PrintOver the years Margarida's interests have touched many diverse topics. Currently she's focusing on the benefits of urban gardening, the disadvantages of the genetic engineering of food, and the value of Emotional Freedom Techniques in solving eating disorders.
Her Ph.D. from Cornel University was on molecular biology; as an undergraduate she took biology. At this moment she's an assistant professor and is tasked with overseeing the college's interaction with high school students.
Publications:
Silva, Margarida. Implicações éticas dos organismos geneticamente modificados. in Maria do Céu Patrão Neves & Viriato Soromenho Marques (eds.) Ética Aplicada: Ambiente. Edições 70, Lisboa. 2017
Marta Pinto, Conceição Almeida, Ana Maria Pereira, Margarida Silva. Urban Forest Governance: FUTURE— The 100,000 Trees Project in the Porto Metropolitan Area. in P. Castro et al. (eds.), Biodiversity and Education for Sustainable Development. Springer International Switzerland. 2016
Pinto, M., Macedo, M., Macedo, P., Almeida, C., & Silva, M. The Lifecycle of a Voluntary Policy Innovation: The Case of Local Agenda 21. Journal of Management and Sustainability, 5(2), 69. 2015
Silva, Manuela; Silva, Margarida. Leapfrogging agriculture as usual: the potential contribution and sustainability benefits of organic farming to carbon sequestration in Portugal. International Journal of Agriculture Innovations and Research 4(1):201-211. 2015
Costa, H., Silva, M., et al. Pensamento crítico na Universidade Católica do Porto – um projeto em construção. Rui Marques et al. (eds.) Pensamento crítico na educação: perspetivas atuais no panorama internacional. UA Editora, Aveiro. 2015
