SOCIUS Members

Name: Sofia Bento
Email: sbento@iseg.ulisboa.pt
Other contact: + 351 21 392 59 33 (ISEG)

Degree in Social and Organizational Psychology by ISPA, Master in Economic and Organizational Sociology of Organizations by ISEG, PhD from the Ecole Normale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, in Sociology of Innovation (CSI-http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/) and in Economic and Organizational Sociology by ISEG - School of Economics and Management, University of  Lisbon.

Assistant Professor and Researcher at ISEG since 1996, teaching disciplines in the area of Science Sociology, Psychology of Organizations and Organizational Behavior. Coordinator of many levels of education: Personal Development Program of ISEG - Boost Your Talent, Master's degree in Economics and Science Management, Technology and Innovation, and in the PhD Program in Economic and Organizational Sociology.
Member of the Scientific Council of ISEG - School of Economics and Management since 2009. Represents ISEG in ESST ESST - European Studies of Society, Science and Technology - and responsible for the Specialization "Water management and water uses: public participation, stakeholders ' involvement and the role of science" (from 2012).
Member of the ParticipationWater.Net network - Integrating & Disseminating Knowledge and Experiences in Water Resources Management, Development and Participation.
Develops activity as researcher in the following funded projects: “Conflicts and public participation in hydrological management in Portugal and Brasil “, coordinated by Marcia Rios from Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, (MCTI/CNPQ, 2012-2015); and responsible for the SOCIUS Team at the project COMPOLIS (2013-2014), “Communication and political engagement with environmental issues” coordinated by Anabela Carvalho (CECS-Universidade do Minho).

Research in the area of Science, Technology and Society. Recent interests are: natural resources and public participation mechanisms, technical and scientific controversies, scientific institutions, professionals and knowledge.

Bento, S. (2013)- Para um debate sobre a mobilidade e a fuga de cérebros (coorganizado com Araújo, E. e Fontes, M.), Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, Braga, ISBN: 978-989-8600-11-0.

Bento,S. (2012) –"Envisioning innovative groundwater regulation policies through scenario workshops in France and Portugal" (em co-autoria com Rinaudo, J-D., Montginoul, M., Varanda, M.), Irrigation and Drainage , pp. 1-14, IRD:1661 (Special Issue on Groundwater Governance).

 Bento, S. (2012)- “Participatory analysis for adaptation to climate change in Mediterranean coastal areas: opportunities for flexibility in methodological choices” (em co-autoria com Faysse, N., Rinaudo, J.-D., Bento, S., Richard, A., Errahj, M., Varanda, M., Imache,A., Dionnet, M., Rollin, D., Garin, P., Kuper, M., Maton, L., Montginoul, M., Regional Environmental Change, 6 (1-20).

Bento, S. (2012), "A mobilidade de investigadores: um olhar sobre a biomedicina", (Araújo, E.; Oliveira, A.), Sociologia On Line (Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia) , 5, pp. 55-79.

Sofia Bento (2008), “Arte rupestre em Alqueva: Quando as pedras não falam”, in Arriscado Nunes, J & Roque, R. Objectos Impuros: Experiências em Estudos Sociais sobre a Ciência, Porto: Afrontamento, pp.263-299.