Wednesday, 9/18/2019
Isabel Estrada Carvalhais, a faculty member of the
Department of International Relations and Public Administration and a
member of the Research Centre in Political Science of the School of
Economics and Management of UMinho, has taken office as a Member of the
European Parliament on 16 of September 2019.
The newly elected Euro-MP, from Braga, assumes the
effective position in the Committee on Agriculture and the substitute position
for the Committees on Fisheries and Regional Development. She will also be an
effective member of the delegation for the relations with the US and a
substitute for the Delegation for the relations with Canada.
The European Parliament is headquartered in Strasbourg,
consisting of 751 MEPs, where Portugal is represented by 21 elements, 9 of whom
are from the Socialist Party. However, there is also work being held in
Brussels, where the specialised parliamentary committees are usually convened,
as well as in Luxembourg, the headquarters of the Secretary-General.
Isabel Estrada Carvalhais is a Professor of Political
Science and International Relations at the School of Economics and Management,
University of Minho. She holds a PhD in Sociology (University of Warwick, UK),
an MSc. in Sociology (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and a BSc. in
International Relations (University of Minho, Portugal).
He was a member of several research projects, namely
"The electoral participation of Portugal's foreigners", conducted by
the International Organisation for Migrations in Portugal; Divpol, funded by
the European Fund for the Integration. She is a member specialising in
non-academic projects and a member of the Transnational Steering Committee in
the "Pathways to Parental Leadership" project, conducted by the
Immigrant Council of Ireland.
Recently (2016), she worked on the topic of European
Crisis and Euroscepticism, analysed from a political perspective specifically
on the Portuguese case, in the context of two European projects, one conducted
by the Latvian Institute of International Affairs and another by the French Institut
Français de Relations Internationales.
Gabinete de Comunicação
Escola de Economia e Gestão
Universidade do Minho
Telefone: 253 604541
e-mail: gci@eeg.uminho.pt
