Bio notes

Inês Morais: PhD in Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon. Executive Assistant in the African European Narratives project of the Instituto de Comunicação da Nova (ICNOVA), integrated in the Europe for Citizens programme. Academic experience in Angola, at the Instituto Superior Politécnico Sol Nascente, as teacher and researcher. Research scholarship from the Centre for English Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon. Presentation at national and international conferences in Athens, Berlin, London, Los Angeles. Emerging Scholar Award presented at the "Arts in Society" conference in Paris (2017).

José Manuel Reis: PhD in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His areas of interest include economic sociology, political economy, political sociology, sociology of culture, and their mutual relations.

Nina Amelung: Sociologist and research fellow at Institute of Social Science, Universidade de Lisboa, since November 2020. She obtained her PhD in Sociology from the Technical University of Berlin in February 2018 with a thesis entitled “Democracy Under Construction: The Micro-politics of Ordering Transnational Citizen Engagement”. She expanded her expertise developed throughout her PhD-thesis and developed her current main research theme since 2016 when she joined the ERC-funded project EXCHANGE (first based at CES Coimbra, later at CECS/University of Minho). Her research interests lie at the intersection of Sociology of Culture, Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Critical Migration Studies. While addressing how particular social groups and wider publics are affected by different biometric database systems, she explores relations between emergent publics, matters of citizenship and biometric technologies applied in migration and crime control regimes.

Pedro Macedo: Researcher and activist in the area of climate change, with emphasis on the project "Municipalities in Transition". PhD candidate in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Climate Reality Leader trained by Al Gore, responsible for the project "A Forest for the Climate", cooperator of Coopérnico, activist in Extinction Rebellion, in Scientists for Future, among other networks. Has over 20 years of professional experience in the field of environmental education, territorial planning and citizen mobilization. Has facilitated sustainability initiatives in more than 60 communities.

Rita Grácio: Sociologist, PhD from the University of Exeter (United Kingdom), BA and MA from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. She is a researcher at CICANT (Research Centre in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies) at Lusófona University, where she is also a lecturer. Currently she participates in several research projects based at Lusófona University, such as muSEAum (FCT) or filmEU (www.filmeu.pt, Horizonte2020), having in the past participated in other projects like "New Poetics of Resistance" (CES-UC) and "History of Visual Culture in Medecine" (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa). Her research interests are in the area of sociology of arts and culture.