Politics

She holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent, UK. She is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies and professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra.
Her research interests focus on peace studies, foreign policy, international security, the European Union and the post-Soviet space.
She was the coordinator of the Jean Monnet PRONE Centre of Excellence and holds a Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Coimbra.

Last update: March 2026

Researcher and university lecturer with a PhD in Digital Media from NOVA University Lisbon, in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin. With 15 years of experience as a reporter, her research focuses primarily on media literacy and journalism.
She occasionally collaborates with international organisations when conducting her research, such as the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Council of Europe.

Last update: december 2025

Writer. He has written several non-fiction books, including «While We Survive this Fatal Illness», «Humour is No Joke and Who Shall We Burn Today?».
He started out in journalism and worked for outlets such as «Focus» magazine and «Rádio Renascença».
He was also a Culture and Communication researcher at the Catholic University of Portugal.
He wrote the novel «Precious» and won the FITA International Award in the category of Best Chronicle in 2022.

Last update: august 2025

Assistant professor in the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Science at the University of Aveiro and researcher at GOVCOPP.
He has a Master’s degree in Planning and Projects in the Urban Environment from the University of Porto and a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Aveiro.
He directed the Master’s degree course in Urban and Regional Planning from 2016 to 2020.
He coordinates the Public Policy Planning Laboratory, a research group with Master's degree and PhD students at the University of Aveiro, which won the University of Aveiro Cooperation Prize in 2023.
He has been involved in a number of national and international research projects on participatory land use planning and has promoted several civic movements and initiatives on behalf of cities and citizenship. He has also written a number of national and international publications on the subject of participation and cities.

Last updated: august 2025

Pedro Camões holds a PhD from the University of South Carolina and is assistant professor in the department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro.
He teaches and researches in the fields of decentralisation and local government, having published around twenty articles in international journals.
His consultancy work includes studies for the Directorate-General for Local Authorities, the Ministry of the Economy of Portugal, the Municipality of Porto and the OECD.
He has also served as an adviser to the Government of Mozambique as part of state decentralisation projects led by the World Bank.

Last updated: June 2025