Vasco Ramos
Vasco Ramos (Lisbon, 1976) is a sociologist with a PhD from the University of Lisbon. Currently he is a Junior Researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-UL). His research interests are multiple and interdisciplinary, with a particular focus on issues of social inequality, food and family life. Over the last 15 years he participated in several national and international research projects on topics such as: family trajectories and social networks; food poverty and the daily lives of families with children; friendship relationships between children and pets; child sexual abuse and the paediatric emergency.
Presently, he is developing an individual research project on food practices throughout the life course. At ICS-UL, he is a member of the LIFE Research Group - Life Course, Inequality and Solidarity: Practices and Politics, OFAP - Observatory of Families and Family Policies and FoodHub – Platform for researchers on topics related to food. He is an elected member of the Scientific Council and the School Council, and former member of the Ethics Council.
His previous professional career includes 10 years of work in market research and marketing.