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RESEARCH TEAM

RESEARCH TEAM

The main goals of the project led to the constitution of a multidisciplinary team that includes historians, archaeologists, geographers, cartographers, engineers and architects. The teams propose was the development of a research methodology and data gathering that would allow considering the study area from a pluridisciplinary point of view, and consequently considering all of its geo-morphological, historical and urban planning aspects. Members of the team had different, but complementary, training, and they tried to question and interpret the historical materials (maps, written documents) submitting them to an inquiry grid that had been defined, under the appraisal of various specialized scientific readings that could maximize information which the training of a historian does not permit him/her to decipher.

One of the project’s main aims had been to integrate young researchers, through the concession of initiation research grants and, consequently, establish in the school community a research practice which should continue beyond the specific financing period. That’s one of the reasons of its articulation with the pos-graduate studies proposed by History Department (“Pos-Graduate Course and Masters in Local and Regional Studies”), through its variant in “Sea Ports Studies”.

Researchers and collaborators

   Amândio Barros (IHM-UP Researcher)
   Amélia Polónia (Department of History. Faculty of Arts. University of Porto)
   Assunção Araújo (Department of Geography. Faculty of Arts. University of Porto)
   Filomena Martins (Department of Environment and Urban Planning. University of Aveiro)
   Helena Granja (Department of Earth Sciences. University of Minho)
   Helena Osswald (Department of History. Faculty of Arts. University of Porto)
   Inês Amorim (Department of History. Faculty of Arts. University of Porto)
   João Carlos Garcia (Department of Geography. Faculty of Arts. University of Porto)
   Manuel Fernandes de Sá (Faculty of Architecture. University of Porto)
   Maria de Fátima Alves Lopes (Department of Environment and Urban Planning. University of Aveiro)
   Mário Barroca (Department of Patrimony. Faculty of Arts. University of Porto)
   Miguel Nogueira (Documentation and Information Service - Cartography. Faculty of Arts. University of Porto)
   Nicole Vareta (Department of Geography. Faculty of Arts. University of Porto)
   Veloso Gomes (Institute of Hydraulic Engineering. Department of Civil Engineering. University of Porto.)

Scholarship Students

   Elisabete Jesus
   Hugo Ribeiro da Silva
   Patrícia Pinto Costa
   Sandra Brito
   Sara Pinto