Born in Luanda, Angola, in 1959. Holds a BA (1983) and a PhD (2001) in Sociology by ISCTE-IUL. Full Professor at the Department of Sociology of ISCTE-IUL and Senior Researcher of CIES-IUL.  Former Vice-Rector for Research of ISCTE-IUL (2014-2018). Former member of the General Council of ISCTE-IUL (2013-2018). Former Director of CIES-IUL (2006-2014). Former Director of the Doctoral Program in Sociology (2011-2014). Founder and former Director of Mundos Sociais publisher (2010-2014). Long record of research and publication on social classes and inequalities; migration and ethnicity; youth; sociology of sociology; economic and cultural value of the Portuguese language. Supervised or co-supervised 14 doctoral thesis and 31 master dissertations. Started a professional career at the Instituto de Estudos para o Desenvolvimento (1984-1986) and entered ISCTE-IUL as Assistente Estagiário in 1985. Research Assistant at the Institute for Social Sciences, Lisbon University (1987-1989). In 2023, he was awarded, ex aequo, the Prize João Ferreira de Almeida, category "Books", with Investigação Sociológica em Portugal. Um Guia Histórico e Analítico, Porto, Afrontamento, 2022.

Gustavo Cardoso is Full Professor of Sociology of Communication at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and a researcher at CIES. He is also an associate researcher at CADIS (Center d'Analyze et d'Interventions Sociologiques) in Paris and Director of OberCom - Observatório dos Meios de Comunicação Social in Lisbon. He is currently the director of the PhD in Communication Sciences and of three post-graduate programs in Communication at ISCTE-IUL, namely the Post-Graduate program in Journalism, the Post-Graduate program in Factchecking and disinformation, and the Post-Graduate program in Communication and Politics.  From 1996 to 2006, he was advisor to the President of the Portuguese Republic, Jorge Sampaio, for Information Society and Telecommunications policy. From 2006-2012, he was non-executive Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese news agency Lusa. In 2006 he was awarded the degree of "Grande Oficial da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique" for relevant services rendered to Portugal. In 2009 he was elected as Young Global Leader of the WEF and in 2018 he was proposed to be a member of the Academia Europaea where he holds the position of member of the Cinema, media and visual studies section. He has a degree in Business Organization and Management, a Master in European Studies and a PhD in Sociology of Communication. He also holds a specialization in "Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century" from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Helena Carreiras is Vice rector and  full professor of Sociology, Public Policy and Research Methodology at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, and a senior researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES). She holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute (Florence). Between 2016 and 2019 she was the dean of the School of Sociology and Public Policy of Iscte and between 2017 and 2019 the president of the European Association ERGOMAS (European Research Group on Military and Society).  She served as deputy director of the Portuguese National Defense Institute (2010-2012) and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Georgetown (Department of Government) (2013/2014). Between 2019 and 2022 she directed the National Defence Institute and between 2022 and  2024 she was the Minister of National Defense of Portugal, being the first woman to occupy both positions. Her research interests are in gender and society, armed forces, civil-military relations, security and defence public policies and qualitative research methodology. Her work has focused on gender integration in military institutions and gender aspects of international security. Among other works, she co-edited The Impact of Social Research on the Military (Routledge, 2021, with Celso Castro and Eyal Ben-Ari) Researching the Military (Routledge, 2016, with Celso Castro and Sabina Frederic), Qualitative Methods in Military Studies (Routlege, 2013, with Celso Castro) and Women in the Military and in Armed Conflict, (Vs Verlag, 2008, with Gerhard Kuemmel). She is the author of Gender and the Military. Women in the Armed Forces of Western Democracies (Routledge, 2006).

Joana Azevedo is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology, School of Sociology and Public Policy of ISCTE-IUL and integrated research fellow at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL) since 2008. She holds a PhD in Social Theory and Research from the Department of Sociology and Communication Sciences of the University La Sapienza in Rome (2007), with a doctoral grant for studies abroad from the Portuguese national science foundation - FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia). She is postgraduated in Data Analysis in Social Sciences (2010) and graduated in Sociology (2001) from the ISCTE-IUL. She is currently member of the Observatories of Communication (OberCom) and Emigration (OEm). She was postdoctoral fellow at CIES-IUL with a postdoctoral grant from the FCT (2008-2014). Since 2011-2012 she has been teaching at ISCTE-IUL in the fields of communication sciences, sociology and social science research methods. She’s member of the Scientific Commitee of the PhD Programme in Comunication Sciences. She also teaches at the European Master's Programme Erasmus Mundus MFamily.

