Profiling me ...
A Francisca é Doutorada em Antropologia Biológica pela Universidade de
Durham, no Reino Unido. Possuidora de um espírito crítico acima da média, é uma profissional extremamente competente e adulta na sua forma de trabalhar e abordar as questões que lhe são colocadas. Incansável quanto ao trabalho que realiza, é capaz de lidar com vários projectos em simultâneo com a mesma facilidade que teria ao dedicar-se a uma tarefa exclusiva, o que faz dela alguém absolutamente confiável para realizar trabalho de qualidade superior.
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Sempre pronta a ajudar quem precise de ajuda, A Francisca é dona de uma curiosidade e sensibilidade à prova de tudo. É alguém cujo olhar sobre o mundo a impede de o ver coberto de cinzas, mas sim com o brilho que todas as coisas sempre têm para quem encara a vida com a sua alegria e positividade.
..."Rose-lipped maidens, light foot lads" ..
ShortBiO
Francisca Alves Cardoso is a research fellow at CRIA - Centre for Research in Anthropology. She has worked on issues related to Portuguese Human Identified Skeletal Collections (HISC) since 2014, aiming to build a bridge between science and society on the importance of HISC, whilst considering their scientific value, social and cultural, as well as ethical implications. To continue this research she was recently awarded a newly funded project on - Life After Death: Rethinking Human Remains and Human Osteological Collections as Cultural Heritage and Biobanks (2020.01014.CEECIND / funded by FCT/Portugal). She is also the coordinator of LABOH - CRIA's Laboratory of Biological Anthropology and Human Osteology, and PI of the exploratory project - BONEMATTERS. This explores skeletal biology from a theoretical and practical approach. Its focus is on how skeletal biology is used to comprehend and reconstruct human past health and wealth, including inferring social and cultural constructs; and it highlights the various discourses associated with the study/use of skeletal biology and human skeletonized remains in science, technology and humanities and its impact in society. She encourages the use of new technologies and approaches to human biology, both past and present, and humans and environment interface. Recently, she has incorporated Social Media, Scientometrics and Big Data Analysis, applied to Biological Anthropology and Human Osteological analysis.
Research Interests
Since my PhD (2008), I have undertaken research on Human Identified Osteological Collections (HIOC). I have developed my research in the intersection of HIOC within Biological Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Medicine, and other areas of Social and Life Sciences always seeking a complementary Interdisciplinarity in the study of bone tissue and Human Osteological Remains (HOR), and how these are used for scientific production and teaching.
Following my PhD I was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in Biological Anthropology, which I developed at the Center for Research in Anthropology (CRIA). Alongside this I also lectured, as guest mostly, in various universities: 1) at the Post-Graduate Program in Anthropology at the Federal University of Pará, Brazil (2010 and 2011), being a precursor on the teaching of HOR related studies in archaeological and forensic contexts in that region of Brazil: 2) at the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon (FCSH/NOVA); 3) and lectured, as a faculty member, at the School of Psychology and Life Sciences of the University Lusófona. In all universities, I acted as a Post-doctoral, doctoral, master and undergraduate supervisor.
In June 2015 I was awarded by the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology [Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - FCT] a FCT Starting Grant, becoming the principal investigator of 2 funded projects - Shaping Voids And Building Bridges: Towards an Ethic and Legal Framework And Societal Approach to Portuguese Human Identified Skeletal and an Exploratory Project Bone Matters. Both these projects allowed for further scientific independence and the promotion of my research career by exploring the social and ethical dimension of the use of Identified Human Osteological Collections (IHOC) for research and teaching, and their development in association with teaching agendas and institutional politics. I am now, 2021, implementing a new project, deriving from the previous one - Life After Death: Rethinking Human Remains and Human Osteological Collections as Cultural Heritage and Biobanks, fitting the growing discussion associated with ethics and human remains, and the “demand” for the decolonization of museums.
In 2015 I implemented a new laboratory on the training and teaching of Biological Anthropology and Human Osteology (LABOH), in association with the research centre CRIA. Which has since become paramount in CRIA’s development, hosting young scholars and students from various countries (Portugal, UK, Italy and France). LABOH also provided the perfect setting for the implementation of the project BoneMatters, articulating and exploring skeletal biology from a theoretical and practical approach.
