
issue 4, year 2
Who is CATCH-EyoU
Introducing the University of Porto

Introducing the University of Porto

The team is led by Isabel Menezes, and includes Carla Malafaia, Norberto Ribeiro, Filipe Piedade, Joana Cruz, Ekaterina Enchikova, Pedro Ferreira, Tiago Neves, Manuel Loff, and Luís Grosso.
Tiago Neves is Associate Professor at the University of Porto. Since mid-1990’s, he has been involved in a number of studies on criminology and social and educational inequalities. His work has been funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and by the Portuguese Social Security. He has authored three books and published in journals such as International Studies in Sociology of Education, Conflict Resolution Quarterly, the European Journal of Social Work, and Higher Education. Currently, he coordinates the participation of the University of Porto in the YOUNG_ADULLLT project, funded by the European Commission, Horizon 2020.
Carla Malafaia holds a PhD in Education Sciences from the University of Porto (this was supported by a grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology – FCT – SFRH/BD/92113/2012). Carla has been actively involved in research since 2008, both in national and international projects (funded by the FCT and the European Commission). She is currently a researcher in the CATCH-EyoU project. Her research has dealt with conflict mediation, youth civic and political participation and citizenship education. She is co-author of two books and has published in journals such as Current Sociology, Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Social Sciences Education and the International Journal of E-Politics.
Norberto Ribeiro holds a PhD in Education Sciences from the University of Porto. He has been actively involved in research since 2006, both in national and international projects (funded by the FCT and the European Commission). His research focuses on citizenship education and youth civic and political participation, publishing in the last years several papers on these topics. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Youth Studies, Urban Education, and Journal of Political Science Education. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Porto, and holds a grant (SFRH/BPD/112289/2015) from the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology (FCT).
Filipe Piedade is a Phd student at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto. PhD fellow of the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE) and Integrated Researcher of the Contemporary History Institute of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Nova University of Lisbon (IHC-FCSH). His research is financed by national funding by the FCT - Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, under the Doctoral scholarship (BD/123619/2016).
Joana Cruz Mastered in Psychology of Deviant Behavior by the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto. She is currently a PhD student in the same institution and PhD fellow of the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE). Her research is funded by FCT - Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, with Doctoral scholarship reference PD/BD/114282/2016.
Ekaterina Enchikova is a PhD student at the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE), in the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto. She holds a research scholarship from the FCT - Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (PD/BD/114286/2016) and she is a member of the international project CATCH-EyoU. Using the statistical data from CATCH-EyoU, her research project aims to improve the understanding of active citizenship, contributing to more valid cross-comparisons.

CATCH-EyoU has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement n. 649538