Patrícia Matos is an economic anthropologist trained in Lisbon and London. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the FCT-funded project ‘Negotiating Livelihoods under Transformative Politics: crisis, policies and practices in Portugal 2010-2020’, based at CRIA/ISCTE, Lisbon. She is researching the interplay between shifting moral grammars of distribution, social protection and conceptions of human needs during the austerity conjuncture (2011-2014) and the ‘anti-austerity’ political project that followed (2015-2019) in Portugal. Previously, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC project ‘Grassroots Economics’ (GRECO) at the University of Barcelona. Her research explored the grounded economic responses and regimes of meaning, value and morality mobilized by households and individuals confronting the austerity crisis, as they struggled to establish a grassroots economy of welfare. Her research interests include: neoliberalism, precarity and labour; gender, body politics and social reproduction; austerity welfare, needs and moralities of distribution. Her monograph titled "Disciplined Agency: neoliberal precarity, generational dispossession and call centre labour in Portugal" was published by Manchester University Press in July 2020.

Universidade/Instituição	Tipo	Curso	Período
Goldsmiths University of London Reino Unido - London	Doutoramento	FT MPHIL/PHD ANTHROPOLOGY	2006 - 2011
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas Portugal - Lisboa	Pós-graduação	Antropologia dos Movimentos Sociais	2004 - 2005
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas Portugal - Lisboa	Licenciatura	Antropologia	1996 - 2003

Antropologia Ciências Sociais