Madalena Cid Teles
Biography
Madalena Cid Teles is a socio-legal researcher at the Permanent Observatory of Justice (OPJ) within the Center for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra (UC). She began her academic journey in law, completing her undergraduate studies at UC's Faculty of Law in 2020, before transitioning to sociology, where she earned her Master's degree from the Faculty of Economics in 2023. Now, as a PhD student in Sociology at UC, funded by FCT, she continues her research in the sociology of law, focusing on issues related to child welfare and protection systems. By employing a critical legal studies and feminist intersectional perspective to bridge the gap between "law in action" and "law in books," Madalena's research strives to uncover and challenge the disparities within legal frameworks and their real-world applications.