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NOVA LINCS researcher distinguished with Collaborative Research Award Santander Totta 2017
NOVA LINCS researcher from the Knowledge-Based Systems Group, João Leite, is one of the PIs of the project “The Politics of constraints: Discursive strategies in a three-level game”, winner of the 10th edition of the Collaborative Research Award Santander Totta / Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
The award-winning research seeks to determine how political decision-makers in Portugal, France and Spain legitimize their public policy choices in public opinion at a time when governments are strongly constrained by international actors, particularly by the European Union and the financial markets.
This multidisciplinary project allows the development an innovative methodology that analyzes both qualitative and quantitative argumentative discourse through the collaboration between Political Science, Argumentation, and Computer Science, jointly led by Catherine Moury (IPRI-FCSH), Dima Mohammed (IFILNOVA-FCSH) and João Leite (NOVA LINCS-FCT). The project team also includes NOVA LINCS researchers Teresa Romão and João Leitão.
The 25,000 Euro Collaborative Research Award Santander Totta/ Universidade NOVA de Lisboa aims to distinguish projects from junior researchers from at least two schools of NOVA.
The award ceremony was held at NOVA’s Rectory, with the presence of the Rector of NOVA, António Rendas, and the President of Santander Totta, António Vieira Monteiro.