Centro de estudos sobre a Mudança
Socioeconómica e o Território

Leonor Matos Silva is an integrated researcher at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), Dinâmia-CET. She is the Co-Principal Investigator of the project WomArchStruggle—Women Architects in Former Portuguese Colonial Africa: Gender and Struggle for Professional Recognition (1953-1985). She completed her PhD at ISCTE-IUL, focusing on the interplay between pre- and post-revolutionary architectural education in Lisbon. Following this, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the project MCMH—Middle-class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Her latest article, titled Women’s Absence from the Public Sphere: Gender Inequality in Portuguese Architecture Schools, was published in Postcolonial Directions in Education (University of Malta). Leonor is also 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 both the SAH Conference 2025 and the 2025 Annual Meeting of the ACSA.