Dr Angelo Martins Junior

• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) (2024)
• PhD in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London (2017)
• MA in Sociology, Federal University of São Carlos/Brazil (2012)
• BA in Social Science, Federal University of São Carlos/Brazil (2009)
• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) (2022)
• Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education from the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil (2011)
• Certificate in Online and Distance Education from the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil (2012)

Angelo Martins Junior has a BA in Social Sciences (Sociology, Anthropology & Politics) and a Masters’ degree in Sociology, both from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar/Brazil). PhD in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London (2016), where he also worked as Associate Lecturer (2016-2018) teaching Criminology and Sociology.

He then worked as a Research Associate on an ERC Advanced Grant funded project at the School of Sociology, Politics & International Studies (SPAIS), University of Bristol (2018-2022), where he coordinated the Research Challenge 'Control, Conflict & Resistance' at the Research Institute 'Migration, Mobilities Bristol (MMB).

He is Permanent Member of the Laboratory of Work, Professions and Mobility (UFSCar/Brazil). Co-editor of the on-line material of the journals Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society. Regional editor of the Global Dialogue – International Sociological Association’s academic newsletter.

Author of the book 'Lives in Motion: Notebooks of an Immigrant in London' (WhyteTracks, 2014) and 'Moving Difference: Brazilians in London' (Routledge, 2020).

• Module Lead for LH Migration, Mobility & Difference 
• Module Lead for LC Introduction to Social Divisions 
• Co-convenor for LM Ethnography

• Precarious working and living conditions of marginalised and criminalised groups (migrants, informal workers, sex workers, traditional populations)
• Mobility, Migration and Difference (‘race’, class, gender)
• Colonial legacies and inequalities

‘Climate Emergencies, (Im)Mobility, and Citizenship in the Brazilian Amazon: Governance and Strategies of Riverine Communities under Environmental Pressure’, awarded by UBBI–FAPESPA Connect Amazonia, 2025-2026, (PI).

‘Writing for Change: Slavery, Violence and Exploitation’, awarded by The British Academy Writing Workshop 2020, UK, to be held in Brazil with participants from the U.K, Brazil and Ghana, 2025-2027 (Co-I).

‘Languages, Technological Innovation, and Social Justice’, awarded by National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil. Brazil Knowledge Program  – Collaborative Projects with Brazilian Academics Abroad, 2025-2027. (PI – International).

‘The law and the pursuit of rights and freedoms’ awarded by Humanity United – Research & publication series published in partnership with ‘Open Democracy’, 2023 (PI)

‘Changing the Modern Slavery narrative’ awarded by AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (University of Bristol), 2023. (Co-I)

‘Negotiating multiple risks: health, safety and well-being among sex workers in Brazil in times of Covid 19’ awarded by the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute - Global Public Health (COVID-19) funding call, 2021-2022. (Co-I)

‘Congolese women speak, does the world listen?’ awarded by Humanity United – Research & publication series published by OpenDemocracy, 2021 (PI)

‘Decolonising Trafficking and Modern Slavery’ awarded by The British Academy Writing Workshop 2020, UK, to be held in Ghana with participants from the U.K, Brazil and Ghana, (Co-I)

Work and Peripheral Globalization in Brazil: A Comparative Study in Three Productive Sectors, awarded by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), 2017-2020. (Co-I)

• Convenor of the British Sociological Association Study Group “Slavery and Modern Slavery”