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Sara Mengato is a junior researcher at the German Biomass Research Centre. She earned her M.Sc. in Sustainable Development at Leipzig and Utrecht University with a specialization in Earth System Governance. Her research focuses on circular economy transitions in urban and rural areas along with the socio-political processes accompanying these transitions. As a PRESILIENT PhD fellow she will study at DCU and focus on informality in Chile. Throughout the project, she expects to work closely with local stakeholders and deliver solutions that are both community-driven and gender- inclusive.
RESEARCH PROJECT
Informality and Innovation: Building Post-Pandemic Resilient Communities in Chile.
Working, Inhabiting and Caring: a Study on the Everyday Life of Women in Urban Informality.
My doctoral thesis focuses on the topic of urban informality in urban Chile and dives into the everyday experiences of women in informal work and informal housing.
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PUBLICATIONS
Mengato, S. (Under evaluation). Exploring urban informality through a gender perspective: inhabiting and working informality in Valparaiso, Chile. In SI: “What is informality and what could be? Examples from the Latin American Region". Co-editors: Miria Gambardella, Abel Polese, Jairo Baquero Melo, Kate Maclean. Currently under evaluation by the Journal of Latin American Studies.
Molina, J. L., Pulgar Corrotea, M., Polese, A., Fradejas-García, I., Ianole-Călin, R., Isaev, A., Mengato, S., Nguyen, M., Carracedo, D., De Lombaerde, G., Avesani, M., Sasikornwong, N., Gambardella, M., Andrias, B., Massera, M., Lima, J. P., Cisagara, B., Rahman, A., Kabaghe, W., & D'Urso, D. (2024). PRESILIENT Horizon Scanning Dataset [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14285318
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