Bia Carneiro (CES-University of Coimbra)

Bia is a PhD Sociology candidate in the programme "Labour Relations, Social Inequalities and Trade Unionism" at the Centre For Social Studies/Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra. She holds a Joint Major Communication and Latin American Studies from Simon Fraser University, Canada; a specialization in Social Policy Management from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil; and a MSc Social Policy and Development (Merit) from London School of Economics, UK. In between her academic pursuits, Bia gained more than ten years of professional experience with civil society organizations in Brazil, Canada and the UK. Her current research interests are social movements, young workers, Web 2.0, and digital methods.

Cristina Sala (University of Deusto)

Cristina Sala Valdés is researcher at the Institute of Peace and Development Studies (IEPC – University of Oviedo) and counsellor and tutor of MA subjects within the Campus for Peace (Open University of Catalonia). She holds a PHD from the University of Deusto with a dissertation dedicated to “Pathways of Communications for Peace. Conceptualization, Critic Review and Proposals from the lenses of Communication towards Social Change and Conflict Transformation Theory” (University of Deusto). She also holds a MA in Evaluation of Public Policies and Programs (Complutense University). Cristina has completed two years research period (Marie Curie Research Grant) within the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Uppsala University and the Centre for Social studies, University of Coimbra. She is author of several articles, chapters in books and study materials that explore the intersections between communication, peace and developments. Besides her academic appointments, Cristina works as consultant for the Basque Office of UNHCR and the Spanish Association of Evaluation (APROEVAL). As a member of the European Union Latin America Relations Observatory (OBREAL) she is committed to develop participatory processes that help building sustainable peace in Colombia.

Florencia Enghel (Stockholm University)

Florencia Enghel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Media at the University of Stockholm. She is from Argentina, and obtained her Ph.D. in Media and Communication Studies from Karlstad University in Sweden in 2014. Her doctoral thesis, which analyzes the characteristics and consequences of post-conflict international development communication intervention in the successor states to the former Yugoslavia, received the 2015 Dissertation Award granted by the Swedish Association for Media and Communication Research. She has been awarded research scholarships from the Helge Ax:son Johnsons and Wahlgrenska foundations (in 2012, 2014 and 2015 respectively). Since 2010 she serves as Vice-Chair of the Participatory Communication Research Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). In 2012 she co-edited the special issue of Nordicom Review "Communication, Media and Development: Problems and Perspectives" with Prof. Karin Wilkins (University of Texas at Austin, US). She is interested in questions regarding the role, ethics and political economy of communication in processes of social change, with an eye to the advancement of the civic right to communication and the achievement of justice.

José Manuel Mendes (FEUC/CES-University of Coimbra)

José Manuel Mendes holds a PhD in Sociology by the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra, where he is an Assistant Professor with Aggregation. He is also researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, where he has been working in the fields of inequalities, social mobility, social movements and collective action and, more recently, on the themes of risk and social vulnerability. He is coordinator of the Risk Observatory (OSIRIS) of the Centre for Social Studies and is the Editor of Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais.

Manuel Chaparro (University of Malaga)

Manuel Chaparro is journalist and holds a PhD in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. He is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Communications at the University of Málaga, master teacher at the universities of UMA, USE, UCA and Pablo Olavide, and member of the European network IREN. He has been a consultant to the AECID in Guatemala and Bolivia. He has participated in forums of analysis for the reform of the audiovisual legislation in Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia and Guatemala. Coordinator since 2001 cooperation projects in Media in Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvador and Argentina. Manuel is also member of the advisory board of the journals: The Journal Radio (International), ALAIC (Latin America), Intercom (Brazil), Audiovisual Communication for inclusion (Argentina) and social studies for the development of communication, and the European Institute of Communication and Development (Spain).He has published more than seventy articles and research on radio, television, communication and development, alternative media, citizen participation. He is author of the books: “Radio pública local”. “Radiotelevisión alternativa. Perspectivas”(ed.). “La democratización de los medios”(ed.), “Sorprender al futuro: Comunicación para el desarrollo e Información Audiovisual”, “Comunicación Ciudadana”(ed.), “Memorias Chipayas” y “La Comunicación-Cooperación con el Magreb”. He is also founder and director of the Association of Municipal and Community Radio Broadcasting Andalusia (www.emartv.com). He has received numerous awards in recognition of his professional journalistic work.