Jorge Vieira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology of the School of Sociology and Public Policies at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. He is the director of the Masters in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies and of the board of directors of LIA Iscte - Laboratory for Innovation at the Academy. He holds a PhD in Sociology and a Master's Degree in Communication, Culture and Information Technology from ISCTE-IUL. He teaches and tutors in the masters programs of Communication, Culture and Information Technologies; Entrepreneurship and Culture Studies, as well as in the graduation in Sociology and in the PhD in Communication Sciences. In addition to teaching he develops research at the Center for Research and Studies of Sociology - CIES-IUL as an integrated PHD Researcher and at OberCom - Observatório da Comunicação. He was already a researcher in projects of the Institute of Social Sciences University of Lisbon (ICS-UL), namely at Portuguese Permanent Youth Observatory. He also participated in the European Erasmus program at the University of Warwick, and developed a Short Term Scientific Mission at the London School of Economics (LSE) and in international networks such as the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) actions, namely the COST-298 action. The main research topics are within 2 major areas: media and culture, alongside social research methods. Some of the interest areas focus in new media, music, digital piracy, audiences, participatory culture, fandom, street art and online dating. He received the "Paquete de Oliveira Award - National Excellence Award for PhD Theses at Portuguese Universities" in 2017.

Associate Professor (with Habilitation) of the Department of Sociology in ISCTE-IUL. Lecturer in the Doctoral Programmes of Sociology (ISCTE-IUL, since 2006), Urban Studies (FCSH-UNL/ISCTE-IUL, 2016-7), and Social Work (ISCTE-IUL, 2004-5). Lecturer (since 2006), member of the Commission for the Evaluation of Applications (since 2023), and director (2009-2022) in the Master Programme of Sociology in ISCTE-IUL. Lecturer in the Graduation Programmes of Sociology (since 1994) and OGE  (1991-4) in ISCTE-IUL, and Environment Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico (1997-9). Member of the Council for the Coordination of the Internationalization of Iscte-IUL (since 2020). Alternate member of the Scientific Commission (since 2022), vice-director (2013-6) and member of the Executive Commission (1995-8) of the Department of Sociology ISCTE-IUL. Member of the Scientific Commissions of the Doctoral Programme in Sociology (since 2006) and Social Work  (ISCTE-IUL, 2007-8), and of the Master Programme in Social Sciences (ISCTE-Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, 2003-6). Member of the Nucleous for Studies on Disability of ISCTE-IUL (since 2023). Member of the Commission for the Evaluation of the Activity of the Researchers in the field of Communication and Culture (since 2021), President of the General Assembly of the Cooperative (2012-2024), member of the Scientific Council (since 1998), co-coordination of the research area of Inequalities, Migrations and Territory (2006-2022), member of the Executive Board of the Cooperative (2006-12), member of the Executive Board (1998-2000; 1995-8) and integrated researcher at CIES-IUL (since 1987). Member of the Executive Board (1998-2000) and researcher at OBSERVA - Observatory of the Environment, Society and Public Opinion (1997-2001). Researcher at Centre of Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (2005-6). Member of the Executive Board (1991-3) and researcher at Centre for Territorial Studies CET-IUL (1991-2005). Research scholarships at the Institute of Social Sciences (1990-1), the Permanent Observatory of University Students (1989-90), and the National Board for Scientific and Technological Research (JNICT) (1988-9). Researcher at Nucleus for Urban and Territorial Studies CIES-IUL (1987-91).  Collaboration in 59 research projects and studies, 32 as coordinator. Participation in 23 books, 25 scientific articles, 21 papers in scientific congress acts, and 98 oral communications in scientific events.  Member of the Editorial Council (since 2003) and the Editorial Board (1993-2018) of the journal Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas. Member of the Deontological Board (2006-10), the General Assembly (1994-8), the Coordination Commission of the Professional Field (1991-4), and associate (since 1988) of the Portuguese Sociological Association. Member of the International Sociological Association, and the European Urban Knowledge Network. Collaboration with diverse universities in Portugal and other countries, namely with University of Cabo Verde, Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, University of Stellenbosch, State University of St. Petersburg, Universidad de Las Palmas, and University of South Australia.

