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Dr Angela Marques Filipe

Associate Professor


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Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology
Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing

Research interests

  • Social studies of science and medicine
  • Sociology, history and anthropology of health
  • Ethnography and multimodal methods
  • Global social theory and ecosocial systems theory
  • Medical-environmental humanities
  • Climate activism, feelings and futures; ecoanxiety
  • Globalisation of diagnostic psychiatry and ADHD
  • Knowledge co-production and interdisciplinary collaboration
  • Childhood, youth, disability, and social inequalities

Esteem Indicators

  • 2025 - 2027: Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow :
  • 2024: British Academy Early Career Researcher Network:
  • 2024: Wellcome's Early-Career Awards and Interviews Committee Member (UK):
  • 2024: Member of the Planetary Health Alliance:
  • 2024: Editorial Board, Sociology of Health and Illness:
  • 2023: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Advance HE UK:
  • 2022: Founding member of steering committee for Mental Health Observatory, Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health:
  • 2021: 101 Mulheres na Ciência | Women in Science, Agência Ciência Viva (honours list, 3rd ed., Portugal):
  • 2021 - 2022: Visiting Scholar, Usher Institute (CBSS), University of Edinburgh:
  • 2021 - 2022: Fellow of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, USA:
  • 2019 - 2021: Scientific editor, Transcultural Psychiatry:
  • 2019: Member and grant collaborator, Biosocial Birth Cohort Research Network, UCL:
  • 2018 - 2020: Member, Training and Research Advisory Committee, Kids Brain Health Network, Canada:
  • 2018: Rising Star Prize | Prix Relève Étoile, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (FRQSC, Canada):
  • 2015: King's College London and Elsevier Prize for Outstanding PhD Thesis (UK):
  • 2013: KCL Social Science & Public Policy Award for Postgraduate Students:
  • 2010 - 2014: Fellow of Science & Technology Foundation, FCT-Portugal:
  • 2009 - 2010: Visiting Researcher, Centre de sociologie de l'innovation, École des Mines Paris:

Publications

Book review

Chapter in book

  • Situer la vie sociale des TDAH: Entre le médical, le local et le global
    Rojas Navarro, S., & Filipe, A. M. (2023). Situer la vie sociale des TDAH: Entre le médical, le local et le global. In C. L. Vieira, C. Yves, & P. M. M. Renata (Eds.), L’attention médicamentée: La Ritaline à l’école (pp. 57-76). PUR.
  • Bioética [bioethics]
    Ferreira, P., & Filipe, A. M. (2019). Bioética [bioethics]. In ALICE Dictionary. CES/ALICE.
  • ADHD in a global context: An introduction
    Bergey, M., & Filipe, A. M. (2018). ADHD in a global context: An introduction. In M. R. Bergey, A. M. Filipe, P. Conrad, & I. Singh (Eds.), Global Perspectives on ADHD: Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries (pp. 1-8). Johns Hopkins University Press. https://doi.org/10.1353/book.56717
  • The emergence and shaping of ADHD in Portugal: Ambiguities of a diagnosis “In the making”
    Filipe, A. M. (2018). The emergence and shaping of ADHD in Portugal: Ambiguities of a diagnosis “In the making”. In M. R. Bergey, A. M. Filipe, P. Conrad, & I. Singh (Eds.), Global Perspectives on ADHD: Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries (pp. 118-137). Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Biopolitics
    Filipe, A. M. (2014). Biopolitics. In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. Editors: W. C. Cockerham, R. Dingwall, S. Quah (pp. 142-145). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118410868.wbehibs255
  • Coletivos sociais na saúde: o ativismo em torno das doenças raras e do parto em Portugal
    Filipe, A. M., Roriz, M., Neves, D., Matias, M., & Nunes, J. A. (2014). Coletivos sociais na saúde: o ativismo em torno das doenças raras e do parto em Portugal (pp. 175-194). CES Almedina.

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Supervision students