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Vasco Ramos
Vasco Ramos is a sociologist with a Ph.D. (2015) from the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Currently, he is an assistant researcher at ICS-UL, working on a project titled ‘Food in Transition: Changing Food Practices during Critical Life Course Transitions’. His research interests are multiple and interdisciplinary. Primarily focusing on topics such as social inequalities, class and social mobility, he has worked in the field of sociology of families and more recently on food practices and food poverty. He recently published articles and book chapters on these subjects. Among others: ‘Food poverty and informal network support in a changing Portuguese rural area’ (2021), Sociologia Ruralis (with Monica Truninger), 61:4, pp. 759–77; ‘Children’s experiences of food poverty in Portugal: Findings from a mixed-method case study approach’ (2020), Children and Society, 34, pp. 507–20; ‘Researching children’s food practices in contexts of deprivation: Ethical and methodological challenges’ (2020), International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (with Monica Truninger, Sónia Goulart Cardoso and Fábio Rafael Augusto).
Contact: Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Av. Professor Aníbal de Bettencourt 9, 1600-189 Lisbon, Portugal.