Elsa Fontainha

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Prof.

Elsa

Fontainha

Portugal

Area of expertise, interest, main activities...: 

work-life balance, household economics, household finance

About you (please use English): 

Prof. Elsa Fontainha holds a PhD in economics. Currently she is the Team Leader at ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa of the Horizon2020 Project Promoting gender balance and inclusion in research, innovation and training (PLOTINA), Grant Agreement: 666008 (H2020-GERI-2014-2015/H2020-GERI-2014-1). The PLOTINA Project (2016-2020) is coordinated by the University of Bologna. Main research interests: well-being, gender, and household economics and finance. She has a long and rich experience on interdisciplinary and international research collaboration and coauthoring. She received a Distinguish Scholarships Scheme (2013) from the Information School of University of Sheffield (UK). She spent her sabbatical at St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada. She was a recipient of a Canadian Studies Faculty Research Award. She has been the coordinator/team member of multi-institutional and interdisciplinary projects funded by the British Council (2009–2011), the International Council for Canadian Studies (2008).She is co-editor and author of several entries in Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (10 volumes), Springer. She teaches and is responsible for the course of Economics of Household and Household Finance since 2013/2014. Her publications include scholarly articles in: Review of Economics of the Household, Journal of Economics of Ageing, Journal of Informetrics, Information Research, Library High Tech, Technological and Economic Development of Economy, eLearning Papers - European Commission, European Review of Labour and Research, and Cadernos Sociedade e Trabalho and forthcoming in . She has also published in Thomson Reuters indexed books: (2010) Learning and Instruction in the Digital Age, Springer; (2010) Enterprise Information Systems, Springer; (2011) Information Systems and Technologies; (2014) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, Springer; and Procedia Technology, Elsevier.She co-authored two economics textbooks and some book chapters.

Scientific discipline: 

Social sciences, Economics and business, Interdisciplinary

Stakeholder group: 

Science stakeholders, Teachers, educators, learners, Scientists & Researcher, Policy stakeholders, Science, technology and innovation policy makers, Gender equality stakeholders, Gender in science offices and committees

Contact details

Spoken languages: 

English

French

Portuguese, Brazil

Portuguese, Portugal

Spanish

City: 

Lisbon

Street: 

ISEG, Rua Miguel Lupi 20, office 514

ZIP: 

1249-078 LISBOA

Phone: 

+351 213925993

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Would you like to form part of the GenPORT Gender Expert database?: 

Yes

Area of Gender Expertise: 

Gender in business and management

Gender in economics

Innovation and diversity (e.g. gender)

Country coverage: 

Portugal, EU countries, some African Countries

Skills and track record: 

-Currently she is the Team Leader at ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa of the Horizon2020 Project Promoting gender balance and inclusion in research, innovation and training (PLOTINA), Grant Agreement: 666008 (H2020-GERI-2014-2015/H2020-GERI-2014-1). The PLOTINA Project (2016-2020) is coordinated by the University of Bologna. -Work-Life balance and Time allocation (co-autored book in Portuguese) -Work-Life balance and well being indicator (collaboration with Statistics Portugal) -Labour market, financial decisions and gender (manuscript under submission) -Collaborative research and gender ( co-authored article with Tanya Araujo published in January 2017) -Women Entrepreneurship (manuscript under revision)