José Morais

Full Member

José Carlos Pereira de Morais received his PhD in Sociology from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto in 2010. He is an associate professor at the Higher Polytechnic Institute of Gaya. Since 2012 he has been director of the Journal of Psychology, Education and Culture, chairing the organising committees of the four international congresses promoted by the journal (2013, 2015, 2019 and September 2022). He was also president of the organising committee of the ISPGAYA22 international congress, held in September and dedicated to the theme of Sustainability. In terms of scientific research, it is worth mentioning the coordination of the Research and Development Centre-ISPGAYA and also the participation as a researcher at CEOS.PP (Centre for Organisational and Social Studies of the Polytechnic of Porto). From 2014 to the present, he has been president of the Scientific-Technical Council of ISPGAYA, conciliating activities in institutional management bodies with his teaching activity in higher education, which already has 25 years, starting in 1997, after completing his Master of Sociology in the area of Cultural Associativism, also from FLUP, UP. Since April 2022 he is a technical and scientific consultant in the area of Sociology in the Ecomuseum of Vale do Neiva project, in Barcelos. He teaches courses in bachelor's and master's degrees, in the area of Social Sciences, Humanities and Research Methodologies. He develops with regularity the orientation activity of master's dissertations. Since September 2017, he has regularly participated in international collaboration programmes - ERASMUS- involving universities in Poland, Finland, Belgium and Lithuania.