Vera Borges is a Research Fellow of sociology at CIES-Iscte. She is Invited Professor at LCT-Iscte and Department of Sociology-Iscte. Since 2020, she collaborates with the Master in Management and Studies of Culture (Mestrado em Estudos e Gestão da Cultura), at Iscte. Since 2022, she teaches Professions, Organizations and Creativity at Iscte.

Recently, she coordinated the team that carried out the Study on the Artists and Projects supported by the FCG (study funded by the FCG, 2022). She is currently coordinating the Study of the Portuguese Theater and Cine-Theaters Network (2023), at CIES-Iscte.

Among her recent co-authored articles are Mapping Cultural Policy in Portugal: From incentives to crisis (International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2018); Emerging Patterns of Artistic Organizations in Portugal: A Three Case Studies analysis (Sociologia del Lavoro, 2020); and The transformative role of Angels cultural organisations under austerity (Cultural Trends, 2021).

V. Borges, Ph.D. in Sociology (EHESS-UNL) since 2005, she is a permanent researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL) and associated researcher at ICS (UL). She worked at the ICS (UL), from 2005 to 2013, with the support of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Her main research interests are artistic work, careers and labour markets inequalities; professions, organisations and risk management; cultural public policy.

Graduated in Sociology, she completed her master’s degree at ISCTE (IUL), in 1999. She won the António Sérgio Prize. In 2005, she  an internship as research fellow in the Centre of Sociology of Work and Arts at EHESS, Paris, with support from the Gulbenkian Foundation (FCG). She worked at the ICS (UL), from 2005 to 2013, with the support of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). H

She published 9 national and international books with the results of research on professions, organizations and labour markets, reputation and professional risk management. She contributed to several publications and initiatives with informational, scientific and communication of science objectives, such as organizing research seminars, round table debates, and open seminars.

From 2009-2011, she was on the board of the Sociology of the Professions Network, in the European Sociological Association, and she is presently co-director of the Art, Culture and Communication Network at the Portuguese Sociological Association. She is co-organizer of the Interim Meeting of the Sociology of Art Network for the European Sociological Association, 2016. She has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals, and has also written 15 book chapters, 7 of which at the international circulation. Meanwhile, she has organized national and international colloquiums each year (with P.-M. Menger, D. Throsby, F. Behamou, T. Cowen, L. Karpik, A. Markusen, A. Abbott).