神马福利影片

Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies

Co-Director of the

Email: M.D.M.Pereira@warwick.ac.uk
Room: E0.19 (Social Sciences Building)

Telephone: +44 (0) 24765 74742
Fax: +44 (0) 24765 23497

Pronouns: she/her
Please note that "Pereira" is my surname and "Maria do Mar" is my first name.

Profile

Maria do Mar is a feminist ethnographer with a background in Sociology and a commitment to interdisciplinary, and socially engaged, research and teaching. In 2014, she received the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry's Worldwide Award for Best Qualitative Book in Spanish or Portuguese (2010-2014), in recognition of 'outstanding and ground-breaking scholarship which expands not only the boundaries of academic thinking, but also the limits of our social and political imagination, enabling us to reimagine and change society'. In 2017 she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize, in recognition of her 'achievement as an outstanding researcher whose work has already attracted international attention and whose future career is exceptionally promising'. In 2018, she received the .

She joined the Department of Sociology at the 神马福利影片 in September 2013, after working as a Lecturer at the University of Leeds, as an LSE Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Excellence in Gender Research (GEXcel) at the University of 脰rebro (Sweden). She has received several awards for her teaching, including an LSE Teaching Award (2010), a Student Education Fellowship (2012) and an (2013), both at the University of Leeds, as well as an Award for Inspirational Leadership at the 神马福利影片 (2018).

Alongside her academic work, she maintains an active involvement in feminist movements at local and international, grassroots and policy levels, having been a member of the executive committee of various Portuguese and European non-governmental organisations. She is an Expert Advisor to the Portuguese Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality, and her impact work in Portugal received a Warwick award for Excellence in International Impact (2023). At Warwick, she co-led a team that received an Excellence in Gender Equality Award (2022) for their 'outstanding contribution to building more inclusive environments and experiences at the 神马福利影片'.

Research

Maria do Mar鈥檚 most well-known research project, funded by FCT, is an longitudinal ethnographic study of how academics discursively and institutionally demarcate the boundaries of 鈥榩roper鈥� scholarly knowledge. She is particularly interested in examining how scholarship in women's, gender, feminist studies (WGFS) gets positioned vis-脿-vis those boundaries. The project brings together feminist epistemology, Michel Foucault鈥檚 work and debates in science and technology studies (STS), and uses Portugal as a case study. It analyses these epistemic demarcations through a combination of qualitative methods, including participant observation in a range of sites of academic work and sociability, interviews and archival research. The main publication emerging from this project is the book , published by Routledge.

Through this epistemologically-grounded ethnographic study, Maria do Mar has proposed an innovative framework for the study of negotiations of what she calls the 鈥渆pistemic status鈥� of WGFS, i.e. the degree to which, and terms in which, WGFS knowledge claims are recognised as fulfilling the requisite criteria to be considered credible and authoritative. Her mapping of these negotiations has made valuable contributions to our understanding of the nature and effects of epistemic hierarchies of disciplines and countries, the relationship between epistemic boundary-work and contemporary changes in the political economy of science and higher education, and power relations within academic institutions and communities.

Maria do Mar has also conducted research on the negotiation of gender and sexuality among children and young people in schools, for which she received the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry's Worldwide Award for Best Qualitative Book in Spanish or Portuguese (2010 - 2014). For more on this work, click here.

She has also written, for example, on feminist methodologies and pedagogies, contemporary transformations in higher education and science policy in Europe, gender equality policy, men鈥檚 discourses about masculinity and fatherhood, and issues of language difference and translation in social science research.

Key Publications

Books

• Pereira, Maria do Mar (2017), , Routledge.

• Pereira, Maria do Mar (2012), (Doing Gender in the Playground: the Negotiation of Gender in Schools), Lisboa: Imprensa de Ci锚ncias Sociais.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Pereira, Maria do Mar (2025),"", The Sociological Review, 73 (6), 1179-1200.
• Pereira, Maria do Mar (2022), , Gender, Place and Culture, 29 (7), 983-1008.
• Pereira, Maria do Mar (2021), , Gender, Work & Organization, 28 (S2), 498-509.
• Pereira, Maria do Mar (2019),, ex aequo, 39, 171-186.
• Pereira, Maria do Mar (2019), , Science, Technology, & Human Values, 44 (2), 338-365.
• Pereira, Maria do Mar (2016), , Women's Studies International Forum, 54, 100-110.
• Pereira, Maria do Mar (2015), , 鈥�Sociology, 49 (2), 287-304.

