Susana de Noronha

During adolescence, as an art & design student, the detailed contour of a naked tree was a kind of self-portrait, a personal signature where friends and colleagues could recognise the trace of my right hand. Somehow, drawing defined who I was and what I could become! This is the reason why I chose it for my personal logo. A ramification is a process of becoming, of loss, stasis, and growth, a metamorphosis towards an uncertain future form. All self-portraits are thus unfinished!

Susana de Noronha: Anthropologist, PhD in Sociology, Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal. Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Minho, Portugal. Published illustrator and lyricist/poet, enhancing art-based scientific methodologies with metaphor and imagination.

She is a founding member of AIDA - Social Sciences Research Network on Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Algorithms. Additionally, she holds the position of Ambassador for Portugal for The Association for the Study of Death and Society, based in the UK.

Previous Positions: (2020-01/2022) Elected Co-coordinator of the Science, Economy and Society Research Group (NECES) and Member of the Standing Committee of CES Scientific Board.

Awards & Distinctions: Women in Science 2023, by Ciência Viva - National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture; 30 Years, 30 Anthropologists (2023), by Department of Life Sciences (DCV) U.Coimbra; 2007 CES Award for Young Portuguese-speaking Social Scientists by CES, U.Coimbra; and 2003 Bernardino Machado Award for Anthropology (Best Student), by the Faculty of Science and Technology, U.Coimbra.

Research Interests: Art, Science and Technology Studies (ASTS); Medical Anthropology/Sociology; Anthropology/Sociology of Art; Material Culture Studies; Women's Studies; Art+Science Methodologies (Creative Ethnographic Drawing; Creative Writing for Social Science).

• my email | susananoronha@ces.uc.pt

• my latest article | Noronha, Susana de (2022) “Witchcraft and cancer in the narrative of a Portuguese woman”, Medical Anthropology Vol.41(2):243-255.

• my 3rd research monograph | Noronha, Susana de (2019) Cancro Sobre Papel: estórias de oito mulheres portuguesas entre palavra falada, arte e ciência escrita. Coimbra: Almedina.

• current personal project | Social Science and Art: study in the field of cancer disease (Studies on Science, Economy and Society), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) Ref. DL57/2016/CP1341/CT0012.