Luísa Veloso, sociologist. Associate Professor at Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Researcher at Cies-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Associate Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto. Professor of the Sociology Department of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto between 1991 and 2008. Coordinator and researcher of several national and international projects. Author and scientific coordinator of several publications. Main research interests: work, employment, innovation, science and technology, professions.

Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at Iscte-IUL and Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (since 2014). Member of the International Science Council (ISC) expert advisory panel on the Public Value of Science.  I was Marie Curie Fellow at LSE (2016-2018) (with Marie Curie Individual Fellowship) and Fulbright Scholar at Cornell University (New York) (2015-16) (with a Fulbright Scholarship). I completed my PhD in Science and Technology Studies (STS) at University College London (UCL) (2011), where I was Teaching Assistant (TA) for courses in Science Communication and Science Policy at UCL (2008-2012). I was a trainer at Esconet (European Network for Science Communication, EU funded project), training scientists how to communicate with publics (2009-12). Before my PhD, I worked for the European Commission (EC), at the DG Research, Infrastructures Unit, Brussels. Research interests: science communication, public understanding of science, science policy and research methods for social sciences. Current research focusses on institutional communication of science with society. Main awards and recognitions: International award from Euroscience: European Young Researcher Award' Laureate (EYRA) (2016) Recognition in the Book Ciência Viva 'Mulheres na Ciência' (2019)   Main recent and ongoing international projects: 1. PI (Principal Investigator) for the project ‘MORE-PE: Mobilising Resources for Public Engagement’ (2016-2021). Funding: €170.000, FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia).  2. PI (Principal Investigator) for the project 'OPEN: Organisational Public Engagement with Science and Technology' (2019-2023). Funding: €250.000, FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia). The MORE-PE and OPEN studies have been implemented in Portugal, Italy, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, the USA, Turkey, Brazil, Japan, Taiwan and China (mainland) to study science communication within institutional environments.  3. WP Leader for the EU funded project "POIESIS: Probing the impact of integrity and integration on societal trust in science" with a focus on research integrity and public trust in science in seven countries: Germany, France, Denmark, Greece, Portugal, Spain and the UK (2023 2025). Funding: €1.2M, European Commission (EC).  Website: https://poiesis-project.eu/ 4. Co-PI at Iscte for the study 'Public Opinion about Radan' (part of the EC project RadoNorm) in collaboration with APA (Associação Portuguesa do Ambiente) implemented under the protocol "Implementation of the National Plan for Radan" jointly with the partners: Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr Ricardo Jorge (INSA), Universidade de Coimbra (UC), Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC), Direção-Geral da Saúde (DGS), and Instituto Português de Acreditação (IPAC) (2023 - on). Funding: €150.000, APA Fundo Ambiental (FA). 5. PI of the study "Public attitudes and trust in Blockchain technology for Health" part of the project Blockchain.PT (PRR-RE-C05-i01.02: Agendas/Alianças verdes para a Inovação Empresarial) (2023-2026). Funding: €48M (€1.2M Iscte); PRR - Plano de Recuperação e Resilência e União Europeia ao abrigo do programa NextGenerationEU. 6. PI in Portugal for the project “Copy and Paste in (Digital) Science Communication: Praktiken von Churnalism and Verantwortungszuschreibungen [CoPaDiSC]” led by Dr. Lars Guenther from University of Hamburg. Comparative research on university press releases in four countries: Germany (University of Hamburg), Portugal (Iscte-IUL), South Africa (Stellenbosh University) and Israel (Tecnion-Israel Institute of Technology) (2024-2027). Funding: €597.548; BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)   Speaker in international events: I have been often invited to speak at international conferences including in China, Japan, Brazil and Europe, and as expert in discussions in the field (e.g. Bellagio Centre/Rockefeller Foundation, Como Lake, Italy (2018 and 2022), Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (2018), San Francisco, USA). Recent book published by Routledge (2022): 'Public Communication of Research Universities: ‘Arms-race’ for visibility or science substance?’, Routledge 

