She holds a PhD in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra (specializing in Labor Relations, Social Inequalities and Trade Unionism). She is also a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra (CES-UC).

She was involved in the REB-UNIONS (Rebuilding Trade Union Power in the age of austerity: a review of three sectors / CES) and REVAL (From internal devaluation to revaluation of work: the case of Portugal / CES – Dinâmia/CET) projects, where she worked as a researcher.

She has developed her research in the area of ​​industrial relations, particularly on collective labor relations, collective bargaining and trade unionism, giving emphasis, in the latter case, to studies on trade union revitalization.

dora.fonseca@colabor.pt