Curriculum Vitae (short version)
Sara Falcão Casaca
(Sara Cristina Falcão Gonçalves Casaca Ferreira)
IDENTIFICATION Nationality: Portuguese
Date of Birth: 21st March 1971 Institutional address:
ISEG, Rua Miguel Lupi, 20, 1249-078 – Lisbon Phone: ++351 213925800 Fax: ++351 213925940 e-mail: sarafc@iseg.utl.pt Website: http://www.iseg.utl.pt/docentes/docentes.php?qual=1032
PRESENT ACADEMIC POSITION: Assistant Professor
Sociology Unit
Social Sciences Department
ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Technical University of Lisbon Senior Researcher
SOCIUS – Research Centre in Economic and Organisational Sociology, ISEG Erasmus Institutional Coordinator
Member of the Directive Board (ISEG) Member of the Directive Board (Socius)
ACADEMIC DEGREES:
PhD in Economic and Organisational Sociology, ISEG, Lisbon, 2005.
Dissertation: Employment Flexibility and Gender Relations: The Reconfiguration of Gender Inequality in the New Service Sectors.
Master in Sociology of Work, Employment and Organisations, ISCTE, Lisbon, 1998. Thesis Awarded in Sociology, Premium António Sérgio for the best thesis of the academic year 1997/98.
Graduation in Sociology, ISCTE, Lisbon, 1994.
Third year of graduation completed at the University of Warwick, UK, Department of Sociology (1992/1993).
ACADEMIC TEACHING AND SUPERVISION: Teaching in undergraduate courses
Sociology of Work, ISEG, since 1999/2000 (Degree: Management).
Psico-sociology of Organisations, ISEG, 1998/1999; 1999/2000 (Degree: Management). Teaching in post-graduation, master and doctoral courses:
Courses coordination
Co-coordinator of the post-graduation course “Gender, Work and Citizenship”, ISEG, since 2007-08
Co-coordinator of the post-graduation course “Labour Market, Migration and Gender”, ISEG, 2006-2007
Teaching
Gender, Work and the Family, Master in Economic and Organisational Sociology, ISEG, 2007/08 (optional course unit).
Methodology of Social Research, Master in Human Resource Management, ISEG, since 2007/08.
Methodology of Social Research, Master in Economic and Organisational Sociology, ISEG, 2005/06.
Sociology of Work and Employment, Master in Economic and Organisational Sociology, ISEG, 2005/06.
Sociology of Work and Leisure, seminars, Master in Women Studies, Universidade Aberta (Open University of Lisbon), since 2002/2003.
Member of the Academic Staff – Doctoral programme in Economic and Organisational Sociology, ISEG, since 2007.
Thesis supervision (ongoing projects) Student: Sónia Patrícia Antunes Damião
Dissertation/Project: A participação feminina no mercado de trabalho e o papel da política social: O caso de Portugal no contexto da Europa do Sul.
[Female employment participation and the role of social policy in Portugal and Southern Europe]
Student: Ana Paula Baptista Palheira
Dissertation/Project: (In)Satisfação laboral dos docentes do 3º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e do Ensino Secundário: Estudo de caso.
[(Un)Satisfaction among teachers in elementary and secondary school: a case study] Master in Economic and Organisational Sociology, ISEG.
Student: Camilla Razzo
Dissertation/Project: Vida Profissional e Vida familiar: mulheres executivas portuguesas e europeias no âmbito da legislação actual
[Work-life balance: the case of Portuguese executive women] PhD in Economic and Organisational Sociology, ISEG.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES (LAST FIVE YEARS)
Areas of Research:
- Gender relations in the labour market. - Family and working live balance. - Gender and migration.
- New models of production and work organisation. - Work and employment flexibility.
Projects:
2008- “Raising the awareness of companies about combating gender stereotypes” “Equality Is My Business” DG/EMPL/G1 VC/2007/0350.
Position: National Expert for Portugal
2007 - : Gender relations and employment changes: bringing four lenses together (gender, ethnicity, age and social class), SOCIUS, founded by the National Foundation for Science and Technology (deadline August 2010).
Position: Project Coordinator
Guia de Auto-avaliação da Igualdade de Género nas Empresas [Guide for Companies’ Self-assessment concerning Equal Opportunities] Equal Project, CITE (The Portuguese Commission for Equality in Work and Employment), APEE, 22 November 2007.
Position: External Expert for the assessment and validation of the project
2006-2007: Gender and Poverty, project coordinated by Professor Pereirinha, ordered by CIDM (The Portuguese Commission for Equality and the Women’s Rights).
Position: Team Member
2004-2005: Women Migrants: Work trajectories and modes of social and economic insertion in the Portuguese labour market. In collaboration with Professor João Peixoto (project coordinator), Research Unit Economic Sociology and Sociology of Organisations (SOCIUS).
