Verónica Policarpo

Verónica Policarpo is a human-animal scholar and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, where she currently coordinates project ABIDE – Animal Abidings: Recovering from Disasters in More-than-Human Communities, for which she was awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council to study how animals recover from disasters, in particular wildfires. At ICS-ULisboa, she also coordinates the Human-Animal Studies Hub, and the the post-graduate course “Animais e Sociedade”. Veronica holds a PhD in Social Sciences (Sociology) and her current research interests are focused on human-animal relationships. Former projects include “Liminal Becomings: Reframing Human–Animal Relations in Natural Disasters“, on animals in disasters; and “CLAN: Children-Animals’ Friendships: challenging boundaries between humans and non-humans in contemporary societies“, on children and companion animals.