Vera Schattan Pereira Coelho
Visiting Research Fellow
Vera P. Coelho is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. She has a PhD in social sciences from UNICAMP (Campinas State University), Brazil. She is a Senior Researcher and coordinator of the Citizenship and Development Group at the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). Prof. Coelho co-coordinates with Bettina Von Liers, the Comparative Research Program, Deepening Democracy in States and Localities at the Citizenship Development Research Centre (IDS) at Sussex University. Other research interests include public policy, political participation, accountability, democracy and development. She has written various articles on health, social security, social policies and citizen participation. Prof. Coelho edited, Social Security Reform in Latin America (fgv, 2003); Participation and Deliberation in Contemporary Brazil (with Marcos Nobre, 34 Letras, 2004) and New Democratic Spaces: The Politics of Citizen Participation In New Democratic Arenas (with Andrea Cornwall, Zed Books, 2006). She works with both qualitative and quantitative research methods and has extensive experience in evaluating policies and coordinating research projects at local, national and international level, having led various comparative studies in her area.