• Pereira, Maria do Mar (2014), , Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 39 (3), 627-657.

• Pereira, Maria do Mar (2012), "芦", Feminist Theory, 13 (3), 283-303.

• Pereira, Maria do Mar (2012), 鈥溾��, European Journal of Women鈥檚 Studies. 19 (1), 128-135.

Book Chapters

• Pereira, Maria do Mar (2020), in R. M. Carmo, I. Tavares and A. F. C芒ndido (eds.), Um Olhar Sociol贸gico sobre a Crise Covid-19, Lisboa: Observat贸rio das Desigualdades (CIES-ISCTE), 199 – 232.
• Pereira, Maria do Mar (2013), 鈥�On Being Invisible and Dangerous: The Challenges of Conducting Ethnographies in/of Academia鈥� in S. Strid and L. Husu (eds.), Gender Paradoxes in Changing Academic and Scientific Organisation(s) (GEXcel Reports, Volume XVII), 脰rebro: University of 脰rebro.

• Pereira, Maria do Mar (2013), 鈥淲omen鈥檚 and Gender Studies鈥� in Mary Evans and Carolyn Williams (eds.), , London: Routledge.

Policy Reports

• Santos, Ana Cristina and Pereira, Maria do Mar (2013), , European Parliament: Brussels.

Teaching

Maria do Mar is passionate about teaching, and is committed to emancipatory, student-centred and research-based education, inspired by critical and feminist pedagogies.

Maria do Mar's modules at Warwick have included ; ; and SO9E3: Feminist and Queer Thinking: Contemporary Challenges.

She also regularly guest lectures on gender studies and feminist theory and epistemology at undergraduate and postgraduate level at universities in Portugal, Finland, Belgium, Croatia, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK.

In 2010, she was awarded an LSE Teaching Award, in recognition of excellence in postgraduate teaching. In 2013, she was awarded a (USEF) and the , both at the University of Leeds.

As part of her USEF, Maria do Mar worked with three students (Anna Colgan, Eleanor Broadbent and Freya Potter) to create an innovative web-based platform providing resources and support on . You can read more about the project .

She has also contributed to the design and teaching of international summer schools in gender studies, such as the European Union-funded intensive graduate programme 鈥淧ractising Interdisciplinarity in European Gender Studies鈥�, hosted by Radboud University – Nijmegen (2008). She has (co-)authored a series of conference papers and articles on these and other teaching initiatives (see list here).

Maria do Mar is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and has been involved in pedagogical review and innovation internationally, having contributed to the drafting of the .

Maria do Mar is regularly invited by national and international professional associations to deliver training sessions for PhD students and Early-Career Scholars in Gender Studies. For recordings of some of these sessions, see below:

• - session delivered as part of the Atgender Spring Conference (May 2020)
• - webinar organised by the Gender and Education Association and the Feminist Studies Association (March 2021)

PhD Supervision

Maria do Mar has significant experience of undergraduate and postgraduate supervision on a range of topics in Sociology and Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies, and is passionate about research-based learning and supporting students and emerging scholars as they develop their own ideas and projects.

She is keen to work with doctoral candidates, visiting PhD students and visiting postdoctoral scholars studying gender, sexuality, science and technology studies, feminist theory and epistemology, feminist methodologies, ethnographic methods, youth and childhood, schools and higher education, feminist pedagogy, feminist movements and activism, and the institutionalisation of women鈥檚 and gender studies.

She is also able to provide supervision in Portuguese and expertise on Portuguese-speaking contexts (particularly Portugal and Brazil) to students and visiting scholars coming from, or working on, Lusophone (i.e. Portuguese-speaking) countries.

