TIWELL
Territoral inequality and well-being
Description

How can we measure and monitor the effects of social inequalities in contemporary Portuguese society across regional, national and European scales? International agendas of human and sustainable development accept the premise that to achieve social progress, other dimensions beyond economic growth need to be accounted for. The deep inequalities in Portuguese society threaten the universality of fundamental rights and incite an urgent call for more data, based on technical and scientific knowledge, to understand the relations between inequalities and well-being as well as to frame place-based public policies and interventions. The project aims to develop a system of indicators to improve data availability, visualisation and analysis on the multidimensional relationships between living conditions and well-being in a comparative, intranational and international perspective. The model is based on the OECD framework and will be empirically supported by the European Social Survey as well as other national and international statistical sources. The key findings related to the development and analysis of this data will be considered in the second axis of the project, based on the prospective analysis, by using the Delphi method and place-based case studies. This second stage will involve the mobilization of agents (professionals, technicians and scientists) involved in the organization and implementation of public policies and recruited from the Portuguese Research Network on Public Policies (UMPP). The most valued dimensions in the definition of well-being in different social contexts will be mapped, defining 1) axes of problematic challenges in the relations between inequalities and well-being; 2) sustainable development strategies and place-based priorities from a comparative perspective at national and European levels; and (3) a quantifiable system of indicators and targets that allow the monitoring of the effects of policy action.

Challenge

Building and improving instruments for analysing and monitoring the relationships between social inequalities and well-being at different levels of organization and intervention within specific territories.

 

 

Approach

The study is organised in a multi-stage strategy based on methodological triangulation recurring in the use of quantitative (institutional statistics) and qualitative (Delphi method- case studies) approaches.

 

Academic Research Impact

Five main aims are defined:

 1) the development of a system of indicators for the study of multidimensional relations between social inequalities and well-being;

 2) the articulation of European, national and regional scales;

 3) the analysis of the territorial differentiations with national case studies;

 4) the study of prospective scenarios for Portugal; 

 

Economic and Societal Impact

5) the dissemination of results and the promotion of informed debate on the results of this study.

Internal Partners
Research Centre Research Group Role in Project Begin Date End Date
CIES-Iscte -- Partner 2019-05-01 2021-01-31
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Project Team
Name Affiliation Role in Project Begin Date End Date
Rosário Mauritti Professora Associada (DS); Integrated Researcher (CIES-Iscte); Global Coordinator 2019-05-01 2021-01-31
Daniela Craveiro Associate Researcher (CIES-Iscte); Researcher 2019-05-01 2021-01-31
Daniela Craveiro Associate Researcher (CIES-Iscte); Researcher 2019-05-01 2021-01-31
Maria do Carmo Botelho Professora Auxiliar (DMPS); Integrated Researcher (CIES-Iscte); Researcher 2019-05-01 2021-01-31
Rosário Mauritti Professora Associada (DS); Integrated Researcher (CIES-Iscte); Researcher 2019-05-01 2021-01-31
Nuno Nunes Professor Auxiliar (DCSE); Integrated Researcher (CIES-Iscte); Researcher 2019-05-01 2021-01-31
Nuno Nunes Professor Auxiliar (DCSE); Integrated Researcher (CIES-Iscte); Researcher 2019-05-01 2021-01-31
Paulo Neto -- Researcher 2019-05-01 2021-01-31
Sara Franco da Silva PhD Scholar (CIES-Iscte); Researcher 2019-07-26 2021-01-31
Luís Cabrita -- Research Assistant 2019-05-01 2021-01-31
Sara Franco da Silva PhD Scholar (CIES-Iscte); Research Assistant 2019-07-26 2021-01-31
Project Fundings
Reference/Code Funding DOI Funding Type Funding Program Funding Amount (Global) Funding Amount (Local) Begin Date End Date
na -- Contract Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos - na - Portugal 92064.0 92064.0 2019-05-01 2021-01-31
Publication Outputs
Year Publication Type Full Reference
2021 Talk Mauritti, R, Nunes, N., Craveiro, D., Botelho, M.C., Silva, S. F. & Cabrita, L. (2021). Investigação debaixo de pandemia: experiências e inovações metodológicas (exemplos do projeto Tiwell). Fórum Pesquisas CIES-Iscte: “Trabalho Científico e Pandemia”.
2021 Talk Mauritti, R, Botelho, M.C., Nunes, N., Silva, S. F. , Cabrita, L. & Craveiro, D. (2021). Inequality and well-being in Europe: from a transnational to a place-based analysis. Conference on New Techniques & Technologies for Official Statistics (by Eurostat).
2021 Talk Mauritti, R, Botelho, M.C., Costa, AF, Silva, S. F. & Nunes, N. (2021). Configurações Estruturais da Desigualdade Europeia. XI Congresso Português de Sociologia.
2021 Talk Silva, S. F. , Botelho, M.C., Mauritti, R, Nunes, N. & Cabrita, L. (2021). Reducão das desigualdades no âmbito da Agenda 2030 da ONU. XI Congresso Português de Sociologia.
2021 Talk Silva, S. F. , Mauritti, R & Nunes, N. (2021). Well-Being and Inequality during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Methodological Challenges to a Place-Based Analysis. Thinking Qualitatively.
2021 Talk Mauritti, R, Nunes, N., Botelho, M.C., Silva, S. F. , Craveiro, D. & Cabrita, L. (2021). Place-based inequalities and well-being: Portuguese case studies. ISQOLS 2021 Conference “Quality-of-Life and Adaptation in a Virulent World.
2021 Talk Botelho, M.C., Nunes, N., Mauritti, R, Cabrita, L., Craveiro, D. & Silva, S. F. (2021). Inequality and well-being in Europe through the OECD Better Life Initiative. ISQOLS 2021 Conference “Quality-of-Life and Adaptation in a Virulent World.
2021 Talk Craveiro, D., Silva, S. F. , Cabrita, L., Botelho, M.C., Mauritti, R & Nunes, N. (2021). Unequal landscapes: integrating digital social systematic observation in a place-based inequalities study. 15th ESA Conference “Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures”.
2021 Talk Nunes, N., Mauritti, R, Botelho, M.C., Silva, S. F. , Cabrita, L. & Craveiro, D. (2021). Inequalities and well-being in Portugal: monitoring through a local system of indicators for Europe. Measuring Progress STATEC Seminar Series.
2021 Report Mauritti, R, Botelho, M.C., Nunes, N., Craveiro, D., Silva, S. F. , Cabrita, L....Neto, P. (2021). Territórios de Desigualdade e de Bem-estar: Portugal e a Europa (TIWELL).
2019 Talk Mauritti, R, Neto, P., Botelho, M. C., Botelho, M.C., Nunes, N. & Craveiro, D. (2019). TIWELL - Territories of Inequality and Well-being: project presentation. SEMINÁRIO JRC, Sevilla.
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With the objective to increase the research activity directed towards the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the possibility of associating scientific projects with the Sustainable Development Goals is now available in Ciência_Iscte. These are the Sustainable Development Goals identified for this project. For more detailed information on the Sustainable Development Goals, click here.

Territoral  inequality and well-being
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