University Professor with 20 years of career experience in teaching, government and private consultancy and business. Professor P. Almeida began his career in 1994 in the Portuguese Central Bank (Banco de Portugal) in Lisbon. Professor P. Almeida has been devoting himself to a full time university teaching career since 1997. He is Professor at ISCTE-Lisbon University lecturing in Management, Organizations, Human Resources, Social Sciences, Public Policy and Labor Relations. Professor P. Almeida has also been an Invited Professor at the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP), at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA, Lisbon) and at the Portuguese Institute of Political Sciences and Internal Security (ISCPSI). He was Vice-President of the Portuguese Observatory of Security, Organized Crime and Terrorism (OSCOT) and of the Portuguese Transatlantic Institute (ITD). He is the President of the OPBPL - Portuguese Observatory of Good Labor Practices. He was an Opinion Columnist at DIÁRIO DE NOTÍCIAS, a Portuguese reference Newspaper, Jornal de Notícias, and written several articles in EXPRESSO, Público and Diário Económico. Professor P. Almeida published more than two hundred books and articles.

Pedro Vasconcelos completed his graduation in Sociology (Licentiate degree) in 1995 at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, his Research Master's Degree in Social Sciences in 2002 at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, and his Doctorate in Sociology at Iscte in 2011 (all Pre-Bologna Process). He teaches at graduate and post-graduate levels since 1996 at Iscte. Since 1992 he has participated in several research projects about issues such as categorization processes, social representations and identities, family and social class, generations and values, family and youth, sexuality, social networks, kinship, social inequalities, gender and transgender issues. Presently his main interests are about social and sociological theory, social inequality and multidimensionality, gender, class and racialization/ethnicity. 

PhD in Sociology at Iscte (Lisbon) and the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED, Paris), dissertation 'Self-reported bilingual outcomes and language acculturation among descendants of Turkish immigrants in France, Germany and the Netherlands', in the European project TIES (The Integration of the European Second Generation), as Earlier Stage Marie Curie, funded FCT/MCTES, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (FCG) as a PhD visitor at the Center for International Studies (CERI, Sciences Po, Paris). Since 2003, I work in the Sociology of international and Sociology of language, focusing in the population with migrant background (immigrants, refugees and their descendants) in Europe and Portugal, comparing policies on migration, asylum seeking, integration and language, bilingual education, academic language in higher education, Portuguese for speakers of other languages, pluricentricity of Portuguese language, at the institucional, family and individual levels.  Integrated at Iscte: researcher at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology and Invited Assistant Professor; member of the Scientific Council of Iscte; member of the Scientific Commission of the Department of Sociology; coordinator of the research group 'Migration, Mobiliy and Ethnicity' (CIES-Iscte).  Teaching master and undergraduate studies: theory and methods on language policies and practices; family, migration and educations; research design; observational field research; ethics and profession in Sociology; research design applied to studies on Humanitarian Action; Sociological theories; Object and Method in Sociology; Culture and Society. Teaching abroad: theory and methods on language policies and practices in two Eramus Mundus Masters (MFamily and NOSWEL), University of Stavanger; undergraduate and master studies in Social Work: ethnographic methods and research methods, the University of Makerere, Kampala.  Carrying out studies on language policies, practices and attitudes: in a post-doctoral research 'Konta bu storia: Linguistic Acculturation Patterns among Descendants of African Immigrants in Vale da Amoreira' (funded by FCT / MCTES, at CIES-Iscte, CELGA-ILTEC/UC, and CES-UC); co-coordinating a research 'Portuguese language policies for adult immigrants in Portugal with little or no schooling: institutionalization and challenges'; co-coordinating an action-research 'Trovoada de Ideias - Linguistic and Social Inclusion of PALOP Students in Portuguese Higher Education (with APEDI; CELGA-ILTEC/UC, funded by FAMI/ACM); coordinate an action-research 'MOCEP: Migrant Women, Cultural Orientation and Portuguese Teaching' (with APEDI, Penha de França Paris Council, CCC); local coordinator of 'Coop4Int - Strengthening Migrant Integration through cooperation between Portugal and Cabo Verde' (with BRU-Iscte; AUDAX-Iscte; Emigration Observatory-Iscte; ACM; AAI (Cape Verde). Organizing Committee: the 7th Biennial Conference Network Afroeuropeans: "Black In/Visibilities Contested”; Seminar 'Language and Literacy Policies and Practices'; Seminar ''Migration in Digital Space: experiences, change and resistance'; Round-Table on 'Linguistic Diversity in Portugal and Migratory Contexts' (CES/UC); 'Migration Experiences Meetings' (with CRIA). Associated Researcher: 'Global Governance'/SocioDigital Lab for Public Policy; Imiscoe European Network; Scientific Commision at CAPLE/Univ.Lisbon; Emigration Observatory (Iscte); RedeMigra (Iscte); APEDI; CELGA-ILTEC/UC; EDiSo; RMIR - Refugees and Migration, Cost Network New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe.