If you are interested in discussing PhD supervision, please get in touch with Maria do Mar via email on m dot d dot m dot pereira at warwick dot ac dot uk, sending details of your research interests and proposed topic of study.

Maria do Mar is currently supervising the following PhD projects:

• Nick Cherryman (with Cath Lambert)
• Carys Hill (with Cath Lambert)
• Mara Silva Hope (with Nickie Charles)

Past PhD students include:

• Dr Ruth Pearce (with Deborah Lynn Steinberg): "(Im)possible Patients? Negotiating discourses of trans health in the UK"
• Dr Emma Beckett (with Deborah Lynn Steinberg): "Sub-cultural Paradoxes: Women Tattoo Artists Negotiating Gender, Capital, Labour and Resistance"
• Dr Elizabeth Ablett (with Nickie Charles): "Practising politics and negotiating identities: Exploring (re)productions of, and challenges to, inequalities in English local politics"
• Dr Sara Bamdad (with Caroline Wright and Deborah Lynn Steinberg): "The Everyday Life of Gender, Religion and Medicine: an Ethnography of an Infertility Treatment Clinic in Iran"
• Dr Demet G眉l莽i莽ek (with Nickie Charles): "芦Ghosts do not Exist, but Nations do禄: Articulations of Gender, Modernisation and Nationalism in Ottoman Muslim Women's Writing"
• Dr Sarah Handyside (with Cath Lambert): "Virtual Potentialities: Teenagers' Stories about Social Media"
• Dr Marcel Obst (with Sivamohan Valluvan and Cath Lambert): "Nature, Nationalism and Affect in Spanish Anti-Gender Narratives"
• Dr Romain Chenet (with Briony Jones and Caroline Wright): "Pursuing Transformation in Post-2015 Development Policy Discourse"
• Dr Rohini Sen (with Jayan Nayar and Raza Saeed): "Dark Hope and Storytelling: Narrative Explorations of TWAIL Teaching"
• dipbuk Panchal (with John Solomos)

Media and Impact

Maria do Mar has been interviewed for Portuguese and UK print, radio and television media on a range of themes, including:

• gender inequality
• children and young people
• the negotiation of gender and sexuality in schools
• the representation of gender in the media
• feminist activism and social movements in Portugal and the UK
• the impacts of the financial crisis and of austerity policies on women and young people in Portugal and the UK
• the London riots of August 2011

For examples of these interviews, see (online media, in English), (television, in Portuguese), (television, in Portuguese), (print media, in Portuguese), Expresso (print media, in Portuguese), (radio, in Portuguese), and 搁茅蹿辞谤尘别 (print media, in French). For longer interviews with Maria do Mar, see the podcasts (in Portuguese) and (in English).

She was recognised by Ci锚ncia Viva in 2021 as one of the leading . She is featured in the documentary film and TV series (2020), directed by Raquel Freire and commissioned by RTP to portray the diverse experiences of women in contemporary Portugal.

She is regularly invited to act as expert advisor to national and international bodies, including the European Parliament, the European Commission, the European Institute for Gender Equality, the Portuguese Parliament, and the Portuguese National Federation of Youth Associations. In 2017, she became an official Expert Advisor to the Portuguese Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality. Her impact work in Portugal received a Warwick award for Excellence in International Impact (2023)

Other Professional Activities

Maria do Mar holds a PhD in Gender from the Gender Institute at LSE, and a BSc (Distinction) in Sociology from the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL, Portugal). She was an editor of the journal and sits on the International Advisory Board of the journal . She was also a member of the Executive Comittee of the , and coordinated , the association's network of students and early career scholars.

She was one of the founders and conveners of the , a co-founder and member of the (ISCSP - Universidade T茅cnica de Lisboa; Portugal), an associate researcher at the (CEMRI - Universidade Aberta; Portugal), and a member of the Advisory Board of the Portuguese .

Maria do Mar has been actively involved in several European Gender Studies networks, including (funded by the Swedish Riksbanken Jubileumsfonds), ATHENA: Advanced Thematic Network in European Gender Studies (funded by the European Commission) and .

She has presented over 100 papers at national and international conferences, and is regularly invited to act as a keynote speaker.