PhD in Sociology (University of Geneva, 1994) and Habilitation for Full Professorship (University of Lisbon, 2010). Currently Research Professor and Director of the Institute of Social Sciences (University of Lisbon). She has taught at graduate and post-graduate levels since 1980, at ISCTE-IUL and at the Institute of Social Sciences, and has supervised twenty completed PhD theses. Her main areas of specialization are sociology of the family, gender relations, and comparative analysis of social policies and the sociology of migrations. Her research and publications focus on changes in families and gender relations in Portugal and in Europe, work-family balance, parenthood and the role of men in the family, solidarity and social networks over the lifecourse, migrations and the transnational experience, developments in family policies in Europe, and the impact of the crisis on children and family life. She is a founding member of Portuguese Sociological Association (1985) and the European Sociological Association (1992). Between 2003 and 2007, she was in charge of the Research Network on Sociology of Families and Intimate Lives of the European Sociological Association. She has organized research projects and networks at national and international level, in particular for the European Commission’s Framework Programmes and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

Between 2006 and 2016 she was responsible for the Families, Lifestyles and Educational Attainment research line, and for the Research Group on Practices and Policies in Life Paths, Inequalities and Solidarity. She was a member of various evaluation panels nationally and internationally, at the European Commission (6th FP), the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), the Swiss National Science Foundation (FNS) and the European Research Council (ERC) She chaired the Social Sciences and Humanities panel at the ERC in 2015. In 2016 she coordinated the High Level Group on Evaluation of Science and Technology at the FCT (Ministry of Science Education and Technology). She has worked as an expert on family policies in several European Institutions and Networks since 1994. She was a member of the European Observatory on National Family Policies and of the Committee of Experts on Social Policy for Families and Children of the Council of Europe. She is a member of International Network on Leave Policies and Research. In 2018 she was Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva (Alba Viotto Professorship). She founded the Families and Family Policy Observatory (OFAP), which she headed up until 2018.

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Selected Publications

Wall, K., Widmer, E., Gauthier, J., Cesnuityte, V., Gouveia, R. (Eds.)(2018) Families and Personal Networks. An International Comparative Perspective. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Wall, K., Letablier, M-T. (2018). Changing Lone Parenthood Patterns: New Challenges for Policy and Research. In Bernardi L., Mortelma and Social Research Council (UK), at the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, at the Swiss National Science Foundation and the European Research Council. She coordinated the panel of Social Sciences and Humanities at the ERC in 2015.ns, D. (eds.) Lone Parenthood in the Life Course. Switzerland: Springer, pp. 29-53.

O’Brien, M., Wall, K. (Eds.) (2017). Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality Fathers on Leave Alone (Life Course Research and Social Policies, Volume 6). Switzerland: Springer Open.

Wall, K., Gouveia, R., Aeby, G. & Cesnuityte, V. (2017). Changing meanings of family in personal networks: a comparative perspective. In Wall, K., Widmer, E., Gauthier, J., Cesnuityte, V., Gouveia, R. (eds.) Families and Personal Networks. An International Comparative Perspective. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Wall, K., Cunha, V., Atalaia, S., Rodrigues, L., Correia, R., Correia, S. V., Rosa, R. (2017). Men and gender equality in Portugal. Lisboa: Instituto de Ciências Sociais / Comissão para a Igualdade no Trabalho e no Emprego.

Wall, K., Cunha, V., Atalaia, S., Rodrigues, L., Correia, R., Correia, S. V., Rosa, R. (2016). Livro Branco. Homens e Igualdade de Género em Portugal. Lisboa: Instituto de Ciências Sociais / Comissão para a Igualdade no Trabalho e no Emprego.

Wall, K. (2016). Family policies in Portugal: brief overview and recent developments. In: Cunha, V., Vilar, D., Wall, K., Lavinha, J., Pereira, P. T. (Orgs), A(s) problemática(s) da natalidade em Portugal: uma questão social, económica e política, pp. 191-201. Lisboa: ICS. Imprensa de Ciências Sociais.

