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A journalist, he was Director of News at RTP and TVI, simultaneously editing and presenting Telejornal (RTP) and Jornal das 8 (TVI). He began his career in radio and, in 1992, was part of the team that founded the first private television station in Portugal, SIC, where he presented Jornal da Noite. He taught at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and co-coordinated the Postgraduate Course in Journalism at ISCTE/Media Capital. At the invitation of the President of the Republic, he inaugurated the programme «Journalists in Belém Palace» in 2018.

Professor of Sociology and Sociological Practice at the University of Leicester, UK, where he worked for over 20 years at the Centre for Labor Market Studies (CLMS), including serving as Director for five years, before returning to the Sociology department (now the School of Media, Communication and Sociology). His approaches sociology as a “craft”, working from the premise that social life is best understood by examining long-term social and historical processes through the intersection of history and individual biographies. He is a member of the sociology panel of the UK Research Excellence Framework and chair of the Data, Infrastructure, Skills and Methods Advisory Group on the expert panel of the UK Economic and Social Research Council.

Last updated: November 2021

He is Professor of European Youth Policy at the University of South Wales in the UK. He has worked at the Universities of Oxford, Cardiff and Copenhagen and has been Visiting Researcher at universities and institutes in Hong Kong, Malta, Croatia, China, France, Australia and Iran. He has published widely on youth and youth policy and worked extensively with young people. Throughout his career, he has been an advisor on youth policy issues to the Welsh and UK governments, the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the United Nations. In addition to his academic work, he ran a youth centre for 25 years. He is a trustee of Grassroots – the Cardiff City Centre Youth Project, the European Forum Alpbach Foundation and the Duke of Edinburgh's International Youth Award. Since 2002, he has been organisational secretary of RC34 – Sociology of Youth of the International Sociological Association.
He was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2002 and, in 2016, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO).

Last updated: November 2021

A writer and journalist specialising in the environment, he has been researching climate change and responsiveness to a rapidly changing environment for ProPublica, an independent investigative journalism newsroom in New York, which collaborates with the New York Times Magazine.
He is a 2022 Emerson Collective Fellow at New America and has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to write his next book on climate migration. He also teaches narrative writing on climate change at the University of California, Berkeley.
His most recent research includes a three-part series on global climate migration, an analysis of the global palm oil trade, the climatic factors behind pandemics and how climate change is evidencing a global water shortage. Another of his series on the causes of water scarcity in the American West, «Killing the Colorado», was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize and received the top honour from the National Academy of Sciences.

Last updated: October 2022

She has a degree in psychology from the University of Lisbon's FPCE, studied film studies at Lisbon's ESTC, worked for RTP and, as a director for SIC, attended a BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) course in TV Production.
She was a director for SIC from 1992 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2003 she completed the Advanced Programme in Political Journalism at the Institute of Political Studies of the Catholic University of Lisbon. From 2004 to 2008, she was a documentaries advisor to RTP's Programme Direction. In March 2018, she unanimously received her PhD in contemporary history, specialising in empires, colonialism and post-colonialism, earning a distinction and praise for her work. In 2007, she was awarded the Lusophony Grand Prize for the documentary «The Prodigious Writer», a film about the life of Jorge de Sena, which she wrote and directed. In 2018 she was awarded the Fernando de Sousa prize by the European Commission for her work directing and co-authoring the screenplay for the 6-film documentary series Europa 30, shown on RTP2. In 2021 she premiered the documentary «Visions of Empire» at the DocLisboa festival, which she also directed and wrote.

last update: January 2023

Emeritus Professor of Demography at the University of Oxford and Associate Researcher in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention. He has a degree in zoology and biological anthropology from Queen's College, Oxford, and was a volunteer teacher in Nigeria before completing his PhD at the London School of Economics.

Last updated: November 2023

She has a degree in medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and a Master's Degree in Gerontology from the University of Social and Political Sciences of Grenoble, France. She has developed and coordinated various national programmes and projects aimed at the elderly population. She is President of the Portuguese Association of Psychogerontology, Vice-President of the Portuguese Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology and Council Member of the International Association of Geriatrics and Gerontology. She received the 2016 FEMINA Award – Outstanding Portuguese and Lusophone Women.

Last updated: January 2024

Full Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is a researcher at NOVA's Communication Institute. Her work focuses on media and journalism studies, children and the media, inclusion and digital participation.
She is Coordinator of the «EU Kids Online» project.
Previously, she was affiliated with the Communication, Information and Digital Culture Research Centre, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences and the Media and Journalism Research Centre.
She holds a degree in social communication, a master's degree in communication sciences and a PhD in journalism.

Last updated: February 2024

Psychologist specialising in political psychology and political education.
Full Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Porto.
She is a board member and Researcher at the Centre for Educational Research and Intervention at the University of Porto.

Last updated: February 2024