Raquel Varela

Raquel Varela is an assistant professor with Habilitation at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is a historian and researcher. President of the Observatory for Living and Working Conditions. Coordinator of Social Data/Nova4Globe. Integrated researcher of the Research Group History, Territory and Communities CEF/UC/Polo FCSH. Collaborating Researcher at the Center for Global Studies at Universidade Aberta. 

Varela is a social historian and a researcher in global labour history. In 2020 wone the Prize of the Ibero-American Communication Association / University of Oviedo, Spain, for her contribution to global labour history and social movements. In 2020, she was the first distinguished with the Simone Veil-Project Europe research grant, University of Munich. In 2021, she was visiting researcher at the Institute of European Global Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is honorary fellow at the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam. She is author and coordinator of 40 books on global labour history, the welfare state, history of Portugal, history of Europe in the XX Century, history of social movements.