Position: Team Member
2002-2005: Technical-organisational Changes And Labour Relations in Brazil and Portugal. Research project coordinated by Professor Ilona Kovács (ISEG-UTL), within the
framework of the co-operation agreement between SOCIUS researchers and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, following an agreement signed under the auspices of the ICCTI (The Institute for International Scientific and Technological Co-operation)/CAPES (Coordination for Higher Level Graduates Improvement).
Position: Team Member
2002: Women and science: mobilising women in order to enrich European research, European Commission, Research protocol between SOCIUS and the High Level STRATA ETAN Expert Group of European Commission.
Position: Team Member
2000-2004: Flexible forms of work and employment: risks and opportunities. In collaboration with Professors Ilona Kovács (project coordinator) and Conceição Cerdeira, Research Unit Economic Sociology and Sociology of Organisations (SOCIUS), with Professor Juan Castillo (Universidad Complutense, Madrid) and Professor Annie Phizacklea (Warwick University, UK), funded by POCTI Programme (FCT, Foundation for Science and Technology).
Position: Team Member
MAIN PUBLICATIONS (last five years) Articles in scientific journals
“Labour segmentation and employment diversity in the ICT service sector in Portugal”, with Ilona Kovács, European Societies (Forthcoming).
“Flexibilidad y desigualdad en el trabajo: tendencias y alternativas europeas”, Sociología del Trabajo, 61, Madrid, Siglo XXI, 2007, pp: 99-124.
“La segregación sexual en el sector de las tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC) – observando el caso de Portugal”, Sociología del Trabajo, 57, Madrid, Siglo XXI, 2006, pp: 95-130.
Chapters in books
“Flexibilidade de emprego em Portugal e na União Europeia: colocando a dimensão género no centro do debate” [Employment flexibility in Portugal and in the European Union: putting gender relations into the debate], in Henriques, Fernanda (coord), Género, Diversidade e Cidadania [Gender, Diversity and Citizenship], Lisbon: Editora Colibri (forthcoming)
“Flexibilidade, precariedade e relações de género nos novos sectores dos serviços” [Flexibility, precarious employment and gender relations], in Piccinini, V.; Holzmann, L., Kovács, I; e Guimarães, V.. (orgs), O Mosaico do Trabalho na Sociedade Contemporânea Persistências e Inovações [The Work Mosaic in the Contemporary Society: Resistences and Innovations], Editora da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
e Oportunidades [Employment Flexibility: Risks and Opportunities], Celta Editora, 2006, pp: 55-89.
Conference Proceedings
“Employment restructuring in Portugal: new axes of gender segregation", Proceedings of the Conference Rethinking Inequalities, 7th Conference of the ESA (European Sociological
Association) Institute of Sociology Nicolaus Copernicus, University of Tórun, Poland, 2005.
“Formas flexíveis de trabalho e emprego no sector das tecnologias de informação e comunicação” (with Ilona Kovács), Actas das comunicações apresentadas ao V Congresso Português de Sociologia, Sociedades Contemporâneas, Reflexividade e Acção, em co-autoria com Ilona Kovács, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, 2004.
Working papers
O Olhar das Ciências Sociais sobre a Divisão Sexual do Trabalho, texto de apoio à disciplina “Problemas da Sociedade Contemporânea”, Mestrado em Sociologia Económica e das Organizações e Mestrado em Análise e Política Social
[The Social Sciences and the Sex Division of Labour],, paper to be used in the Master course Economic and Organisational Sociology, ISEG/UTL, 2007/08
Conceitos utilizados em Sociologia do Trabalho e da Empresa, Texto de apoio à disciplina “Sociologia do Trabalho e da Empresa”
[Main Concepts in Sociology of Work], paper to be used in the course unit Sociology of Work, Management Degree ], ISEG-UTL, 2005.
Flexibilidade, Trabalho e Emprego - Ensaio de Conceptualização [Conceptualizing Flexibility, Work and Employment], Working Paper, SOCIUS nº 10/2005, ISEG-UTL.
Flexibilidade e crise de emprego: tendências e controvérsia [Flexibility and the
employment crisis: trends and controversies] SOCIUS n.º 8/2006, ISEG-UTL (with Ilona Kovács, J. Maria Carvalho Ferreira e Teresa Sousa).
COORDINATION AND PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH NETWORKS:
Chair of the Research Network “Gender Relations in the Labour Market and the Welfare State”, with Vanessa Beck (University of Leicester), European Sociological Association, since 2005; member since 2003.
Member of the Research Network RLDWL Europe - Work and Labour Network, since 2004.
Member of the Research Network “Gender and well-being: interactions between works, family and public policies”, European Science Foundation, Action A-34, 2005-2009, since 2006.
OTHER ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
Referee of the journal Organizações e Trabalho [Organisations and Work] – journal of the Portuguese Association of Professionals in Sociology of Work, Employment and Organisations (APSIOT), since 1998.
Referee of the journal Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [Sociology, Issues and Practices], CIES/ISCTE (articles published in 2005 and 2007).
Referee of the journal Sociología del Trabajo, Sieglo XXI, Madrid (articles published in 2007 and 2008)
Referee Portuguese Journal of Management Studies (article submitted in 2008).
