Mission
SocioDigital Lab for Public Policy promotes a unique interdisciplinary approach to the study of public policy and contributes to the resolution of contemporary societal problems and global challenges. The complexity of the modern world requires new approaches integrating social sciences and digital technologies to address societal problems and contribute to public policy. Six research units with scientific expertise in diverse and complementary fields in the social sciences and digital technologies have, thus, joined together to address those issues. These research units consist of qualified experienced teams with know-how in the fundamentals, analysis, implementation and evaluation of public policies.
Strategic Vision
The SocioDigital Lab for Public Policy promotes an interdisciplinary approach to address the scientific, social, economic, environmental, health, cultural and political challenges confronting society, promoting a close association between social sciences and digital technologies to study and impact public policy, that can provide fresh understanding and knowledge to address society’s pressing challenges, with concern for societal impact and business value.
The SocioDigital Lab creates a durable interdisciplinary approach to study contemporary societies. It is our understanding that contemporary social problems and global challenges can only be addressed if there is a real integration of different fields to study, analyse and provide evidence-based and data-based solutions to policy-makers. This on-going resilient interdisciplinary work between the social sciences and digital technologies finds expression in national and international projects, involving multidisciplinary teams and interdisciplinary perspectives in an integrative manner to address the challenges of the 21st century.
The SocioDigital Lab builds on past collaborations and brings together six research centres at Iscte – BRU, CEI, CIES, CIS, DINÂMIA’CET and ISTAR – working together and conveying their synergies and disciplinary expertise to create and sustain a new generation of interdisciplinary scientific contributions between the social sciences and digital. This collaboration based on new approaches seeks to ensure that technologies work with and for society to tackle pressing challenges.
The SocioDigital Lab for Public Policy is organized around five interdisciplinary thematic lines:
• Regenerative territories for carbon neutrality
• Social inclusion, equality and citizenship
• Societal health
• Global governance
• Digital transformation and public policies
R&D Units
The SocioDigital Lab for Public Policy is an alliance of six Research Centres from Iscte, with research in several areas in the social sciences and digital technologies, and addressing topics directly relevant for public policy.
Research Groups
BRU-Iscte
• Finance
• Organizational Behavior and Human Resources
CEI-Iscte
Centre for International Studies
• Institutions, Governance and International Relations
• Societal and Development Challenges
CIES-Iscte
Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology
• Inequality, Work and Social Well-Being
• Migration, Mobility and Ethnicity
• Family, Generations and Health
• Historical Dynamics and Global Integration of the World
CIS-Iscte
Center for Psychological Research and Social Intervention
• Behavior, Emotion and Cognition
• Community, Education and Development
• Health for All: a psychosocial approach to health
• Psychology of Societal Change
DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte
Centre for the Study of Socioeconomic Change and the Territory
• Governance, Economy and Citizenry
ISTAR-Iscte
Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Centre
• Software Systems Engineering
• Complexity and Computational Modelling
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