I am a sociologist (Ph.D at Univ.Lille 1/Iscte-IUL, 2007), a Professor of Sociology of Work and Labour Relations at the Lisbon University Institute (Iscte-IUL), and a Researcher at CIES-Iscte. I have previously held the position of Researcher at SOCIUS-ISEG-ULisboa (2007-2015) and ICS-ULisboa (2015-2024), having led national projects and the Portuguese representation in European projects. I have also been a member of the team of correspondents for the European Observatory of Working Life/Eurofound and have provided consultancy services to international agencies. My work has been published in the European Journal of Industrial Relations, Transfer, Cultural Trends, and International Journal of Police Science & Management, among other scientific journals, and I have also edited books and contributed to book chapters published by Routledge, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, l'Harmattan and other academic presses. I enjoy combining qualitative and quantitative methods and collaborating with colleagues from other disciplines.

Renato Miguel do Carmo is an associate professor (with habilitation) at the Department of Sociology of ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon and research fellow at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL), Portugal. He is Director of the Inequality Observatory  and participates in the scientific coordination of COLABOR. Issues such as social and spatial inequalities, welfare state, employment and labor market, public policy, mobilities and social capital have been at the core of his research projects. His  publications have appeared in Current Sociology, European Societies, Journal of Civil Society, Sociologia Ruralis, Time & Society, Sociological Research Online, Geoforum, Community Development, European Planning Studies, Journal of Labor and Society, and others. He has published 37 books (24 as editor and 13 as author or co-author), five of them published by international publishing houses (Bristol University Press, Berghahn, Palgrave, Springer, Annablume). Since obtaining PhD, he has received several scientific awards such as: João Ferreira de Almeida Award 2023 (1st edition); António Dornelas Award 2022; CIES-Iscte I&D Awards 2022; awarded with the ISCTE-IUL prizes for one of best international articles published in 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2019; award to the best article in the field of regional studies published in Portuguese journals in 2008 (Portuguese Association for Regional Development, APDR); special Prize of the Jury 2009 for the best article published in the journal Análise Social by a young researcher.   

Associate Professor with Habilitation at Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Director of Sociology Department. Researcher at CIES-Iscte, currently develops research in the areas of "Communication, Information Technologies and Health", "Health Literacy" and "Digital Health". ERASMUS coordinator of the Sociology Department. Associated Editor of the Observatório magazine (OBS * - http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs), member of the Scientific Committee of Edicciones-InCom-UAB and of the Editorial Committee of Revista de Comunicación y Salud (https://www.revistadecomunicacionysalud.es/index.php/rcys). Author of several books and articles in the areas of Health and Communication, Health Literacy, Network Communication and Youth and Media in Portugal.

Sociologist. Associate Professor at Iscte–University Institute of Lisbon (School of Sociology and Public Policy, Department of Sociology). Director of the ISCTE Soft Skills Lab (LCT-Iscte) and Chair of the Scientific Committee for Special Admission Routes to the Iscte University. Integrated researcher at CIES-Iscte, where she co-coordinates the Research Group on Inequalities, Work and Well-being. Her research focuses on social inequalities, social classes, and living standards, addressing emerging issues such as the trajectories and agency of higher education students, adults living alone, and older people in ageing societies. She has also contributed to the analysis of Welfare State reconfiguration, particularly in the domains of education and labour. In these contexts, she has coordinated and participated in national and international projects and consultancies, engaging in plural, interdisciplinary and intergenerational teams. As a lecturer, she has continuously invested in pedagogical innovation and in strengthening the connection between theory, methodology and empirical research practices. Mentoring and tutoring are a core dimension of her academic path, both through teaching and collegial cooperation, and through the design of innovative support mechanisms for students. In academic management, as Director of the ISCTE Soft Skills Lab and responsible for special admission routes – notably for Mature Students (23+) and Graduates from Professional Pathways – she has promoted comprehensive mentoring and tutoring programmes and developed innovative monitoring systems to prevent academic failure and dropout.   Her trajectory is further reinforced by active civic engagement and knowledge dissemination, through participation in associations, trade union activity and civil society initiatives, at both national and international levels.

