Alice Delerue Matos

Academic qualifications: PhD in Social Sciences – Demography, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), 2007

Current professional situation: Assistant Professor at the Sociology Department of the University of Minho

Current interests of investigation: Sociology of Ageing; Intergenerational Family Relationships; Poverty and social exclusion of the elderly.

Awards and other distinctions: Teaching incentive award by the ICS – University of Minho, 2009

Recent Publications:

DELERUE MATOS, Alice e NEVES, Rita Borges (2013), “New inter-generational relationships: Elderly people in host families: An experience from Portugal. Les nouvelles relations intergénérationnelles des personnes âgées en famille d’accueil: Une expérience portugaise”, Retraite et société 2013/1 (n° 64): 69-83.

DELERUE MATOS, Alice e Schouten, Maria Johanna (ed.) (2012), Saúde: sistema, mediações e comportamentos, Editora Humus, ISBN 978-989-8139-73-3.

DELERUE MATOS, Alice e NEVES, Rita Borges (2012), “Understanding adolescent grandchildren’s influence on their grandparents”, in Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen (ed.), Contemporary Grandparenting. Changing Family Relationships in Global Contexts, Policy Press, 203-224.

DELERUE MATOS, Alice e NEVES, Rita Borges (2011), “Foster care: new families for frail older adults?”, ESA 2011, Genebra.

Institutional Link: http://www.sociologia.uminho.pt/2256.page

Link for curriculum vitae: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=6035122465863155