CV Summary

With a degree in Anthropology from FCSH-UNL, a Master in Public Policies from Iscte, Sara Canha is currently a PhD student in Anthropology (FCSH-Iscte) with a research grant from FCT (2022.12855.BD). She is a researcher at the center for Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) in Lisbon. She has a specialization in Care Policies with a Gender Perspective at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). She has carried out research on the social and political organization of care, with a particular focus on unpaid informal care and in the Portuguese case. Her current project has expanded the analysis of unpaid care to different forms of paid and unpaid care at home in Portugal. Her doctoral project is entitled "Practices and representations of care in old age - continuities and heterogeneities between different configurations of home care".

Academic Qualifications
University/Institution Type Degree Period
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales
Argentina - Buenos Aires
Post-graduation Políticas del cuidado con perspectiva de género 2021 - 2022
ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa
Portugal - Lisboa
M.Sc. Políticas Públicas 2018 - 2021
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Portugal - Lisboa
Licenciate Antropologia 2015 - 2018
Research Interests
Social and political organisation of care, care as relation and interdependence, work and value
Sociology Social Sciences
Anthropology Social Sciences