Rui Pena Pires is a professor at ISCTE-IUL, where he completed his BA, MC, and PhD in Sociology, and is a researcher at CIES-IUL. He has been the scientific coordinator of the Portuguese Emigration Observatory (Observatório da Emigração) since 2009. Formerly, he was the head of the Department of Sociology and Pro-Vice-Rector at ISCTE-IUL. From 2007 to 2010 he was a member of the Management Board of the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) of the European Union (EU). His research interests include sociological theory, international migration and sociology of development. He is author of several publications, including the book Migrações e Integração: Teoria e Aplicações à Sociedade Portuguesa (Migration and Integration: Theory and Applications to the Study of Portuguese Society) (Celta 2003) and Atlas da Emigração Portuguesa (Atlas of Portuguese Emigration) (Mundos Sociais, 2023).

Sandra Mateus is a sociologist with a PhD in Sociology from Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (2014). She is a researcher at CIES-Iscte and an assistant professor at Iscte, where she heads the Master's programme in Education and Society and is coordinator of the 1st year of the degree in Sociology. She is an elected member of the CIES Scientific Committee. In Portugal, she is currently coordinating the European project H:ouse (AMIF), centred on housing challenges in the integration of refugees (2024-2026), and the European project Space4Us (Erasmus+), on the social inclusion of young people in vulnerable situations (2022-2024). She is pursuing a research programme on the ways in which the identities and belonging of young people of mixed origin are created in transnational family contexts. She has researched and taught in the areas of education, migration, social inequalities and youth, with a particular focus on the children of immigrants. She has authored and co-authored several publications, communications and conferences. Her teaching experience includes curricular units on "Learning Society" and "Children of Immigrants and Education" on Iscte's MA in Education and Society, and other units such as "Object and Method of Sociology", "Sociology of Education", "Educational Policies", "Integration in Migratory Processes", and "Multicultural Mediation in Educational Contexts". She has also taught at the Lisbon School of Education (2011) and the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (2005). She has been a trainer in various institutions and with different audiences, including teachers, social workers and animators. She was part of the national management team of the Escolhas Programme (2006-2008), coordinating the programme's communication, the area of children of immigrants and the training of local teams; and she was also part of the Informal Working Group for the Integration of Children of Immigrants, supported by ACIDI - High Commission for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue, IP. At this Institute, she was also a member of the Training Centre for raising awareness about the reception and integration of immigrants. Between 2009 and 2010, he learnt and used Stand Up Comedy for the public dissemination of science, through his participation in the "Cientistas de Pé" project.

Teresa Seabra (teresa.seabra@iscte-iul.pt) graduated in Pedagogy (1980) and Sociology (1989), master in Sociology (1995) and PhD in Sociology (2008). Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, ISCTE-IUL. Directed Master's Degree in Education and Society between 2002 and 2023. Researcher at the Center for Research and Sociology Studies at the University Institute of Lisbon (CIES-IUL) since 1993. Main fields of research: social inequalities in education; descendants of immigrants in school; family education; the school effect on school outcomes. Author and co-author of several articles in scientific journals, chapters of books and books. Among the publications, we highlight the book Adaptation and Adversity: the school performance of students of Indian and Cape Verdean origin in basic education, published in 2010 by the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS-UL). Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Sociology of Education of the Portuguese Association of Sociology (APS).

Tiago Lapa is an assistant professor and researcher at CIES-IUL, in the area of communication, in the Department of Sociology of the School of Sociology and Public Policy of ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Coordinates and / or teaches curricular units in the fields of digital sociology, communication and online methods of inquiry. He has around 10 years of experience in academic teaching in the area of sociology and communication sciences, having taught curricular units such as Sociology of Communication, Communication Theories and Communication Skills at ISCTE-IUL, but also in other national institutions, such as the ESECS of Polytechnic Institute of Leiria and the European University - Portugal. It is also in this area that he has carried out supervisions of master and doctoral studies, collaborated as a reviewer in publications and participates in COST and Erasmus + programs and in international scientific networks such as the World Internet Project and the European Media Coach Initiative, related to Internet studies , the digital divide and new media literacy. He also belongs to the advisory council of the Safe Internet Center of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). His scientific work has been published in the form of books, chapters and articles in indexed journals of international circulation.

