Sílvia Ferreira
Biography
Sílvia Ferreira is associate professor in Sociology at the Faculty of Economics of Coimbra University and researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. She lectures at undergraduate and at graduate levels in the Sociology degree, master in Sociology, master in Society, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and in the Sociology PhD Programme. She is co-coordinator of the master in Society, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University (UK). She has been involved in research on social security reform, third sector and social policy, gender equality in third sector organisations, social entrepreneurship and social innovation in the social and solidarity economy, social enterprises, volunteering and local governance through state/third sector partnerships. Her basic interest has been the evolving nature of the welfare state and of the welfare mixes, more recently, from a sociological standpoint based on welfare pluralism and complex social systems. Her extension work focuses the relation between the university and society, particularly the third sector/social economy.
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Latest Publications
Book Chapter
Ferreira, Sílvia (2025), A Governação Europeia e o Pilar Europeu dos Direitos Sociais: uma oportunidade para a dimensão social?, in Isabel Camiosão, Dulce Lopes, Licínia Simão (org.), A Contrução Europeia: 40 Anos de Reflexão em Coimbra. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 251-266
Article in Scientific journal
Ferreira, Sílvia (2025), "Instituições e ação coletiva: construção e explicação de uma tipologia empírica das empresas sociais em Portugal", Análise Social, 60, 255, 2-29
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Pinto, Hugo; Sampaio, Fábio; Ferreira, Sílvia; Elston, Jennifer (2024), "Academic Social Entrepreneurship: A Contemporary Reflection from Schumpeter's Economic Sociology", Businesses, 4, 4, 723-737
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