Integrated researcher in DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte since 2013, Lídia Canha Fernandes. Collaborates with CICS.NOVA.UAc e CICS.UAc since 2019. She has been an Visiting Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of the Azores since 2021.

PhD in Sociology - Labour relations, social inequality and unionism (FEUC, 2019). Master in Psychology (Minho University, 1998) and in Sociology (ISCTE, 2011). In the PhD thesis she addressed the conflict around unemployment in a context of austerity.

Using mixed and participatory methodological strategies, she carried out research on the following themes: conflict, social movements and collective action; (un)employment, work and precariousness; financialisation and social exclusion; poverty; immigration; gender; homelessness; distance education; vocational education; hate speech. 

She has participated in various social movements throughout her life: social, feminist, anti-xenophobia, anti-austerity, for the right to housing and to the city.