Sónia Alves
Sónia Alves is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of housing, urban governance, and institutional analysis. Her work brings together perspectives from human geography, urban planning, and sociology to examine the complex dynamics of housing systems, spatial inequality, and policy design and implementation. Her research is guided by several overarching and often intersecting themes in these fields — each offering essential insights for understanding contemporary urban challenges.
Over the past decade, she has worked across several European countries, including Portugal, Denmark, and the United Kingdom, in both academic and policy consultancy roles. Her publications in leading international journals reflect a strong commitment to theory-building, empirical rigour, and public-facing scholarship.
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| Designação | Encontro | Data |
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| The governance of affordable housing through inclusionary housing tools, and public-private partnerships | BIP: Housing Solutions in the 21st Century Cities, Facing the Affordable Housing Crisis | 11/11/2024 |
| The Benefits of a Build-to-Rent Model as Opposed to a Build-to-Sell Model: The Example of Évora | The Architecture of Need: Collective-Use Facilities and Community Service in the Twentieth Century | 29/10/2024 |
| Comparing housing policies for roma communities in Serbia and Portugal | The 5 th Congress of Slavic Geographers and Ethnographers | 24/10/2024 |
| Understanding the long-term development of social housing systems in Portugal and Italy through a comparative process-tracing approach | ENHR CONFERENCE 2024 Making Housing Systems work: Evidence and Solutions | 27/08/2024 |
| O problema da habitação: desafios e soluções | Encontro Nacional Estudantes de Geografia | 06/06/2024 |
| Descodificando as dinâmicas espaciais dos preços de vendas e rendas na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa com recurso a modelos random forest | XIV Congresso da Geografia Portuguesa | 14/11/2023 |
| Copenhagen: Combining Welfare and Competitiveness - Challenges of Metropolitan Governance | Seminário internacional SHIFT | 25/05/2023 |
| Estudos de caso e Avaliação: uma reflexão a partir do campo das políticas urbanas e de habitação | Ciclo de aulas abertas intitulado "Teoria, Investigação e Prática Profissional" | 21/10/2021 |
| Innovative Approach and Perspectives of Applied Geography | 5th Serbian Congress of Geographers | 10/09/2021 |
| Delivering on affordability: strategies and actions | Housing Week ‘Concrete actions for Social and affordable Housing in the EU’ | 26/01/2021 |
| The impacts of recent reforms in Portugal’s private rental sector | Recent Trends in Rent Regulation | 21/01/2021 |
| A Lei de Bases da Habitação. As bases do direito à habitação, a tarefa pública de habitação e os seus instrumentos de Execução | Conferência inaugural do Curso de Direito do Urbanismo e da Habitação | 07/02/2020 |
| Planning policies and affordable housing: A cross-comparative analysis of Portugal, England and Denmark | Conference on the Global Dynamics of Social Policy | 25/10/2018 |
| Land-use planning and housing – issues of supply and affordability in England and Portugal | Planning Research Conference 2018- Alternative Futures for Planning UK and Ireland | 03/09/2018 |
| Outcomes of Urban Requalification under Neoliberalism: A critical appraisal of the SRU model | European Sociological Association Research Network 37 (Urban Sociology) - III Midterm Conference Inequality and uncertainty: current challenges for cities | 27/06/2018 |
| Conceptualising the differences and commonality in spatial planning | Professionalism, Policy and Practice: Exploring the Relationship between Theory and Practice in Housing Studies | 11/04/2018 |
| Land-use planning and the provision of affordable housing in Portugal | Migrations – Impacts, Law and Spatial Planning 12th Annual Conference of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights | 23/02/2018 |
| Models of urban rehabilitation under neoliberalism and austerity: the case of Porto | Spaces of Dialog for Places of Dignity: Fostering the European Dimension of Planning. 30th annual AESOP 2017 Congress | 14/07/2017 |
| Ethnic Housing Segregation and the Roma/Gypsy Population: a portuguese perspective | Spaces of Dialog for Places of Dignity: Fostering the European Dimension of Planning. 30th annual AESOP 2017 Congress | 11/07/2017 |
| The quest for social mix: the Copenhagen experience | Cities for Us: engaging communities and citizens for sustainable development / Cidades para Nós:envolver comunidades e cidadãos no desenvolvimento sustentável | 02/06/2016 |
| The Role of the Welfare State and Housing Policies as a Medium and Outcome of Rising Inequalities in the Cities | Building Bridges: Cities and Regions in a Transnational World | 05/04/2016 |
| Políticas de Habitação em Portugal: tendências recentes e cenários futuros | 1º Encontro de Prospetiva "Pensar o futuro, preparar a mudança" | 11/09/2015 |
| Social housing in Portugal and Denmark: a comparative perspective | ENHR, Lisboa, 2015 | 01/07/2015 |
| Affordable housing and urban regeneration in Portugal: a troubled tryst? | ENHR, Lisboa, 2015 | 29/06/2015 |
| Comparing housing policies for roma communities in Serbia and Portugal | The 5 th Congress of Slavic Geographers and Ethnographers |