Degrees & Other qualifications
EDUCATION
2008: PhD in Biological Anthropology, awarded by Faculty of Social Sciences and Health, Department of Archaeology, Durham University, United Kingdom. Supervisors: Charlotte Roberts, Marga Andreu-Diaz, Pam Graves
Francisca Alves Cardoso (2008). A Portrait of Gender in Two19th / 20th Portuguese Populations. A paleopathological perspective. PhD Thesis. Durham University.
2001: Masters in Human Evolution awarded by the Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Anthropology, Coimbra University, Portugal
Francisca Alves Cardoso (2001). Problemas de Crescimento no Mesolítico Português. Contribuição de Alguns Indicadores de Stress. MSc Dissertation – Masters in Human Evolution. Departamento de Antropologia, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra.
1997: Degree in Anthropology awarded by the Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Anthropology, Coimbra University, Portugal
Francisca Alves Cardoso (1997). O Passado em Aeminium. Estudo Paleodemográfico e Paleopatológico Duma Amostra Antropológica do Convento de Santa Clara-a-Velha. Honors Degree in Anthropology. Departamento de Antropologia, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra.
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2021: Formador - Certificado Competências Pedagógicas n.º F712413/2021. Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional
2009: Credited Lecturer Scientific area of Anthropology and Biology [CCPFC/RFO-26045/09]. Conselho Científico-Pedagógico da Formação Contínua, Braga, Portugal.
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS ...... (and a few more I keep forgetting to add ...)
2020. Santander IE Best Practices in Digital Education for Teachers. Fundo de Ajuda à Educação Santander IE & IE University. Online Training.
2020. Digital Media Winter Institute 2020 - SMART Data Sprint: Digital Methods: theory-practice-critique. iNOVA Media Lab, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Lisbon, Portugal, 27 – 31 January 2020
2019. Workshop de Humanidades Digitais: Introdução à visualização de redes usando Gephi. Lab_HD – Laboratory of Digital Humanities. Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Lisbon, Portugal, 5-6 December
2019. Workshop de Humanidades Digitais: Introdução aos Sistemas de Informação Geográfica em Humanidades. Lab_HD – Laboratory of Digital Humanities. Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Lisbon, Portugal, 11 October.
2019. Workshop de Humanidades Digitais: Introdução à Análises de Redes Sociais (SNA) e à plataforma Nodegoat. Lab_HD – Laboratory of Digital Humanities. Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Lisbon, Portugal, 5-6 November.
2019. Yerun Research Workshop - Health and Ageing, Digital Health and New Technologies. NOVA Medical School, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 17-18 June.
2017. COURSE The application of the Geographical information systems /GIS) to the research in humanities. Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 22-23 May.
2012. Advanced course: “Bioestatística com o IBM SPSS Statistics”. CIAS. Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Coimbra University, Coimbra, Portugal: 19 - 28 October
2010. Internship in Paleogenetics. Laboratório de Paleogenética / Laboratório de Genética Humana e Médica Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brasil. February - March.
2009. Pre Congress Advanced Course II on Anthropology: Identification of the Living. In: XXI Congress of the International Academy of Legal Medicine Forensic. F.A.S.E. – Forensic Anthropology Society Europe. Lisbon, Portugal. 27 May.
2007. EVAN Consortium Intensive Training Course - Techniques for quantification of growth and evolution of form. EVAN - European Virtual Anthropology Network, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. 24-27 April.
2007. EVAN & Cybula Intensive Training Course - AURA C++/Cortex II hardware. EVAN - European Virtual Anthropology Network & Consortium Intensive Training Course and Cybula Ltd. Pattern Recognition Systems. University of York, York, UK. 31 May - 1 June.
1998. Intensive Course on Human Growth / Curso Intensivo de Crescimento Humano. In: Mestrado de Evolução Humana, Departamento de Antropologia, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, 18-21 November.
1998. 3rd Human Skeletal Palaeopathology. Course. Organized by the Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford & National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. University of Bradford, Bradford, UK 10-21 August.
1996. Training: Introduccio a L’Antropologia Forense. Catedra de Medicina Legal I Toxicologia, Universidade Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 24-25 October.
1996. Training: Introduccio a La Paleopatologia. Catedra de Medicina Legal I Toxicologia, Universidade Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 22-23 October.