Ana Pinto Martinho is the online editor of the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) in Portuguese and is a guest lecturer at ISCTE-IUL. She is also a researcher at OberCom – Communication Observatory and a research assistant at CIES-IUL. She is linked to several European research projects such as Newsreel, CoMMPASS, IBERIFIER and Algowatch, and is part of the Portuguese team that works on the Digital News Report, at the Reuters Institute for the Sutdy of Journalism, at the University of Oxford. She participates in studies by the EJO network, such as the study on European media coverage of migration issues. Her areas of research have focused on journalism practices, media changes brought about by the internet, issues of trust in journalism, algorithmic literacy, and lately issues linked to journalism and artificial intelligence As a journalist she directed the iGOV project, a media outlet dedicated to the areas of public administration, Government, eGovernment, open data and citizenship. She was also a journalist at the Portuguese edition of InformationWeek, director of the publication Interface – Administração Pública and worked for social media outlets such as Diário de Notícias, Semanário Sol, and then RTP Informação. She is currently working on her PhD, in Communication Sciences, at ISCTE. She has a Master's degree in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies (ISCTE) and a Degree in Social Communication (UBI).

Ana Teresa Afonso holds a Master's degree in Public Health (Global Health) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) (2021) and a Bachelor's degree in Nursing from ESEL - Polo CG in Lisbon (2008). During her undergraduate studies, she took part in the Erasmus programme at Malmö Högskola in Sweden. She is an Invited Auxiliar professor at the Department of Sociology, School of Sociology and Public Policy at ISCTE-IUL and teaches the curricular unit of Public Health in Humanitarian Action for the the Master of Humanitarian Action and ErasmusMundus at ISCTE-IUL. She has a vast curriculum and field experience in several humanitarian contexts (conflict and disaster settings) from clinical/technical roles to management and leadership for medium and large-scale emergency responses, with strong links to international organizations and humanitarian community: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) IOM UK-MED (World Health Organization EMT Initiative) - currently acts as Senior Health Consultant/Advisor in Humanitarian Health for the design/strategy and lead of integrated public health programs and health responses for health emergencies. Teresa led recent responses including cholera outbreaks in Malawi (also Cyclone aftermath) and Zambia and the Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda, among others. Teresa has developed operational and field experience, project  management and negotiation skills with local governments, donor agencies, UN partners and reporting processes in the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Africa (South Sudan, Guinea Bissau, Malawi), Bangladesh, Laos, Venezuela, Ukraine.  She participates in training and capacity-building projects for professionals in the humanitarian field and collaborates with international academic partners and institutions such as the University of Glasgow – “Migrant and Refugee Health in Humanitarian Emergencies”; the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), where she worked with the Humanitarian Health Crisis Center (HHCC); and the UK-HSA (Health Security Agency). Teresa is an experienced facilitator/trainer in Public Health, supporting trainings for: UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST)- Deployment course; READY Initiative (USAID) (f2f and online training programme aiming at strengthening local NGOs capacity to respond to infectious disease outbreaks) International Organization for Migration (IOM) - Afghanistan; Johanniter International -South Sudan or SAMS- Turkey.  iNGO UK-Med: She developed an organizational-level training package to enhance Outbreak preparedness and response competencies with workshops/webinars and large-scale simulation exercises (SIMEX), in a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach.  Her current research interests focus on access to and barriers to healthcare for migrant populations; assessment and improvement of public health systems and services in fragile contexts; communication and public health policies; health information systems; multisectoral coordination of emergency responses; and the training and professionalization of workers in the humanitarian sector.

Annelien Groten is an invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, School of Sociology and Public Policy of ISCTE-IUL. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the School of Human and Social Sciences at ISCTE-IUL. She  postgraduated in Development Studies (2003) from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and graduated in European Studies (2002) from the University of Amsterdam. Since 2019 she has been teaching at ISCTE-IUL in the fields of anthropology of humanitarian action and participatory evaluation. She is part of the research projects on humanitarian action 'HUMACT' and 'INOVHUMRE' implemented in collaboration with partnering universities. She also continues to be a practitioner in the field of monitoring and evaluation for which she works on various assignments across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Psychologist since 2000 (University of Lisbon), Postgraduation in Family and Community-based therapy by the School of Family and Community Therapy in Lisbon (2005-2007); Masters Degree (Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2007-2009, with internship at the Roberto Clemente Center in NYC 2009/2010). MHPSS (Mental Health and Psychosocial Support) Coordinator in Community-based and Humanitarian Projects (2010-2017), AMI, MSF, MdM and CVT. Consultant in MHPSS and Staff Care in Humanitarian contexts since 2016 (Humanité et Inclusion, Heartland Alliance International, UNHCR, IOM, War Trauma Foundation, HIAS and The Konterra Group). PhD in Anthropology at Iscte-IUL (2017-2020), with the dissertation: "Mobilities and resistances. Informal solidarity and acts of citizenship with refugees, asylum seekers and other mobile categories, in post-2015 Europe".   Invited Lecturer at ISCTE-IUL (Masters in Humanitarian Action) since 2019 and University of Algarve (Postgraduation in Humanitarian Action) since 2021. Trainer at EAPN (2022/2023). Postdoc researcher in project JUSTFUTURES (www.justfutures.pt) since June 2022. Activist Researcher at Europe Must Act, Forum Refugio Portugal and UREP. 

