004). Two years project with the Portuguese contribution under the responsibility of CESIS.

Main Publications

 Campos Lima, Maria da Paz and Martin Artíles, António (2018), “Social protests, discontent and politics in southern and western Europe: trends, patterns and polarization. Transfer. May 2018; 24 (2).

 Campos Lima, Maria da Paz (2017), "A grande regressão da negociação coletiva: desafios e alternativas", in Silva, Manuel Carvalho, Hespanha, Pedro e Caldas, José Castro (Eds.),Trabalho e Políticas de Emprego: um retrocesso evitável, Lisboa: Atual, 219-271.

 Campos Lima, Maria da Paz and Jørgensen, Carsten (2016), “Trajectories of collective bargaining in Denmark and Portugal: from national determined ‘organized Industrial Relations’ to supra-national determined ‘disorganized Industrial Relations’?” in Trine Pernille Larsen e Anna Ilsøe (Eds) Den danske model set udefra – komparative perspektiver på dansk arbejdsmarkedsregulering, Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag, Copenhagen.

 Campos Lima, Maria da Paz (2016). The influence of Troika on the erosion of collective bargaining in Portugal: changing rules and outcomes, in Evolution of collective bargaining in Troika Programme and Post-Programme Member States. European Parliament, Directorate General for Internal Policies. Study for the EMPL Committee.

 Campos Lima, Maria da Paz (2015), “A reconfiguração do regime de emprego e de relações laborais em Portugal na ótica liberal”, Cadernos do Observatório sobre as Crises e as Alternativas 5.

 Campos Lima, Maria da Paz and Martín Artiles, António (2014) “Descontentamento na Europa em tempos de austeridade: Da ação coletiva à participação individual no protesto social”, Revista Critica de Ciências Sociais, 103: 137-172.

 Campos Lima, Maria da Paz and António Martin Artiles, António ( 2013) “Youth voice (s) in EU countries and social movements in Southern Europe”. Transfer. August 2013; 19 (3).

 Campos Lima, Maria da Paz and Reinhard Naumann (2011) “Portugal: From Broad Strategic Pacts to Policy-Specific Agreements in Sabina Avdagic, Martin Rhodes and Jelle Visser (Ed.) Social Pacts in Europe: Emergence, Evolution, and Institutionalization. Oxford University Press.