**About the Editors**

#### **Violeta Alarc ˜ao**

Violeta Alarcao, Ph.D., has extensive experience as a medical sociologist and in clinical and ˜ epidemiological research. She was a researcher at the Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health (IMP&SP), Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) from 2004 to 2019, having participated in and coordinated several research projects. Currently, she is a Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte) of the University Institute of Lisbon and collaborates as a researcher at the Institute of Environmental Health (ISAMB-FMUL). Her research interests are multiple and interdisciplinary, having come increasingly to include topics such as sexuality, gender, and ethnicity, from a transdisciplinary perspective.

#### **S ´onia Cardoso Pintassilgo**

Sonia Cardoso Pintassilgo, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Research ´ Methods and Researcher at CIES-Iscte in the Family, Generations and Health reserach line. She is the co-coordinator of Laboratorio de Estudos Sociais sobre o Nascimento—nascer. She is a sub-director ´ of School of Sociology and Public Policies at Iscte—Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (ESPP-Iscte), ´ responsible for the advisory service to students of ESPP-Iscte and has been, in recent years, President of the Jury of the M23 of the same school. She is a member of the Plenary of the Scientific Council of Iscte and of the Scientific Committee of the Department of Social Research Methods. Since 2019, she has been part of the Scientific Committee of the special competitions for access to Iscte, in the context of which, she has been contributing to the design of training responses and the monitoring of an increasingly diverse student body, aimed at improving not only access but also the academic and social experience of students. She has conducted research regarding the Demography, Population Sociology and Sociology of Birth and Motherhood.
