Verónica Policarpo
With a PhD in Sociology, I am a social researcher in the field of Human-Animal Studies, at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, where I coordinate the Human-Animal Studies Hub, since 2018. In 2022 I was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to study how animals recover from disasters, in particular wildfires. The ERC project ABIDE: Animal Abidings: recovering from Disasters in more-than-human communities, will run between 1 May 2023 and 30 April 2028. Before that, I coordinated projects "Liminal Becomings: reframing human-animal relations in natural disasters". [CEECIND/02719/2017]", on animals in disasters; and "CLAN: Children-Animals' Friendships: challenging boundaries between humans and non-humans in contemporary societies (PTDC/SOC 28415/2017)", on children and companion animals. In all my projects, I am interested in the construction of a more-than-human approach in which all living beings are considered as full partners, with equivalent rights.
At ICS-ULisboa I also coordinate since 2020 the post-graduate course "Animais e Sociedade"; the International Summer-School in Human Animal Studies (co-coordination with Malärden University, Sweden), since 2019; the Reading Group Animal Wonder, since 2018; and the webinar "The Post-Human-Animal".
At ICS, I also participate in the SHIFT Research Group (Environment, Territory and Society) and the LIFE Research Group (Life Course, Inequality and Solidarity: Practices and Policies).
More info about me on my personal webpage: https://veronicapolicarpo.net/
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