Bruno Dionísio (Lisbon, 1979) holds a PhD in Sociology from NOVA FCSH, with a thesis on policies and devices for school and career guidance in Portugal. He is currently developing post-doctoral research, funded by a post-doc fellowship from FCT, with a project on socio-educational intervention in high vulnerability scenarios. He has been an Invited Assistant Professor at several universities and polytechnics, including at NOVA FCSH. Co-coordinated the Education Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association, where he founded and co-edited the Journal of Sociology of Education.

Research Interests:

Pragmatic Sociology. Education. School Justice. Human Vulnerabilities. Socio-educational Intervention. 

Main Projects:

• From the intimate to the public: intervening vulnerabilities (SFRH/BPD/109136/2015);
• Modernity and justice: controversies, public causes and political participation in a comparative perspective Portugal / Brazil, CAPES (Brazil) / FCT (Portugal) Agreement 2010;
• Gender, Inequality, Humiliation: Feelings of Unfairness in Schools (PIHM/GC/0085/2008);
• Observatory of the Educational Priority Intervention Territories (FSE/CED/83553/2008);
• Open Future: Uncertainty and Risk in School Choices (PTDC/CED/67590/2006).

• Dionísio, Bruno (2018), «Políticas da reversibilidade: extensões e opressões da justiça escolar», ETD – Educação Temática Digital, Campinas/SP, v. 20, nº2, pp. 455-474;
• Dionísio, Bruno, Torres, Leonor Lima, Alves, Mariana Gaio (2018), «A Sociologia da Educação em Portugal: perspetivas de futuro», Fórum Sociológico, nº 32, pp. 59-69;
• Vieira, Maria Manuel, Dionísio, Bruno, Pappámikail, Lia (2017), «Shaping possible futures in Portugal: career guidance in schools between authenticity and social justice», em T. Hooley, R. G. Sultana, R. Thomsen (eds.), Career Guidance for Social Justice. Contesting Neoliberalism. Londres: Routledge, pp. 241-253. ISBN-13: 978-1138087385. ISBN-10: 1138087386;
• Alves, Mariana Gaio, Torres, Leonor Lima, Dionísio, Bruno, Abrantes, Pedro (orgs.) (2016), A Educação na Europa do Sul – Constrangimentos e Desafios em Tempos Incertos. ISBN: 978-989-678-412-6;
• Resende, José, Dionísio, Bruno (2016), «Itinerários à luz da Sociologia Pragmática: o que os lugares comuns trazem à comunalidade escolar», Terceiro Milênio – Revista Crítica de Sociologia e Política, vol. 6, nº1, Jan-Jun 2016, pp. 198-235.