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Teresa Cunha holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Coimbra in post-colonialisms and global citizenship, with a thesis entitled ‘Beyond an Indian Ocean of revolts. A feminist and post-colonial analysis of the authority and power strategies of women in Mozambique and Timor-Lester'. She carried out post-doctoral research in Feminist Economies in Mozambique, South Africa and Brazil (2011 to 2018). She has been a lecturer since 1980 and coordinating professor at the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra since 2020. Her research and training interests are feminisms and post-colonialisms; other economies and feminist economies of women; post-war transition, peace and memories; women's human rights.

Juliana Cristina Perlotti Piunti is a social scientist who completed her bachelor's degree at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) and her licentiate degree at the Júlio de Mesquita Filho University (UNESP Araraquara Campus) in 2008. She has a Master's and PhD in Education from UFSCar. She works as a sociology teacher and researcher at the Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP). Since 2015 she has been a member of the Committee for the Promotion of Human Rights, Ethnic-Racial Equality and Gender at the IFSP Sertãozinho Campus. She coordinated the outreach projects “Class, race and gender: understandings based on the life and work of Carolina Maria de Jesus” and “Actions to Promote Human Rights, Ethnic-Racial and Gender Equality”. She is a member of the Popular Legal Promoters Movement. Piunti is a member of the Society for Qualitative Research in Human Motricity (SPQMH). In 2024, she completed a post-doctoral research internship at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) as part of the project “Knowledge for confronting violence against black women in Brazil”.

Cristiano Gianolla is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra (UC), where he integrates the Research Group on Democracy, Justice and Human Rights. He obtained a PhD in Sociology and Political Science (cum Laude, Coimbra and Rome-Sapienza) by way of a dissertation on Gandhi's democratic theory and a comparative study of emerging political parties in India and Italy. Cristiano is the Principal Investigator of the UNPOP project (FCT, 2021-2025) and PI and WP leader of PROTEMO (HEU, 2024-2026) and of CO3 (HEU, 2024-2027) projects. He was a team member of the ECHOES (H2020, 2018-2021), ALICE (ERC, 2011-2016) and FRANET (2021-2022) projects. He is a co-founding and co-coordinating member of the “Inter-Thematic group on Migrations” and co-coordinates the research programme “Epistemologies of the South” at CES. He is coordinating editor of Alice News, editor of e-cadernos scientific journal and a reviewer for scientific journals. Cristiano co-coordinates the PhD course “Democratic Theories and Institutions” and the MA course “Critical Intercultural Dialogue” at the Faculty of Economics of the UC, where he also teaches on the PhD course “State, Democracy and Legal Pluralism”. His publications include authored and organised books, chapters, and articles on democratic theory, populism, emotion, narrative, post-colonialism, intercultural dialogue, citizenship, and migrations.

Cristiane do Socorro Loureiro Lima - PhD in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte with a doctoral internship at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. Master's and bachelor's degrees in Social Work from the Federal University of Pará (Brazil). Officer in the Pará Military Police (Brazil). PhD student in Democracy in the 21st Century (CES/FEUC- Portugal).

Maria Aparecida Casagrande - PhD student in the Postgraduate Programme in Education (UNESC), doing a sandwich PhD at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra/Portugal, developing the thesis “Trajectories, memories and coping: a study of women victims of femicide in the extreme south of Santa Catarina (2015-2020)”. Master in Education (UNESC). Member of the History and Memory of Education Research Group (GRUPEHME). Police officer and teacher on the training and postgraduate courses at the Santa Catarina Civil Police Academy. CAPES/BRASIL scholarship holder.

Robson Amaral da Silva - Graduated in Physical Education from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar-Brazil) and Pedagogy from Claretiano - Centro Universitário. Specialist in Leisure from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG-Brazil). Master's and PhD candidate in the Postgraduate Programme in Education (PPGE) at UFSCar, where he is developing his thesis “Lives in movement between walls and bridges: leisure and educational processes in the daily lives of Venezuelan refugees”. He is doing a doctoral internship at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra (UC) with a Sandwich Doctorate Abroad (SWE) scholarship funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq - Brazil). He is a member of the Brazilian College of Sports Sciences (CBCE) and the Society for Qualitative Research in Human Motricity (SPQMH).

Cristina del Villar-Toribio - is a PhD student in Psychology at the University of Seville. She has a master's degree in international migration, health and social welfare, and a master's degree in international development co-operation. Her research interests are migration, care practices, feminist studies, cultural psychology and qualitative methodologies.

Pilar Orrego-Gañán is a student on the PhD programme in Psychology at the University of Seville, in the line of research into psychosocial processes, diversity, citizenship, and culture. Her thesis aims to better understand the process of reconstructing the identity of refugees and to analyse how this process can protect their psychological well-being. She currently coordinates the “Stories that matter” project, where she collaborates with various NGOs to publicise the experiences of some refugees in order to raise awareness in the community and, at the same time, boost their agency.