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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

Composer, sound designer, acoustic communication specialist and professor at the School of Social and Human Sciences (NOVA-FCSH).
He is a founding member of the Portuguese Acoustic Society.
He studied with R. Murray Schafer and Barry Truax and, under the guidance of the latter, completed his Master's Degree in Interactive Hypermedia Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
As a composer and sound designer, his work focuses mainly on theatre, video and interactive technologies.
He has written several plays and musicals. He was a programmer for the music and sound arts area at «Coimbra, National Capital of Culture 2003» and assistant to Constança Capdeville, with whom he collaborated in several works.

Last updated: September 2024

Researcher at CoLABOR – Social Protection/Economy and Solidarity. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL and a Master's degree in Bioethics from the University of Lisbon School of Medicine. She has a postgraduate degree in Sociology of Health and Illness, as well as in Data Analysis in Social Sciences, from ISCTE-IUL. She has advanced training in Applied Project Management from Nova SBE, in Bioethics from the Yale Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioethics and in English Language and Culture from the Oxford Royale Academy.

Last updated: March 2022

Researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Ageing.

Last updated: March 2022

Assistant Researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology (1999), a Postgraduate Diploma in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies (2001) and a PhD in Sociology (2010) from ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon. His current research interests focus on the Sociology of Health and Medicine, the Sociology of Ageing and the Sociology of Communication and Mass Media. He has carried out studies on access to, assessment of and attitudes towards the Health System in Portugal and on behaviour and attitudes towards therapeutic adherence; he has also studied how health and the Health System are represented in the Portuguese media, as well as access to and use of information sources for health literacy. Population ageing is another area of research that he has devoted himself to in recent years, particularly on aspects related to health, well-being and quality of life.

Last updated: March 2022

Assistant researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Nova University Lisbon (1984) and has a PhD in Sociology from Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (1999). He was a member of the ICS Board of Directors (1998-2004) and a member of the board of the Portuguese Sociological Association (2000-2002). He has worked on the themes of identities, values and ways of life. His main research projects are currently the study of Portuguese sexuality in the context of AIDS and a survey on the sources of sexual education of Portuguese young people.

Last updated: March 2022

Sociologist. Research coordinator at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon, 1969. PhD in Sociology from the University of Oxford, 1978.

Legal consultant at the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Health. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Law and a Master's degree in Health Management. Guest lecturer at the National School of Public Health between 2010 and 2016, giving seminars on Ethics Committees and Health Authorities on PhD and Master's programmes and Specialisation courses in Hospital Administration.

Last updated: March 2022

Nurse specialising in community nursing and assistant professor at the Viana do Castelo Nursing School.

Last updated: March 2022