Jorge Manuel Leitão Ferreira

ISCTE-IUL - Professor and Researcher

Jorge M. L. Ferreira, Doctor of Social Work in the specialty of Social Work, Social Policies and Society. Lecture Professor at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon. Director of Degree and Doctoral program in Social Work. Deputy director of the Department of Political Science and Public Policy. Secretary of REdidi - Teaching Network and Research in Childhood. Research Center: CIES – IUL (Research Center Sociology Studies – University Institute of Lisbon). Research line: Political and Citizenship. Areas of Research: Theoretical Investigation (Epistemology, theory of social work and two interdisciplinary knowledge) and Applied Research (Social Work Practice in Context Institutional, Community and Family under the Child, Family, Adults in vulnerable social protection system social and social policies). Have several scientific publications and communications on national and international seminars, conferences in the field of Social Work. Member of the editorial board of several National and international journals of Social Work.