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She has a PhD in Contemporary History and is a researcher at ICS-UL – the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. She works on the Estado Novo and is currently studying the association between architecture and politics, looking for analogies and connections between Salazarism and other inter-war dictatorships. At the same time, she has devoted herself to archive work and is responsible for the Social History Archive at ICS-UL.

Last updated: February 2019

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

Degree in Psychology and Master’s degree in Sociology from ISCSP-ULisboa. Research fellow at CIEG, Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, ISCSP, ULisboa.

Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal and researcher. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Organisation and Management from ISCTE-IUL, a Master's degree in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL and is a PhD candidate in Management – Applied Decision Science at the University of Coimbra. She works with ISCSP-ULisboa on research in the field of Sociology. She researches and publishes in the areas of Marketing, Sociology and Retail.

Last updated: March 2022

With a PhD in Mathematics, specialising in Probability and Statistics, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of the Azores and an integrated member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS.Nova.UAçores and CICS.UAc). His main research interests include data analysis, especially multivariate data analysis, applied to the Social Sciences, covering multiple themes associated with local and regional development. He participates in several research projects and is co-author of several books and articles, both national and international.