Activity within the Lecture Series of the Doctoral Programme in sociology (FEUC), in a joint organization with the Doctoral Programme in “Governance, Knowledge and Innovation” (CES/FEUC).

Bio note
Filipa Queirós is a sociologist with a PhD in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, where she co-coordinates the Ciência Viva programme at CES and the Risk Observatory - OSIRIS.

With an approach to the social studies of science and technology and the social studies of surveillance, she explores the role of science and technology in monitoring populations. Analysing the ethical, regulatory, political and social challenges associated with the use of surveillance technologies, including in the context of criminal investigation, its main focus is on issues such as: the expansion of technological surveillance and state instruments of social control; the role of the expectations of the actors responsible for innovation in shaping certain futures; the materialisation of criminal bodies; the interrelations between race, science and technology; the construction of criminal suspicion through racialisation and the exacerbation of social inequalities in the criminal justice system.

In 2021 she was honoured as part of the Foundation for Science and Technology's ‘Stimulus to scientific employment’ competition (4th Edition) in the Junior Researcher category. Since 2022 she has been carrying out research exploring the use of facial recognition technology by police authorities in Europe. In particular, she analyses how privacy, the construction of suspicion and social control are being formulated, constructed and (re)configured in the face of a global scenario of increased surveillance by states.