Marta Lança (Buala/FCSH-UNL)

Marta is a Phd candidate on Artistic Studies at FCSH - University Nova de Lisboa where she holds a post graduation degree in Portuguese Literature. She has been working as a free-lance journalist, translator, editor and producer. Having widely written for the Portuguese mainstream press (Público, Diário de Notícias, Le Monde Diplomatique, LER), Lança was chief-editor of V-Ludo cultural magazine (2000-01). These editing experiences lead her to Cape Verde, where she launched cultural magazine Dá Fala, support by Gulbenkian and IPAD (2004). From that period on, Lança’s focus has turned into contemporary culture in African Portuguese-speaking countries. She lived in Luanda for three years where, besides working as a journalist and teaching Literature at Agostinho Neto University, she collaborated with Luanda Triennalel and worked at Luanda Film Festival. In 2009, she worked at DOCKANEMA, Maputo’s Documentary film festival. She has worked as reasearcher and producer in film documentaries, namely Eu Sou África, (2010); Triângulo (2012); No trilho dos Naturalistas (2014). In 2010, she launched the website BUALA (at São Paulo Biennial) - an archive of articles an images on postcolonial - of which she is Chief-Editor. She also worked as Chief-Editor of Rede Angola (2014). As a curator, she organized Roça Língua (S. Tomé e Príncipe 2011), an encounter and book for portuguese speaking writers, and Paisagens Efémeras, an exhibition and symposium about Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (2015). She translated to portuguese A Crítica da Razão Negra, by Achille Mmbembe and organized a collaborative book about the topic of Body in essays and artistic’s studies.

Patrícia Mota Paula (CES-University of Coimbra)

Patrícia Mota Paula, 39 years old, is a Postdoc Researcher at CES-University of Coimbra. She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences (with specialization in Communication for Development), a MA in African Studies, both from ISCTE-IUL, a Post-Graduation in International Journalism and graduated in Communication Sciences (with specialization in Journalism), both from Autonomous University of Lisbon (UAL). She was the Project Manager of the Media Program of European Union in East Timor (01/03/2014 - 01/03/2015) and in the past 12 years she worked in Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique (as a Journalist, as a Senior Researcher, as a University Teacher and as a Program Coordinator) with relevant experience in Community Media (radio, television, newspapers and telecentres) in order to devise and implement projects on Communication for Development (C4D) and Communication for Integration (C4I) areas. A significant part of her work has been, namely: empower local media within rural communities and monitoring and evaluating community radio projects in these two countries in Lusophone Africa. As a ‘Media for Development’ expert, she has been a speaker in several countries (Portugal, Spain, England, Brazil, Argentina, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, East-Timor), presenting communications in distinct international conferences and has published multiple articles and book chapters in indexed journals at national and international level. She is an africanist journalist since 1999 (nowadays free-lancer) and member of theC4D Network.

Pedro Santos (Citizenship Academy)

He has a degree in Social Communication and Multimedia Education from the Education and Social Sciences College of the Polytecgnic Institute of Leiria. For six years and a half he was journalist in the Portuguese national magazine Visão where he covered topics related with Environment and Society and managed the sections ‘Green’, ‘Travels’ and ‘Sete’ on the magazine’s website. Since 2014, he works in the project Rios Livres in the environmentalist NGO GEOTA - Grupo de Estudos de Ordenamento do Território e Ambiente - as communications coordinator and project assistant. Within the civic and political sphere, as a BA student, he was the president of the Students Association and worked in the students radio and was member of different counselling committees. In 2011, he was part of the group which organised the ‘Geração à Rasca’ protest in Portugal and which later founded the M12M Mouvement (2011). He also helped to create the Citizenship Debt Audit Initiative (IAC) in 2011 and he is one of the co-founders of the Citizenship Academy (2012). In 2014, he was awarded with The European Democratic Citizenship Awards, in the category of Personality of the Year organised by the European Civic Forum.