Member of the Directive Board of APEM (Portuguese Association for Women Studies), since 2007.
Member of the Executive Comission of APSIOT (Portuguese Association of Professionals in Sociology of Work, Employment, and Organisations), 1997-2001
Representative to the Pedagogical Council, ISEG, 1998-1999. PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
(last five years)
Paper presented to the Seminar A Reforma do Código do Trabalho e os Desafios da Flexigurança, “Flexigurança e problemas de inclusão e de exclusão”, CES, University of Coimbra, Portugal,19 November 2007.
Paper presented to the 8th ESA (European Sociological Association) Conference - Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society, “Gender and Poverty in Portugal”, with Amélia Bastos, Francisco Nunes and José António Pereirinha Glasgow - Glasgow Caledonian University, 3-7 September 2007.
Paper presented to the International Conference Women’s Participation in Democracies, “Gender-biased Occupations and Strategies to Overcome Precariousness: the Case of Portuguese Scientists", with Margarida Chagas, Casa Mateus, Portugal, 6-7 September 2007.
Paper presented to the Internacional Seminar El trabajo y la vida a comienzos del siglo XXI. Problemas sociales y agendas de investigación, “Flexibilidad y desigualdad en el trabajo: tendencias y alternativas europeas” (with Ilona Kovács), organizado pelo Grupo de Investigación UCM Charles Babbage en Ciencias Sociales del Trabajo, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 28-29 de June 2007.
Paper presented to the Interim Conference of the Network Gender and well-being: Work, Family and Public Policies - Cost Action 34, subordinado ao tema Production and
Paper presented to the Community, Work and Family II International Conference, organised by CIES/ISCTE, “Dealing with uncertainty: emotional labour in interactive and high-customer oriented services”, ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal, 12-14 April 2007.
Paper presented to the Conference Género, Diversidade e Cidadania, “Flexibilidade, emprego e relações de género: a situação de Portugal no contexto da União Europeia”, University of Évora, Portugal, 1-3 February 2007.
Paper presented to the Interim Conference of the Research Network “Gender Relations in the Labour Market and the welfare State”, of ESA (European Sociological Association), “Behind smiles and pleasantness: precarious jobs as female jobs in high-customer oriented services”, Gender (in)equality in the European Labour Market, ISEG, Lisbon, Portugal, 6-8 September 2006.
Paper presented to the Interim Conference of the Research Network “Economic Sociology”, of ESA (European Sociological Association), “Employment flexibility in the new service sectors in Portugal: an account on ambivalences and paradoxes” (with com Ilona Kovács), Old Problems, New Approaches, ISEG, Lisbon, Portugal, 6-8 September 2006. Paper presented to the Seminar Seminário de Emprego do ISCSP, “Transformações nas relações de emprego e de género: a situação de Portugal no contexto da União Europeia”, ISCSP, Lisbon, Portugal, 28 March 2006.
Paper presented to the Meeting Futuros da Profissão Sociólogo, “Mudanças nas empresas e o papel do sociólogo”, APS (Portuguese Sociological Association), Vendas Novas, Portugal,3-4 March 2006.
Paper presented to the 7th ESA/European Sociological Association Conference, Rethinking Inequalities, “Employment restructuring in Portugal: new axes of gender segregation", Institute of Sociology Nicolaus Copernicus, University of Tórun, Poland, 9- 12 September 2005.
Paper presented to the 7th ESA/European Sociological Association Conference, Rethinking Inequalities, “Rethinking Inequalities (em co-autoria com Ilona Kovács) “Employment flexibility and inequalities in the new service sectors in Portugal", Institute of Sociology Nicolaus Copernicus, University of Tórun, Poland, 9- 12 September 2005. Paper presented to the 25th Congresso of the Latin-American Association of Sociology (ALAS), “A (in)flexibilidade de tempo de trabalho no sector das tecnologias de informação e comunicação em Portugal: implicações nas relações de género e na vida familiar”, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 22-26 August 2005.
Paper presented “A segregação sexual no sector das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação – Observando o caso de Portugal”, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 22-26 August 2005.
Paper presented “As mulheres e os homens perante o trabalho e a família em Portugal”, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, 16 August 2005.
Paper presented to the 8thI Luso-Afro-Brazilian Congress of Social Sciences, A Questão Social do Novo Milénio, “Observando as (des)ilusões: flexibilidade, precariedade e assimetrias nas relações de género”, Coimbra, Portugal, 16-18 September 2004.
Paper presented to the 7th ESA/European Sociological Association Conference, Ageing Societies, New Sociologies, “The ambiguous effects of employment flexibility on women – some evidence from the Portuguese context”, Múrcia, Spain, 23-26 September 2003. Paper presented to the 7th ESA/European Sociological Association Conference (with Ilona Kovács), Ageing Societies, New Sociologies, “Flexible forms of work and employment in new economy firms in Portugal”, Múrcia, Spain, 23-26 September 2003.
