Inês Tavares Author

Renato Miguel Carmo is Associate Professor (with habilitation) at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon and Researcher at Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte), Portugal. He is Director of the Inequality Observatory. His research focuses on social and spatial inequalities, poverty, welfare, labour markets, mobilities, and social capital. His recent books include Governing Solidarity in European Labour Markets (with Paulo Marques, Rui Branco and Óscar Molina, 2026), Faces of Precarity (with Joseph Choonara and Annalisa Murgia, 2022), Protest, Youth and Precariousness (with José A. Simões, 2020), Reducing Inequalities: A Challenge for the European Union? (with Cédric Rio and Márton Medgyesi, 2018).

Inês Tavares is a researcher at the Inequality Observatory and at Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte), Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Her work focuses on social inequalities, education, labour markets, poverty, and territory. Currently, she is a member of the board of the Portuguese Sociological Association.

Rodrigo Vieira de Assis is an Assistant Professor of Social Research Methods at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon and Researcher at CIES-Iscte, Portugal. He is Coordinator of the Laboratory for Methodological Innovation. His research develops a sociological perspective on worldviews and social classification systems, combining quantitative and qualitative methods with relational approaches to investigate how inequalities produce competing perceptions, practices, and struggles over legitimate understandings of contemporary social reality.