Biography

Anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. She is developing a post-doctoral project entitled ENGAGE - Promoting gender equality and social justice through social science communication and transmedia storytelling. Researcher in the UnCoveR - Sexual Violence in Portuguese Mediascape (2023-2026) project. She integrates the Democracy, Justice and Human Rights Research Group, the Research Group on Sexualities, and the Citizen Science and Education Working Group. With more than two decades of experience using audiovisual methodologies and arts-based research, her research interests centre on the study of gender and sexualities, mental health, and pop culture and on expanding the relationship between theory and practice of science communication and social sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Rights in Contemporary Societies (CES/III, 2019), Master in Cultural Psychiatry (FMUC, 2011). Has been part of national (Ouvir Vozes, MyGender, Equal.STEAM) and European (CILIA LGBTQI+, KINDER and REMO) projects as a researcher and consultant, invited lecturer at the MA and Ph.D. level in (mental) health, media and communication and contemporary studies, organized advanced training for postgraduate students and early career researchers on mental health in academia and social science communication and promoted outreach activities for different non-academic audiences.