Population

Frederico Batista: Frederico Batista studied Journalism and worked in the newsrooms of the «Público newspaper» and «Sapo Notícias» (online news). At the same time, he began playing an active role in cultural communication and he now works at LU.CA – Teatro Luís de Camões.
He received an honourable mention at the «Novos Talentos Fnac» awards in 2021 and he wrote the screenplay for a short film «Coney Island – As Primeiras Vezes» (2023), which won the Portuguese Film Academy Sophia Award for Best Short Documentary Film. He is the father of two daughters.

Last updated: January 2026

Rui Araújo is a journalist who occasionally collaborates with «Luzes» magazine (A Coruña) and «FronteraD» (Madrid).
He has also contributed to outlets such as RTP, Expresso, RFI, Le Point, Libération, CBS News and TVI.
He co-founded the magazine «Grande Reportagem».
Rui was the first Portuguese reporter to enter Timor after the Indonesian invasion and has covered conflicts in places such as Bosnia, Rwanda, Libya, Syria and the Central African Republic. He was also the first Portuguese journalist to be admitted to the Nieman Foundation for Journalism (Harvard University).
In 1997, he was a founding member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and has also served as the ombudsman for the newspaper «Público».
He has written non-fiction books on espionage and war, and also co-written two others, including one on the subject of corruption, published in the USA, in addition to four crime novels.
He writes a regular blog about bullfighter José Bento de Araújo, his great-great-great-grandfather, who practised his art in Portugal, Spain, France and Brazil during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Last update: August 2025

Journalist since 1974. First Portuguese correspondent in Peking (1988 – 1990). Freelancer since 2002.
He has a Master’s degree in History and the Philosophy of Science (FCUL).
He is a PhD student in Art History, (NOVA – FCSH).
He is a researcher and communicator on subjects related to horology. A volunteer at the Ephemera Archive, he coordinates its Time and Gastronomy Centres.

Last updated: 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

Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal in Braga since 2006 and a researcher at the Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies.
He has a Master’s degree in Psychology – specialising in Family Psychology, from the Catholic University of Portugal School of Philosophy in Braga.
He has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Porto School of Psychology and Education Sciences.

Last updated: april 2025

He has a Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Évora. He was Director of the Ria Formosa Natural Park and the Marshland Nature Reserve of Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo. He has written three novels and won the LeYa prize for «The Invisible People» (April 2022). Slippery Slopes – Selected Poetry, revisiting twelve poems, is his most recent book.

Last update: january 2025

In addition to being an architect, he is also a freelance journalist.
He was an activist with the Wake Up Lisbon Movement, editor of «DIF» and «Le Cool Lisboa» and journalist for «Coimbra Coolectiva» magazine.
He took second place in the Fundação Casais/CEiiA Prize for «Journalism for Sustainability 2023», received an honourable mention in the «2023 Journalism and Local Power» Prize from the Association of Portuguese Municipalities and an honourable mention for journalism from «Associação Corações com Coroa» in 2024.
He has a Bachelor's degree in Architecture form the Coimbra School of Artistic Technology and a Master's degree in Building Rehabilitation from the University of Coimbra.

Last updated: january 2025

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

She was born in Lisbon, where she got her Bachelor’s degree in Law, and she has worked in journalism for 25 years. She held the position of Society Editor and Lead Reporter, did film reviews and a weekly chronicle and she founded and managed the Cinema Final Cut website. She has been on the panel of judges at contests organised by ICA, which also funded three of her scripts. She made her début as a novelist with «What Matter the Fury of the Sea» (Teorema) a work that unanimously won the APE/DGLAB2013 Novel and Novella Grand Prize. Her second novel «You Can’t Live in a Cat's Eyes» (Teorema), a finalist in the Oceans Prize, won the Manuel de Boaventura Literary Prize and, again, APE/DGLAB the Novel and Novella Grand Prize 2016, thus entering the small group of Portuguese novelists to have been twice honoured. «Small Domestic Delusions» (Relógio d’Água), a collection of short stories, won the Camilo Castelo Branco/APE Short Story and Novel Award. Her latest novel «The Gesture You Make to Protect Your Head» (Relógio de Água) is a finalist candidate for the Oceans Award. She published a set of stories about war in July 2021: «Maps of Poorly Situated Places». She is the author of the cultural podcast Gross Domestic Happiness by Lisbon Municipal Council.

Last updated: February 2023