Blum, S. (ed.), Bors, J., Bruckhauf, Z., Correia, S., Daly, M., Gosier, K., Mygard, M., Kapella, O., Rakar, T. , Rille/Pfeiffer, C., Vanhuysen, P. , Wall, K. (2015). Families in the Economic crisis: mapping policy responses in 5 European countries. Dublin: Eurofound.

Wall, K. (2015). Fathers in Portugal: from old to new masculinities. In Jaipul L. Roopnarine (Eds.), Fathers across cultures: the importance, roles, and diverse practices of dads (pp. 132-154). Santa Barbara and Denver: Praeger.

Escobedo, Anna, Wall, K. (2015). Leave policies in Southern Europe: continuities and changes. Community, Work & Family Vol. 18, 2, 218-235.

Wall, K., Almeida, A. N. de, Vieira, M. M., Cunha, V., Leonor Rodrigues, Coelho, F., Leitão, Mafalda, Atalaia, S. (2015). Impactos da crise nas crianças portuguesas: indicadores, políticas, representações. Lisboa: ICS. Imprensa de Ciências Sociais.

Wall, K., Aboim, S. (2015). Gender in ageing Portugal: following the lives of men and women. In Kathrin Komp & Stina Johansson (Eds.), Population Ageing from a Lifecourse Perspective: Critical and International approaches (pp. 65-84). London: Policy Press.

Wall, Karin; Cunha, Vanessa; Rodrigues, Leonor e Correia, Rita (2015) «Famílias». In João Ferrão e Ana Delicado (coord.). Portugal Social em Mudança: Portugal no Contexto Europeu em Anos de Crise. Lisboa: ICS-ULisboa, 31-45.

Wall, K., Almeida, A. N. de, Vieira, M. M., Cunha, V., Leonor Rodrigues, Coelho, F., Leitão, Mafalda, Atalaia, S. (2015). Impactos da crise nas crianças portuguesas: indicadores, políticas, representações. Lisboa: ICS. Imprensa de Ciências Sociais.

Delgado, A., Wall, K. (Eds.). (2014). Famílias nos censos 2011: diversidade e mudança. Lisboa: Instituto Nacional de Estatística / Imprensa de Ciências Sociais.

Wall, K., Gouveia, Rita (2014). Changing meanings of family in personal relationships. Current Sociology, 62 (3), 352-373.

Wall, K. (2014). Fathers on Leave Alone: Does It Make a Difference to Their Lives? Fathering, 12 (2), 196-210.

Wall, K., Samitca, S., Correia, S. (2013). Negotiating work and care in a changing welfare regime: the case of Portugal. In Le Bihan, B., Martin, C. & Knijn, T. (Eds.), Work and care under pressure: care arrangements across Europe (pp. 125-149). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Wall, K. (2011). A intervenção do Estado: políticas públicas de família. In Almeida, Ana Nunes (Eds.), História da vida privada em Portugal: os nossos dias (pp. 340-374). Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores / Temas e debates.

Wall, K., Aboim, S., Cunha, V. (Eds.). (2010). A Vida Familiar no Masculino: Negociando Velhas e Novas Masculinidades. Lisboa: Comissão para a Igualdade no Trabalho e no Emprego.

C. Lyonnette, Crompton, R., Wall, K. (2007). Gender, Occupational Class and Work-Life Conflict. Community, Work and Family Vol. 10, 3, 283-308.

Wall, K. (Eds.). (2005). Famílias em Portugal: percursos, interacções, redes sociais. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais.

Wall, K., José, São José (2004). Managing Work and Care: A Difficult Challenge for Immigrant Families. Social Policy & Administration Vol. 38, 6, 591-621.

Wall, K., Aboim, S., Cunha, V., Coito, Pedro Vasconcelos (2001). Families and Informal Support Networks in Portugal: The Reproduction of Inequality. Journal of European Social Policy Vol. 11, 3, 213-233.

Wall, K. (1998). Famílias no Campo. Passado e Presente em duas Freguesias do Baixo Minho. Lisboa: D. Quixote, Colecção Portugal de Perto.