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Lusíada Research Center on Social Work and Social Intervention

CENTRO LUSÍADA DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM SERVIÇO SOCIAL E INTERVENÇÃO SOCIAL

Reference
UIDB/04624/2020
Project Start Date
2020-01-01
Project End Date
2024-12-31
Principal Investigator
Funding Program
Concurso de avaliação no âmbito do Programa Plurianual de Financiamento de Unidades de I&D (2017/2018) - Financiamento Base

Abstract

10.2 Summary in English for general dissemination purposes CLISSIS was born in 2007 in the context of Lisbon Social Work Institute assuming, since its beginning, an interdisciplinary and multi-sector approach on "Social Intervention” aiming to be a scientific reference in the knowledge on social problems, to be used in the promotion of new strategies, policies and tools on welfare and quality of life . In 2014 was evaluated by FCT, achieving classification BOM and starting to have financial support from FCT (March 2015). The Social Work Institute of Porto (ISSSP) is a participant institution of CLISSIS. Porto Social Work Institute is a participant institution as 2 researchers of Piaget Institute. Four areas emerged in our activities and they will be the framework for the Program of Activities 2018-2022. 1. SOCIAL WORK (being the only specific research unit on Social Work in Portugal). 2."SOCIAL VULNERABILITIES", “QUALITY OF LIFE” AND “SOCIAL WELFARE AND INCLUSION”. 3. “ETHNOMETHODOLOGY AND CONVERSATIONAL ANALYSIS" promoting the application of this approach in PhD researches and professional practices. A fourth area on WORK CONTEXTS, SOCIAL SUTAINABILITY AND CSR related with aging and work conditions, Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Sustainability. These are the objectives for 2018-2022 1. To increase CLISSIS scientific production 2. To strength CLISSIS involvement with social projects and organizations 3. To expand and to consolidate national partnerships 4. To consolidate and expand of international partnerships 5. To contribute to the scientific initiation of young students 6. To strength CLISSIS involvement in the post graduate education 7. To strength CLISSIS visibility inscientific and professional communities 8. To increase CLISSIS human and financial resources. To achieve these objectives: 1. A portfolio of research projects will be developed on: SOCIAL WORK (on line Museum), AGING, POVERTY CONTEXTS, VULNERABLE YOUTH, HOMELESS, ADOLESCENTS HEALTH NEEDS, PARENTAL PRACTICES, INMATES REINSERTION, CONVERSATIONAL ANALYSIS, WELL BEING IN PROFESSIONAL SETTINGS and SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY. 2. Transference of knowledge to social organizations will be promoted through the LabIS 3. Partnerships with research centres and social organizations will be extended, and a collaborative laboratory on “Social Welfare and Quality of Life” will be proposed. 4. Current international partnerships (Spain, France, Brazil and Canada) will consolidate in joint projects, namely a joint PhD Program with Normandie University. 5. Students of the graduation courses, masters and PhD Program of ISSSL and IPCE and ISSSP will be challenged to involve in our activities. 6. Journals “Intervenção Social” and “Revista de Psicologia da Criança e do Adolescente” will continue to be published, scientific events athe participation in external events will be promoted. CLISSIS members will be invited to disseminate their results in the media. 7. CLISSIS will diversify and to increase its financial and human resource 10.3 Summary in English for evaluation CLISSIS is an interdisciplinary R&D unit on "Social Work and Social Intervention” aiming to be a scientific reference in the knowledge on social problems, as tool for the promotion of new strategies, policies and programmes on welfare and quality of life. In 2014 CLISSIS was evaluated by FCT with classification BOM and started to have financial support from FCT in 2015. CLISSIS increased its team from 13 members in 2014 to 43 researchers in 2018. ISSS Porto is an active partner and we include 2 researchers of PIAGET Institute.Our strengths are: our multidisciplinary nature, with social workers, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, experts on human motility; its linkage with social and community organizations, with a clear concern of social intervention; and its linkage with several university schools. Four areas emerged in our activities and are the framework for the Program of Activities 2018-2022: SOCIAL WORK (being the only specific research unit on Social Work in Portugal). 2."SOCIAL VULNERABILITIES", “QUALITY OF LIFE” AND “SOCIAL WELFARE AND INCLUSION”. 