ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute

Post-Doc, CIES

Post-Doc Researcher

ISCTE-IUL

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DEGREES
- PhD, Sociology, Lisbon University Institute (2011)
- Post-Graduation, Data Analysis in the Social Sciences, Lisbon University Institute (2008)
- MA, Family and Society, Lisbon University Institute (2006)
- BA, Sociology, New University of Lisbon (2001)


CURRENT POSITIONS
Post-Doc Researcher, Sociology, CIES - Lisbon University Institute (2012-current)
Visiting Scholar, Sociology, Brown University (Spring Semester, 2012)
Member of  the Pool of European Youth Researchers of the EU-CoE Youth Partnership (2011-2013)


CURRENT PROJECT
Family Portraits of Contemporary Portugal: Generations, Life Course and Social Mobility (SFRH/BPD/76580/2011)


MAIN INTERESTS
Youth and generations, Social Mobility, Life-course, Research Methods, Gender.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Nico, Magda (2011), Transição biográfica inacabada. Transições para a vida adulta em Portugal e na Europa na Perspectiva do Curso de vida  (Unfinished biographical Transition: Transitions to Adulthood in Portugal and Europe in the Life Course Perspective), PhD Thesis, Lisbon University Institute.

Nico, Magda and Elisabete Rodrigues (2011), “Organização do Trabalho Doméstico em Casais do Mesmo Sexo” (Organization of the Household Labour in Same-sex Couples) in  Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas n.º 65, Editora Mundos Sociais.

Nico, Magda (2010), Individualized Housing Careers in Early Adulthood: Conditions and Constraints in a Familistic Society, in Sociological Research Online, Volume 15 (1), Sage, available on <http://www.socresonline.org.uk/15/1/6.html&gt;.

Nico, Magda (2009), Report on Youth Lifestyles and Living Conditions, European Knowledge Centre for Youth Policy (EKCYP) of the Partnership Programme between the Council of Europe and the European Commission in the Field of Youth, pp. 54, available in <http://youthpartnership. coe.int/youthpartnership/ documents/EKCYP/Youth_Policy/

Nico, Magda (2008), “(Des)Incentivos ao Arrendamento por Jovens” ((Des)incentives to youth rental) in  Laureano, Raul M.S. e Soares, Helena Matos (Eds.), Perspectivas do Crédito à habitação – 2008 ”, Número Especial da Colecção “Temas em Métodos Quantitativos”, Edições Sílabo, Lisboa.

Nico, Magda Lalanda (2006), “3.4.7.4.0.0: Os artistas de circo. Entre a família e o grupo profissional” (Circus Artists: between family and professional groups).


SELECTED TALKS

De-standardization of the life course across time and space: Analysis of the sequences and variability of the transitions to adulthood in Europe, RN- Families and Intimate Relations: Session Families And Social Change. European Sociological Association Conference 2011

How questions about time turn into answers about agency: Combining the life grid with biographical narratives, RN- Qualitative Methods, Session Mixed Methods. European Sociological Association Conference 2011

Transitions to Adulthood in Portugal and Europe: Disorder, variability and Windows of opportunity for agency, April 26th 2001, Sociology Colloquium of Brown University, Providence RI, USA.

The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time? New Manifestations of Precarioussness in Portuguese Youth, October 1st 2010, Casa de Santa Marta, Cascais, Mid Conference of the ESA RN27- Institutions and social change, Portugal.

Unfinished Biographical Transition: Transition to Adulthood and the (De)Synchronization of Housing, Professional and Conjugal Careers, Session “Changing biographies in a changing world”, July 13th, RC34, XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Goteborg, Sweden.

What’s sex got to do with it? Organization of the household labour in homosexual couples, RN13 Sociology of Families and Intimate Lives, ESA Conference, September 2009, Lisbon, Portugal (with Elisabete Rodrigues)

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