Centro de estudos sobre a Mudança
Socioeconómica e o Território

Leonor Matos Silva is the Co-PI of the project WomArchStruggle - Women Architects in Former Portuguese Colonial Africa: Gender and Struggle for Professional Recognition (1953-1985). She completed her PhD in 2019 at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), focusing on the interplay between pre- and post-revolutionary architectural education (the Lisbon case). She was then a post-doctoral researcher in the MCMH - Middle-class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa, and Asia project. Her latest article "Women’s Absence from the Public Sphere: Gender Inequality in Portuguese Architecture Schools” is published in the journal Postcolonial Directions in Education (University of Malta). Leonor is a member of the COST-Action Making Young Researchers’ Voices Heard for Gender Equality (VOICES) and coordinated the international seminar Gender Struggles in Architecture, Colonialism, and Housing, held in January 2024 in Lisbon. She was chair and speaker at the SAH Virtual 2024 Conference and has been accepted to present at the SAH Conference 2025 and the 2025 Annual Meeting of the ACSA.