Geographer, PhD in human geography and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), where he works on the integrated master's and PhD courses.
He is also a researcher at FAUP's Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies (CEAU). He has published extensively, including «Transgenic Landscapes» (Landscape Museum 2021), «Tour of Portugal» (Contraponto, Lisbon, 2017), «Common Home Territory» (with N. Travasso, FAUP, Porto, 2015), «The Street of the Road» (Dafne, Porto, 2010), «Country Life» (Dafne, Porto, 2012) and «Urban Policies I and II» (with N. Portas and J. Cabral, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2003 and 2011) and «City and Democracy» (Argumentum, Lisbon, 2006). He writes regularly for the newspaper «Público».
He has a PhD in Human Geography from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.
Professor at the University of Lisbon School of Human Motricity.
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education, a Master’s degree in Sport Psychology and a PhD in Motor Sciences. She was a Physical Education teacher for 15 years. She has several national and international publications in the areas of motor development, motor skills, perception and action, independence of mobility, the importance of play, risk and child safety.
Director, writer, journalist and well-known storyteller. She has a Bachelor's degree in Cultural and Media Studies and she has worked on the Grande Reportagem TV programme, the Expresso and the Público newspapers and Egoísta magazine. The author of important reports and documentary programmes, she has received several awards for her journalistic work, particularly the UNESCO «Human Rights and Integration» award and four AMI Journalism Against Indifference awards. She published the portrait «Roots» with Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos and directed «Countdown», a documentary, which is now making its début at FFMS Conferences.
A journalist at the Público newspaper since 1999, she writes about human rights and social exclusion, such as poverty, gender, the protection of children and young people, ageing, domestic violence, drugs, equality and social protection policies. She has written the books «Nobody’s Boys» (2009), «White Travels» (2011), «Perpetual Motion» (2016) and «Women of my Island, Women of my Country» (2022). Her volunteer work resulted in the books «Challenges – the Rights of Women in Guinea-Bissau» (2012), which she co-wrote with Nelson Constantino Lopes, and «Women of São Tomé and Príncipe» (2018), which she co-wrote with Dário Pequeno Paraíso. She has written two documentary plays: «Where the Cold Lingers» (2016) and «It’s Different Now» (2019).
She has been a professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, ESTM, since 1999. She got her PhD in Sociology and Historical Economics from the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences in Lisbon. Among other books, she published «Gifts and Disciplines of the Female Body» (1997), «The Time of the Servant Girls» (2012), «Óbidos Lagoon: A Guide to the Interpretation of Heritage» (2015) and «Different Views: A Portrait of the Óbidos Lagoon» (2015).
A writer and journalist, she currently writes about children's books for LER magazine, an area where she also teaches and does translations. She has a Bachelor's degree and a postgraduate degree in Communication and Media Studies from Nova University Lisbon and a postgraduate degree in Children's Books from the Catholic University of Portugal. Since 2005, he has published eleven books, most of which are recommended by the National Reading Plan.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Multimedia from the Lusiada University of Lisbon and a Master’s degree in Advertising from IADE. He has been devoted himself to managing educational projects related to statistical literacy through the Pordata Academy since 2010. More recently, he also took up the position of Regional Director at the American Atlantis Project, as well as the management of environmental education projects for Oceanário de Lisboa. He is passionate about travel, which he regularly partakes in.
He is a consultant specialising in institutional and crisis communication and has worked with several companies, institutions and personalities. Previously, he was the culture editor in the Semanario, Se7e and Independente newspapers.
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and enjoys being alive so much that she finds herself thinking of death quite frequently. Over the years, she has read a lot about the subject, which continues to intrigue her. She also has many other interests, ranging from literary translation to traditional typography. This is her fourth book, with other books in the works.
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.
