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Nélson Alves Ramalho
Telephone 217903946
(ext:) 722172
Research Fields
Gender and Sexuality
Transgender, Gender Diversity
LGBT
Sex Work
Poverty, Exclusion and Social Inequalities
Social Work
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Gender, Life Course and Health
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ocial worker, holds a PhD in Social Work from Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon (2019), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), and a degree in Social Work from the Catholic University of Portugal (2004). He also holds a postgraduate specialisation in Gender Equality. He is an assistant professor at Lusófona University – University Centre of Lisbon, where he teaches several undergraduate and master's level curricular units at the Institute of Social Work. He is an integrated researcher at LusoGlobe – Lusófona Centre on Global Challenges and an associate researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte). His research and publications focus on gender, trans identities, LGBTQI+ issues, sex work, violence, discrimination, and social work. His doctoral thesis, which examined the reality of travesti sex work in Portugal, was awarded the APAV Prize for Research (2019) and the Silva Leal Prize (2020). He ... [more info]
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