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Training Services in Cultural Statistics within the scope of the PROCULTURA PALOP-TL Project, Promotion of Employment in Income-Generating Activities in the Cultural Sector in PALOP countries and East Timor

  Climate activism has become increasingly present in promoting public debate on climate change. This research analyzes the role of activist communication in producing visibility, shaping discourse, and influencing social and political perceptions in Portugal around the climate issue. The analysis is developed along three interconnected axes: (i) media coverage of climate activism in the Portuguese press, using multimodal analysis; (ii) the discursive reactions of Portuguese politicians to activist actions, focusing on moments of high political visibility, examined through Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA); and (iii) the internal perspective of climate activism, based on participant observation of the ways in which actions are planned, executed, and evaluated by the activists themselves, in terms of their communicational effects. The goal is to discover the contribution of activist communication in Portugal to raising awareness about climate issues. Supervisor: Mehmet Ali Üzelgün    

The COOPERHATE - Multidisciplinary cooperation approach to prevent and counter hate crime and hate speech aims to provide a comprehensive approach to the prevention, reporting, investigation and prosecution of hate crime and speech-related incidents focused on (i) improving the enforcement of hate speech and hate crime-related laws; (ii) ensuring justice, protection and support for hate crime and hate speech victims; (iii) increasing the capacity of public authorities and civil society to identify, detect and act on hate speech and hate crime; and (iv) raising public awareness to hate speech and hate crime. To do so, COOPERHATE will perform an assessment of current gaps and obstacles to the successful implementation of hate crime-related laws, develop an online platform & app for hate crime reports and to enhance victim involvement, develop collaboration protocols between CSOs, LEAs, IT companies and judicial actors, create the COOPERHATE’s Detection & Assessment Technology and Motivation Identification & Victim Assistance (MIVA) Toolkit, provide a b-Learning training course for LEAs, CSOs and judicial actors, and implement a holistic awareness-raising and public positive-narrative campaign.

Adolescents in alternative care are at high risk of developmental outcomes. However, adolescence also offers avenues for positive changes and recovery from early adversities. To date, research has faced challenges in determining how adolescents’ psychosocial functioning changes during their time in care, and underlying mechanisms that contribute to resilience and wellbeing. Therefore, the question of “what works, for whom, and in what circumstances?” remains unanswered. The CAREFAL project draws on psychology, social anthropology, and public health to disentangle the developmental trajectories of adolescents in two alternative care settings (i.e., family foster care, residential care). This unique proposal aims to explore the differences across settings and how adolescents’ self-regulation interacts with the quality of their relationships with caregivers to promote positive outcomes. Additionally, CAREFAL aims at comparing the two cases of Spain and Portugal to optimize services and resources in each country. I will use a longitudinal, mixed-method, multi-informant, comparative approach to achieve the research objectives. The quantitative phase will involve a 6- month longitudinal study, incorporating data from caregivers, adolescents, and administrative records. This will be complemented by in-depth interviews with adolescents and caregivers. The research outputs will have: 1) scientific impact, as they will enhance our understanding of adolescent development across alternative care settings; 2) social impact, as they will equip families and professionals with evidence-based resources for improving adolescents’ self-regulation and caregiver-youth relationships; and 3) economic impact, as they will contribute to the specialization of alternative care and the efficient use of resources. By enhancing my expertise through conceptual, methodological, and communication training, I will be better equipped to showcase my abilities in both academic and non-academic markets.