Rafaela Granja

Rafaela Granja has a PhD in Sociology from the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho (2015) and is a career assistant researcher at the Centre for Communication and Society Studies (CECS) of the same university under the FCT-Tenure Programme.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of the sociology of crime and justice and the social studies of science and technology and focus on the technological surveillance of criminalised populations at different stages of the criminal justice system, namely: criminal investigation, electronic surveillance and imprisonment. She was recently coordinator of the E-MONITORING project: Electronic surveillance in the criminal justice system: projected futures and lived experiences (ref. 2023.00030.RESTART) funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and is currently coordinator of the CECS team that is part of the European research consortium ForMAT: Forensic Methylation Analysis Toolsets, funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe programme.