The Research Group on Gender, Life Course and Health is engaged in the understanding of the lives of the individuals as inter-personal processes. We are interested in the way how these lives, since birth to old age, unravel not only in relation to others, but also regarding gender and situations and experiences of health and illness. More specifically, the projects and activities of this Research Group focus and cross:

• Gender Equality, Identities and Diversity.
• Family diversity and dynamics and interpersonal relations, both within and between generations.
• Biographies, life transitions and trajectories, methodological and theoretical debates on agency and structure.
• Health and illness, sexual and reproductive health, health professions and organizations, therapeutical trajectories and medicine consumption.

 

We are also dedicated to the ethical-methodological challenges implicated in the research of these topics.

2018-2023 data

Gender Equality and Diversity

Biographies, Life Course and Trajectories

Families, Generations and Transitions

Health, Illness and Medicine.

 

Scientific Sessions nascer.pt 

These sessions, organized on a regular basis by nascer.pt - Laboratory for the Social Studies on Childbirth - a transdisciplinary platform for scientific research and dissemination - are public events, facilitated by members of the Laboratory, for the presentation and discussion of topics such as pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, sexual and reproductive health, practices and representations of motherhood and fatherhood, sexual and reproductive justice, etc..

Biographies and trajectories: from life, to data, to results - Clycle of Seminars

The main goal of this series of seminars, open to the public, is to to learn about the research of national and international researchers who, using the Biographical Method, the Life Course Perspective, and/or Longitudinal Methods and Techniques, deal with specific methodological challenges and ethical issues and dilemmas in the course of their research on the lives of individuals.