Patrícia Alves de Matos is an economic anthropologist trained in Lisbon and London. She is currently a Senior Researcher at CRIA with the project "Everyday Worlds of Welfare: A Comparative Study of Human Needs, Livelihood Sustainability and Social Policy in Southern Europe" (2022.00400.CEECIND/CP1758/CT0003) funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. This project proposes a comparative bottom-up approach to human welfare calculus and welfare sustainability, focusing on the theoretical relevance of the concept of "everyday worlds of welfare" (EWW). I provisionally define EWW as the historically and locally embedded set of practices, normative livelihood ethics and folk valuation arguments informing how households and individuals define and pursue the fulfilment of tangible and intangible needs (i.e. resources and claims) necessary to secure intergenerational livelihood sustainability. In a context of rising inequalities and the need to enhance the resilience of European welfare states, the EWW concept will allow the outlining of a more holistic framework of welfare analysis, with the potential to act as a valuable compass on the relation between people's embedded knowledge and social policy interventions. It will foster novel ways to devise greater equity in distributing well-being resources and their sustainability across generations. It will contribute to formulating more inclusive well-being indicators, thus responding to the recent call by leading academics and political agents to shift towards a well-being economy strategy in a post-COVID world. Patrícia Alves de Matos is also an Auxiliary Invited Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at FCSH/New University of Lisbon. Her research interests include neoliberalism, precarity and labour; gender, body politics and social reproduction; austerity welfare, needs and moralities of distribution. Manchester University Press published her monograph, "Disciplined Agency: Neoliberal Precarity, Generational Dispossession and Call Centre Labour in Portugal", in July 2020.

PROJECTS:

1. 2023-2029: Everyday Worlds of Welfare: a comparative study of human needs, livelihood sustainability and social policy in Southern Europe, 2022.00400.CEECIND. Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. (Principal Investigator).
   
2. 2021-2025: Laboratório Associado para a Investigação e Inovação em Património, Artes, Sustentabilidade e Território, LA/P/0132/2020. Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Research Fellow).
3. 2021-2025: Tacking informal employment in Asia: building post-COV19 solutions to precariousness through case-study based evidence on Bhutan, Laos, Maldives, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam GA 101007766. European Commission; PI: Abel Polese (Research Fellow of the PT Team coordinated by Antónia Lima).
   
4. 2021-2024: Valuable food, essential workers, vulnerable people, and social responses to crisis: Food provisioning systems during the COVID-19 pandemic (FOOD-Pan) PID 2020-114317GB-I00. Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación; PI: Susana Narotzky (Research Fellow).
   
5. 2022-2023: Everyday Worlds of Welfare: a comparative study of human needs, livelihood sustainability and social policy in Southern Europe. Funded by FCT, I. P. (UIDB/04038/2020 e UIDP/04038/2020). Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia. Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Principal Investigator).
6. 2019-2021: Governação, transformações políticas e negociação de quotidianos: Portugal 2010-2020 /Negotiating Livelihoods under transformative politics: crisis, policies and practices in Portugal 2008-20 (LiVEPOLITICS) PTDC/SOC-ANT/32676/2017. Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia: PI: Antónia Lima (Post-Doctoral Researcher).
7. 2014-2019: Grassroots economics: Meaning, project and practice in the pursuit of livelihood. Universitat de Barcelona Facultat de Geografia i Història, Spain. European Research Council: PI, Susana Narotzky (Post-Doctoral Researcher).