3. “ETHNOMETHODOLOGY AND CONVERSATIONAL ANALYSIS" 4. WORK CONTEXTS, SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY AND CSR. These are our objectives and main strategies: 1.TO INCREASE CLISSIS SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION CLISSIS Program of activities is based, in first place, in a portfolio of research projects in the four scientific areas: . Project PAPESS2 Social Work History and Virtual Museum. . Project FAS - Impact of the Social Work graduation in the “Social scripts” of the student,. . Project BETTER AGING 1 - influence of physical, psychological and social factors, including intimate relationships in the elderly quality of life. . Project BETTER AGING 2 - cultural and recreational needs of elderly and impact of interactive methodologies such as music therapy and the “Seniors Universities”. . Project “AGING IN THE CONTEXT SOCIAL HOUSING QUARTERS IN PORTO” - social diagnostic of isolated elder people in social housing quarters of Porto and formal and informal networking responses, (partnership with DOMUS municipal agency) . Project APPIFAS - best practices, current political and institutional responses to homeless people in Portugal, France, Belgium, Brazil and Poland. . Project PORTUGUESE ADOLESCENTS HEALTH NEEDS CONSIDERING GENDER AND SOCIAL STATUS - a partnership with the Ministry of Health, Youth Institute and 3 NGO. . Project PARENTAL PROFILE AND CHILDREN QUALITY OF LIFE - comprehensive model on the influence of parental and family factors in children quality of life. . Project VULNERABLE YOUTH 1 - importance of sportive experience in the construction of vulnerable youth identities and in social inclusion strategies vulnerable contexts. . Project VUNERABLE YOUTH 2 - impact of a social inclusion project in the breaking of the poverty cycle of a group of vulnerable youth in Porto. . Project “INMATES - aims to study psychological characteristics of the inmates as predictors of social reinsertion. . Project ACASS Conversational Analysis Applied to Social Work and counselling practices . Project ACAA ATO Social Handicapology Applied Conversational Analysis . Project INOVSTONE Social and environmental impact of stone industry . Project “Perceptions of Business Students Towards Ethics and Sustainability” . Project BERTS - Bearing Enlightenment and Resilience Towards Sustainability 2.TO STRENGTH CLISSIS INVOLVEMENT WITH SOCIAL PROJECTS AND ORGANIZATIONS Laboratory for Socio-Territorial Innovation (LabIS) is a CLISSIS structure linking research to social projects and organizations, for transference of scientific and technical knowledge. LAbIS activities will be extended, through the networks of ISSSL, IPCE and ISSSP. 3.TO EXPAND AND TO CONSOLIDATE NATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS CLISSIS will continue to establish new partnerships with relevant Portuguese social organization and will follow the Program on Collaborative Laboratories analyzing the possibility of creation of a Collaborative Laboratory on Social Welfare and Quality of Life. 4.TO CONSOLIDATE AND EXPAND OF INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS A PhD Program on Social Work is being prepared with the University of Normandie (France). We will continue the collaboration with GIS HYBRIDA AIFRIS, DANASWAC (its annual meeting will be held in Portugal in 2019) and other international partnerships: Carlston University (Canada), University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA), Universidad Castilla La Mancha (Spain), Universidad de Sevilla (Spain), Universidad de Huelva (Spain), Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Brazil). 5.TO STRENGTH CLISSIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE POST GRADUATE EDUCATION CLISSIS will continue to host the PhD Program on Social Work of Lusíada University. We underline the important joint supervision PHD program with the University of Normandie and its linkage with GIS HYBRIDA. 6.TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE SCIENTIFIC INITIATION OF YOUNG STUDENTS Students of Lusíada Social Work and Psychology graduations and masters and Social Work PhD, and students of ISSSP will be challenged to involve in CLISSIS activities. 7.TO STRENGTH CLISSIS VISIBILITY IN A PERSPECTIVE OF OPEN SCIENCE The scientific journals “Intervenção Social” and “Revista da Psicologia da Criança e do Adolescente” will continue to be published. International Congresses of Social Work (2018, 2020 and 2022) and the five International Congress of Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence (each year) will be organized as well the participation in other national and international events. CLISSIS members will be challenged to disseminate their results in the media, through articles, and interviews 8.TO INCREASE CLISSIS HUMAN AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES CLISSIS will increase, at least, the number of integrated PHD members in one third, will host PHD and Post Doc fellowship students, and will respond to other opportunities to diversify its sustainability.

Institutions

Main Institutions

  • Centro Lusíada de Investigação em Serviço Social e Intervenção Social (CLISSIS/ULL)
  • Fundação Minerva - Cultura - Ensino e Investigação Científica (FMinerva)

Funding 317.750,00 €

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) - Portugal

317.750,00 €