Sofia Gomes is a PhD candidate in Sociology at ISCTE-IUL. She completed her Master’s in Sociology at ISCTE-IUL in 2020 and her Bachelor’s in Public Administration and Management at the University of Lisbon - Institute of Social and Political Sciences in 2002.

Currently, she is a Guest Lecturer at ISCTE-IUL, where she teaches various courses within the Transversal Skills Laboratory (LCT).

She works in the field of Social Sciences with an emphasis on Sociology, particularly in the areas of Inequalities, Exclusion, and Education.

She is developing her doctoral research on the integration of non-traditional students in higher education, titled “Integration and Empowerment of Adults in Higher Education - A Case Study on Students Over 23 at ISCTE-IUL.”

Her previous scientific work is titled “Being Homeless, Social Capital, and Exclusion. An Ethnographic Study in the City of Lisbon.” Based on ethnographic work conducted on the streets of Lisbon, she studied the social capital of homeless people and its impact on their exclusion processes.