Marta Araújo

MARTA ARAÚJO (PhD, University of London, Institute of Education - School of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies, 2003) is Principal Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES). Her interdisciplinary research addresses two complementary lines of enquiry: i) public policy, political discourse, and ethnic-racial discrimination; ii) race, history education and knowledge production, focusing on school and public history. Since 2022, Marta has been Vice-President of the Scientific Board at CES, where she previously co-coordinated the PhD Programme 'Democracy in the 21st Century' (CES/FEUC). Since 2007, she has lectured at the doctoral level (e.g. 'Democracy in the 21st Century' and 'Human Rights in Contemporary Societies'). She was an Invited Researcher at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN) at the University of Helsinki (2018-2020). Currently on the Editorial Board of publications in the sociology of 'race' and education in Brazil, Britain, Portugal and the United States, she has published internationally in reputed peer-reviewed journals (e.g. British Journal of Sociology of Education, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Patterns of Prejudice, and 'Race', Ethnicity and Education). She has acted as a scientific advisor on ethnic and racial equality and participated in selected expert meetings at national and international levels (e.g. UNESCO, EU Parliament hearing, Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality). She has been similarly engaged in outreach activities, particularly with schoolteachers and students, cultural mediators, social workers, and journalists.