João Henriques is a Visiting Professor at Iscte-IUL's School of Sociology and Public Policy, and  Sintra School of Social and Business Sciences. He has a PhD in Sociology at Iscte-IUL, funded by FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology). His initial academic training is in the area of ​​Civil Engineering (Bachelor and Master), and later in Sociology (Master) and Data Analysis (Post-graduation). His master's and doctoral research topics focused on European identity and social cohesion in the EU. He is a researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES) where he has participated in studies in various thematic areas, such as social inequalities, environment and sustainable development, social cohesion, education, employment, family and work, and communication fo science.

Maria João Lima has a PhD in Sociology  by Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon. She holds a Master's degree in Ethnomusicology and a Bachelor's degree in Musicology (FCSH-UNL). She was a research assistant  at INET-MD-Instituto de Etnomusicologia Música e Dança (1995-2000) and at OAC - Cultural Activities Observatory (2001-2013). Her research is mainly focused on cultural policies, cultural audiences and cultural expressive practices. She is currently part of the research team of the Portuguese Observatory of Cultural Activities (https://www.opac.cies.iscte-iul.pt/).

Mehmet Ali Üzelgün is a Research Fellow in the Communication and Culture research group at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte) at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. He is also an Auxiliary Researcher at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) and an Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences, at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His research explores argumentative and rhetorical features of environmental discourse, specifically focusing on climate change risks, transitions, and activism. He simultaneously works on the ethics of public discourse and argument, with a specific interest in the relationship between narrative and argumentative formats. He coordinates the Portuguese participation in the international project "LiFi - Living with Wildfire: imagining, narrating and acting upon a changing climate”. He is a researcher at the Horizon Project MultiPoD - "Multilingual and Multicultural Spaces for Political Deliberation”, aimed at supporting citizen deliberation through the use of innovative technologies such as Culture-Specific Language Models.

Ph.D. in Communication Sciences. His research interests include studies sociology, communication sciences and the TV, radio, press and Internet studies sector. Author of the annual publication Digital News Report Portugal. Was awarded with five academic merit-based scholarships during his bachelor degree in Sociology and Strategic Planning. Participated as an author in over 50 research reports in the field of media and communication studies, 3 books, 3 book chapters at OberCom - Observatório da Comunicação, Iscte - Lisbon University Institute and MediaLab_Iscte. Is a member of IBERIFIER - Iberian Digital Media Observatory, SmartVote and of COST Action - Redressing Radical Polarisation: Strengthening European Civil Spheres facing Illiberal Digital Media (DepolarisingEU) (CA22165).

Sandra Palma Saleiro (sandra.saleiro@iscte-iul.pt). PhD in Sociology. Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL). Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, School of Sociology and Public Policy, of the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL). She has worked on research projects on gender, gender equality and gender violence; transgender, gender diversity; social inequalities and poverty and social exclusion; evaluation methodologies, evaluation of public policies and programs and projects. In her doctoral thesis entitled "Trans Genders. A sociological approach to gender diversity”,  she mapped the diversity of (trans) gender identities and expressions in Portuguese society. The most recent projects include the project "Gender Diversity, Citizenship and Health" at CIES-IUL, within the scope of the FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2016-2022); the coordination of “National Portuguese Study on the Needs of LGBTI+ Persons and the reasons for discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sexual characteristics”, financed by POISE (2021-2022); the  local coordination of the projet “Cávado + Equal. Equality and Reconciliation in personal, family and professional life” (2020-2023).