Biography

Sílvia Silva is a member of the Research Group "Urban Cultures, Sociabilities and Participation" at CES and executive coordinator of the CREATOUR Observatory - Observatory on culture and tourism for local development. Currently she is a researcher in the Horizon Europe project "IN SITU: Place-based innovation of cultural and creative industries in non-urban areas" (Project no. 101061747, 2022-2026). Sílvia holds a degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics of University of Coimbra, institution where she obtained her master's degree in Cities and Urban Cultures with the dissertation "A recepção dos públicos da cultura: uma abordagem sobre os modos de recepção dos públicos d'A Escola da Noite" [The reception of cultural audiences: an approach on the modes of reception of A Escola da Noite audiences]. She also has a Diploma of Doctoral Studies (PhD course in Sociology). She held several research activities, in cooperation with public and private entities. She was researcher in the H2020 project "UNCHARTED: Understanding, Capturing and Fostering the Societal Value of Culture" (2020-2024), and Research Manager in the project "CREATOUR - Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas" (2016-2020), where she was directly collaborating with the research centers and the different entities from public and private sectors, culture, tourism and local development. Her main research interest issues are cities and urban cultures, cultural policies and practices; creative tourism; culture-based regional/local development; participation and collaborative practices.