Sara Araújo (CES-University of Coimbra)

Sara Araújo is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies and a member of the Research Group on Democracy, Citizenship and Law. She is co-coordinator of the project "ALICE - Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experience", in which thinking and research is being developed from the proposal of the Epistemologies of the South. Sara Araújo holds a PhD in "Law, Justice, and Citizenship in the Twenty First Century" from the University of Coimbra. Her master dissertation was awarded with the Prize Agostinho da Silva by the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. She was part of the Permanent Observatory for the Portuguese Justice and has been a member of the bi-national research team for the Revision of the Judicial Organization of Mozambique. Her main research interests are on issues related to legal pluralism, access to justice, community justice/Alternative Dispute Resolution/Informal Justice, Justice Administration in Africa, human rights and interculturality, ecology of knowledges and ecology of justices

Sofia José Santos (OBSERVARE-UAL/CES-University of Coimbra)

Sofia José Santos is a Postdoc Researcher at Observare, Autonomous University of Lisbon, Associate researcher at the Humanities, Migrations and Peace Studies Research Group (NHUMEP) at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, and freelance journalist. She holds a PhD and a MA in "International Politics and Conflict Resolution", School of Economics, University of Coimbra, a BsC in International Relations from the same faculty, and a specialization in Journalism from the Centre for Journalist Professional Training (CENJOR), Lisbon. She was junior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra from 2008 to 2015, where she also co-coordinated and co-edited the P@x Online bulletin, from 2008 to 2014. Previously, she was junior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (2008-2015), researcher and coordinator for media and communications of Promundo-Europe (2014-2015), journalist and editor of Rede Angola (2013), main officer at the International Office of Coimbra College of Education (2005-2007), and intern at the UN Information Centre, in Lisbon (2003). She has done different consultancy works for IDS, DFID and Promundo. In February 2009, she completed a six month research/mobility period at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, supervised by Professor Ton Robben. She was also a visiting scholar at the Flemish Peace Institute in 2010, supervised by Dr. Tomas Baum. She has lectured in different universities (Bsc, MA and PhD degrees), presented communications in distinct international conferences and have published different articles and book chapters on media and international relations. Her current research interests include: media, peace and violences; peace media, peacebuilding and the liberal peace; media and international relations; media and contestation politics; security, privacy and human rights; cities and paradiplomacy; masculinities and violence prevention.

Teresa Almeida Cravo (FEUC/CES-University of Coimbra)

Teresa Almeida Cravo is a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, at the Humanities, Migration and Peace Studies Research Group, and an Assistant Professor in International Relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. She is currently co-coordinator of the PhD Programme Democracy in the XXIst Century and coordinator of the Master Programme in International Relations at the University of Coimbra. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, Department of Politics and International Studies. Her thesis developed a critique of development aid discourses of success and failure in post-conflict states in Africa, focusing on Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau. She graduated in International Relations from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, in Portugal. She completed a diploma on Human Rights and Democratization in the Law Faculty at the same University and was later awarded a Master of Arts in Peace Studies from Bradford University, in the United Kingdom. Teresa was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Westminster between 2013 and 2015, to develop her post-doc research project on international interventionism in peripheral states. She was an Associate of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2010-2011, after holding a Predoctoral Fellowship at their International Security Program and the Intrastate Conflict Program between 2008-2010.

Víctor Manuel Marí (University of Cadiz)

Victor Manuel Mari Saez holds a degree in Communication Sciences (Universidad Complutense) and a PhD in Journalism (University of Sevilla). Currently he is Professor of Communication Theory and Communication for Development and Social Change at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication of the University of Cadiz (Spain). He is director of the Commons. Journal of Communication and Digital Citizenship, and principal investigator of the project "Communication for Development and Social Change in Spain: design of indicators for measuring its social impact" (2015-2017) of the National Research Plan of Spain. He has published widely on the topic of communication and social change, namely: “Construir conhecimento partindo das margens: informação, conhecimento e movimentos sociais”, Revista Transinformaçao (Universidad de Campiñas) (2012), Jóvenes, redes tecnológicas y tramas de sentido, Revista Interaççoes (Portugal) (2010); “Crítica del concepto de ‘capital social’ (Putnam) y propuesta del enfoque de ‘capital informacional’ (Hamelink) para el análisis y el diseño de estrategias de apropiación social de las TIC por parte de los movimientos sociales, Revista EPTIC online (Brasil); “Comunicar para transformar, transformar para comunicar. TIC desde una perspectiva de cambio social” (Editorial Popular, Madrid, 2011).