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Welcome to the CIHMeSS!

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to this space dedicated to the exploration and understanding of history and memory in Social Work. This portal is an invitation to reflect, learn and connect with the past and present, to explore the social work History, uncover documents and testimonies, and build bridges between different generations.

The Interpretation Center is open to all researchers, teaching students and professionals and hopes to provide an enriching and inspiring experience. As part of this community, you will have the opportunity to delve into the roots, challenges and achievements of this scientific area. We work to ensure that this portal is also an indispensable and unavoidable instrument of participation and consultation for the entire scientific community.

CIHMeSS is part of the Lusiada Research Center on Social Work and Social Intervention(CLISSIS).

Introduction

The Centre for Interpretation, History and Memory in Social Work is part of the Lusíada Centre for Research in Social Work (CLISSIS) [...]

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Mission

The Centre for Interpretation, History and Memory in Social Work's mission is to highlight the importance of safeguarding heritage and disseminating it [...]

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Objectives

The CIHMeSS aims to conserve, safeguard and study the collections received in the context of the first school of Social Work and its agents, among other objectives.

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Housewives' course (1949-1944)

BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY, 13x18 cm

Family educator Maria Onélia Levy Fernandes and students from the housewives' course.

Finalist retreat (22 May 1941)

BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY, 6x9 cm

Countess of Rilvas, Countess of Almoster, alumni and students in the garden of Casa de São Mamede at the end of the finalists' retreat

Students and tutors on the balcony of the Institute of Social Work's headquarters

BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY, 8x12 cm

Marie-Thérèse Lévêque and tutor Maria Carlota Lobato Guerra with the 3rd year students on the balcony of the Institute of Social Work's headquarters.

Team

The CIHMeSS team relies on the support and collaboration of various researchers, taking into account the areas of intervention.

Teresa Rodrigues da Silva

COORDINATOR AND INTEGRATED RESEARCHER

Director and professor at the Lisbon Institute of Social Work • Lusíada University - Lisbon

Fabrícia de Castro Maciel

INTEGRATED RESEARCHER

Professor at the Universidade Aberta

Helder de Albuquerque Machado

CURATOR AND COLLABORATING RESEARCHER

Director of the Department of Culture, Knowledge and Information • Lusíada University - Lisbon

Paulo Amaral Soares

CURATOR AND COLLABORATING RESEARCHER

Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Knowledge and Information • Lusíada University - Lisbon

Priority Intervention Areas

Today, in the context of the information explosion, the automation of documentary processes and the valorization of the person in the information retrieval process, highlight the importance and relevance of these areas for the study and understanding of humanity's past.

Museum

Safeguarding artifacts and promoting the history of Social Work in Portugal, through museological processes that make it possible to boost communication and knowledge.

Marie-Thérèse Lévêque (1941-1942) at the window of her home in Campo de Santana. (© Minerva Foundation)

Library

Storage and retrieval of information, taking into account the description and access to the largest Social Work library in Portugal, to promote research and knowledge.

Oral History

To tell the history of Social Work in Portugal, through autobiographical narratives that make it possible to understand and ensure the legacy of its main players.

Transmitting and promoting the knowledge resulting from the heritage studied

Reveal meanings and interactions beyond simple information, using the greatest possible diversity of means of expression (creation of scientific, cultural and educational products).

Information has an added potential value that will be transmitted to it by the direct action of its curator and by the information curation process. In this way, the information curator creates new contexts and added value. Where previously there were only documents with evidential value, there is now innovation and inspiration.

Paulo Amaral Soares

CURATOR AND COLLABORATING RESEARCHER

The period between 1935 and 1955 was a time of affirmation and diffusion of the teaching and practice of Social Work, both nationally and internationally. Gradually, the Institute of Social Work unveiled and integrated its teaching programmes and methodologies, opening up and defining a field of knowledge, at the same time as the first graduates took up positions in key institutions in Portuguese society

Teresa Rodrigues da Silva

COORDINATOR AND INTEGRATED RESEARCHER

The challenge is complex, which is why the approach focuses on the life cycle of curation and how all the actions have been identified, planned and implemented in order to guarantee the maintenance of the authenticity, reliability, integrity and usability of the digital object

Helder de Albuquerque Machado

CURATOR AND COLLABORATING RESEARCHER

Archives and Collections

The CIHMeSS receives, inventories, organises, processes and makes available documentary nuclei and personal archives of relevance to the history of Social Work.

Archive and Library of the Lisbon Institute of Social Work

Ca. 20.000 DOCUMENTS

Collection of library and archive documents from the first school of Social Work in Portugal.

Library of Maria Augusta Negreiros and David Miranda

Ca. 10.000 DOCUMENTS

A collection of documents from the private library of Maria Augusta Negreiros and David Miranda.

Maria Augusta Negreiros Documentary Centre

Ca. 2.000 DOCUMENTS

A collection of personal documents from the archive of Maria Augusta Negreiros.

Maria Raquel Ribeiro Documentary Centre

Ca. 5.000 DOCUMENTS

A collection of personal documents from the archive of Maria Raquel Ribeiro.

Activities

Present the programmes, objectives and main activities planned annually by the CIHMeSS, as well as the resources needed to carry them out.

To provide appropriate content and media for the development of information literacy, within the scope of CIHMeSS's activities, and to participate actively in the process of building knowledge.

Contribute to publicising activities and events that have been highlighted in the media.

Sharing the activities and events organised by CIHMeSS, as well as by other partner organisations that fall within its scope.

Contacts

	Casa do Conhecimento Rua da Quinta do Almargem, 14B 1300-490 Lisboa
	+351 213 611 560
	cdc@ulusiada.pt

Useful links

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	Oral History
	Scientific production

Licence

This work is licensed under Creative Commons - Non-commercial Attribution Without Derivatives - 4.0 International.

Photo gallery

This work is supported by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P. by project reference <UID/04624/Centro Lusíada de Investigação em Serviço Social e Intervenção Social> and DOI identifier <10.54499/UIDB/04624/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/04624/2020)>.