António Brandão Moniz

Professor/FCT-UNL, ITAS-KIT

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Education

Studied Sociology at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon until 1980; Post-graduation studies on Social Sciences at University of Azores 1983; PhD on Sociology at Universidade Nova de Lisboa 1992, on processes of technological and organisational changes in the Portuguese manufacturing industry. Habilitation 2001 at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) on Sociology of New Information Technologies.

Professional background

1980-1983 Assistant lecturer at University of Azores, Ponta Delgada
1983-1992 Lecturer at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Faculty of Sciences and Technology)
1992-1999 Assistant Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Faculty of Sciences and Technology)
1999-2001 Associate Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Faculty of Sciences and Technology)
2001-2011 Associate Professor with Habilitation at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Faculty of Sciences and Technology)
since 2011 Invited researcher at ITAS

Current position

Fields of work

  • Future trends on the usage of autonomous systems in manufacturing industries
  • Scenarios building methods, Delphi survey
  • Robotics Technology Assessment
  • Mobility and transport inter-modalities

Management of reading lists at IDEAS/RePEc repository

Selected publications

Books and book chapters

Moniz, A. Brandão
Avaliação participativa de tecnologia e sustentabilidade organizacional (Participative technology assessment and organisational sustainability). In: Domingues, I. (Hrsg.): Organizações: Controlo e sustentabilidade (Organisations: Control and sustainability). Famalicão, Portugal: Edições Húmus 2012, S. 177-193

Moniz, A. Brandão
Anthropocentric-based robotic and autonomous systems: Assessment for new organisational options. In: Decker, M.; Gutmann, M. (Hrsg.): Robo- und Informationethics: Some Fundamentals. Zürich, Berlin: LIT 2012, S. 123-157
(Hermeneutik und Anthropologie, Bd. 3)

Moniz, A. Brandão
Designing a technology assessment post-graduation programme: Experiences, limits and needs. In: Dusseldorp, M.; Beecroft, R. (Hrsg.): Technikfolgen abschätzen lehren. Bildungspotenziale transdisziplinärer Methoden. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2012, S. 357-370

Moniz, A. Brandão
From the Lisbon strategy to EU2020: illusion or progress for European economies?, in B.-J. Krings (ed) Brain drain or brain gain? Changes of work in knowledge-based societies, Berlin, Sigma Verlag, 2011

Moniz, A. Brandão
Change processes and methodologies of future perspectives on work, (collaboration with M. R. Paulos and D. Bannink), Leuven, HIVA/Unibbok, 2009, 82 pp.+annex

Articles (peer-reviewed journals)

Paulos, M.R.; Moniz, A. Brandão
Os trabalhadores do conhecimento num setor tradicional: O caso dos designers do verstuário. Sociologia. Problemas E Práticas (2013)72, S. 103-122, DOI:10.7458/SPP2013722620
full text/pdf 

Moniz, A. Brandão
Constructive Technology Assessment in the High-Speed Train Industry: a Case Study (with S. M. Moretto and A. P. Palma), International Journal of Railways Technology (accepted for publication 2012).

Moniz, A. Brandão
Assessing scenarios on the future of work, Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies, IET, vol. 4(4), pages 91-106, November 2008.

Moniz, A. Brandão
Foresight methodologies to understand changes in the labour process. Experience from Portugal, Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies, nº 2, 2006, IET, Monte de Caparica, pp. 105 - 116.

Moniz, A. Brandão
Competencia o cooperación? Sobre el desarrollo socio-cultural de la sociedad de la información (with Bettina-Johanna Krings), Sociología del Trabajo, nº 44, Madrid, Siglo XXI, Invierno 2002, pp.125 - 143.

Working papers

Moniz, A. Brandão
Research and development expenditure in the business sector as indicator of knowledge economy: the Portuguese experience  (with Nuno Boavida), IET Working Papers Series 04/2012, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, IET-Research Center on Enterprise and Work Innovation, Faculty of Science and Technology.

Moniz, A. Brandão
Competências para a Tomada de Decisão na Radiologia: Uma abordagem de Avaliação de Tecnologia [Competences for decision taking in Radiology: A Technology Assessment approach]  (with Maria J. Maia), IET Working Papers Series 02/2011, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, IET-Research Center on Enterprise and Work Innovation, Faculty of Science and Technology.

Moniz, A. Brandão
The transformation of work? A quantitative evaluation of changes in work in Portugal, IET Working Papers Series 07/2008, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, IET-Research Center on Enterprise and Work Innovation, Faculty of Science and Technology.

Moniz, A. Brandão
Futures of automobile industry and challenges on sustainable development and mobility, IET Working Papers Series 04/2008, (with Margarida Paulos) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, IET-Research Center on Enterprise and Work Innovation, Faculty of Science and Technology..