Biography

Researcher in the area of Social Museology at the Research Group 5 "URBAN CULTURES, SOCIABILITIES AND PARTICIPATION" (CULTURS) of the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. Graduated in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid (1995), Master (2005) and PhD in Social Museology (2012) from the Lusophone University of Lisbon, having performed her PhD on participatory inventories of intangible cultural heritage under the EEA Grants Project "Celebration of Coastal Culture" (PT0019/EEA-grants). In the post-doctorate I developed the SoMus project "Society in the Museum: study on cultural participation in local European museums" with the support of the Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal (2014-18). Between 2015 and 2016 I was visiting professor from abroad in the PVE/CAPES/Brazil Program. I was also part of the CREATOUR project coordination team, "Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas" (P-2020) between 2016 and 2020 and coordinator of the CES team in the ECHOES project: "European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities" (H-2020, ENG-GLOBALLY-01-2017) together with Paulo Peixoto. I am currently part of the coordination team of the IN SITU Project "Place-based Innovation of cultural and creative industries in non-urban areas" (HORIZON-CL2-2021-HERITAGE-01-03, Cultural and creative industries as a driver of innovation and competitiveness), and cocoordinate together with Catarina Almeida Marado the research and extension project "CONVENTUS. New looks at the building of the old Convent of São José in Lagoa" funded by the Municipality of Alagoa, in the Algarve (2023-2025). With a long teaching experience, among my research themes stands out the creation of participatory management models in local museums, the development of processes of social legitimation of cultural heritage through mechanisms of collective action such as cultural mapping or participatory inventories, the decolonial cultural mediation in museums and the creation of new museum typologies contributing to the cultural development of society.