Ana Sofia Ribeiro

• PhD in Education, University of Bielefeld
• PostDoc Position at University of Lisbon

This article focuses on young people not in employment or education in rural areas of Portugal. It highlights the specific vulnerability of this group, and its conceptual focus is underpinned by the debate between the capabilities approach and structural ramifications in the labour market. It presents a case study analysis based on an employability...

Although the relationship with the labour market is central in framing youth experiences, precariousness and vulnerability extend beyond it. In a context of polycrisIs and uncertainty about the future, this article focuses on the life trajectories of young NEETs. Between October 2022 and January 2024, focus groups and in-depth interviews were held...

Resumo A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo geral o mapeamento e caraterização da Garantia Jovem direcionada aos NEET em Portugal entre 2014-2022. A estratégia metodológica passa pela utilização de dados secundários oriundos do IEFP, que controla o número de integrações e exclusões desta política pública para os NEET. A demonstração empírica é fei...

The NEET phenomenon in southern Europe is particularly alarming. Most studies have focused on analysing the socio-demographic characteristics of NEET and policies directed towards them, but more research is needed regarding the psychological aspects that underlie this condition. This paper, grounded in the bioecological model, aims to analyse the p...

The Covid-19 pandemic provoked critical changes to welfare in Europe, requiring the dematerialisation of programmes and services while relying mainly on remote support. This study aims to present insights into how European public employment services have coped and adapted to the pandemic challenges, particularly regarding the digitalisation and del...

Background: There has been a growing interest in environmental education programs to improve environmental awareness and behavior change among school-aged youth. Yet, assessment of the approaches aligned with citizen science principles emphasizing community participation and empowerment is scarce. The present study aimed to explore the acceptabilit...

This edited collection presents stories of children and young people’s entanglements with times of ongoing crisis in the Anthropocene. The authors use biographical narratives and arts-based methodologies to further the discussion surrounding young people’s well-being, resilience, and enterprise. Through these stories, they seek to critically engage...

Public health measures adopted due to the COVID-19 pandemic made emergency remote learning the designated higher education delivery model under lockdowns, causing several transformations in the sector. Based on an online survey of 1009 students aged between 16 and 24 years old during 2021, this article examines the perceptions and experiences of di...

Governments introduced protective public health measures, including lockdowns and social distancing, in response to the unprecedented global crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. For young people, such measures are particularly painful, as they entail an interruption of their transitions to adulthood, which generally require taking up thei...

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Results from an online survey with about 8000 respondents concerning their living conditions under the second COVID 19 lockdown between February-Match 2021 in Portugal.

In the aftermath of catastrophes, art based participatory research has proven to be a useful tool for evoking emotions and knowledge in affected children, as well as for informing risk education and recovery psychology practices. Framed by disaster risk reduction and environmental philosophy, this article analyses a sample of drawings produced by s...

There is growing international concern about the impact of natural hazards and disasters on children and young people. However, very little research has explored children’s views of their wildfire experiences. Using creative methods with two groups of primary school children from an inland area, this qualitative study examines Portuguese children’s...

Rationale Disasters, either of natural or social origin, are increasingly more common all over the world, originating not only concern and fear, but also questioning and rearrangement. In Portugal, the 2017 summer brought wildfires of an unforeseen scale that killed over 100 people, wounded many and destructed the industrial and ecological system o...

Policy brief focusing the participation of children and young people in disaster risk reduction in Portugal.

International agencies and scientific research have been calling for the inclusion of children in disaster preparedness and risk reduction, to hear their voices in order to address their specific needs and vulnerabilities and harness their capabilities in terms of building community resilience. This article assesses the roles ascribed to children i...

The capability approach is a normative framework that seeks to evaluate the quality of life through the evaluation of individual freedoms. It is behind the Human Development Index and it is increasingly applied in educational research, mostly in topics related to inequalities and curriculum development. This chapter provides an overview of the use...

The economic crisis that hit Portugal in 2010, and the consequent International Monetary Fund intervention have called for austerity measures that affect the country’s welfare state and required severe cuts in higher education funding, which are shifting higher education costs from public to private. While such cuts affect all students, first gener...

This paper aims to provide a critical account of the impact of the economic crisis on the public higher education sector in Portugal by analyzing the biographical case of one particular first generation student, whose narrative mirrors the precarious and unstable condition of Portuguese students. It argues that the current state redistribution poli...