Research
Current research interests
Media, Peace and Violence
Power, Internet and Technopolitics
Media and Masculinities
Research Projects
2023-03-01 - 2025-02-28 - "UNCOVER: sexual violence in the Portuguese mediascape", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by FCT.
2021-04-01 - 2024-03-31 - "MyGender", coordinated by Inês Amaral, sponsored by FCT.
2021-03-01 - 2024-02-28 - "UNPOP- UNPOP - Desmontar o Populismo: Comparando a formação de narrativas da emoção e os seus efeitos no comportamento polític", coordinated by Cristiano Gianolla, sponsored by FCT.
2021-01-01 - 2024-12-31 - "MEDIATIZED EU Mediatized Discourses on Europeanization and Their Representations in Public Perceptions", coordinated by Maria Raquel Freire, sponsored by European Commission.
2019-02-01 - 2021-01-31 - "Promotion, Awareness Raising and Engagement of men in Nurture Transformations", coordinated by Tatiana Moura, sponsored by Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme of the European Commission.
2018-10-01 - 2021-09-30 - "(De)Coding Masculinities: Towards an enhanced understanding of media's role in shaping perceptions of masculinities in Portugal", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.
2018-06-15 - 2021-06-14 - "(De)OTHERING - Deconstructing Risk and Otherness: hegemonic scripts and counter-narratives on migrants/refugees and 'internal Others' in Portuguese and European mediascapes"", coordinated by Gaia Giuliani and Sílvia Roque, sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.
2018-01-01 - 2019-12-31 - "EQUI-X - Promoting innovative-strategies addressing the construction of gender identities and engaging men and boys in non-violent models of masculinity", coordinated by Bakea Alonso Fernández de Avilés, sponsored by Comissão Europeia.
Project Partnership:
- CEPAIM-ES
- Beweging tegen Geweld
- Dissens
- Status M
2015-02-01 - 2015-06-30 - "Media and Masculinities in Nigeria", coordinated by GRM International / Palladium where she was Principal Investigator, sponsored by DFID.
Project Partnership:
- Voices for Change (V4C) - Nigeria
2015-01-01 - 2020-12-31 - "Cidades e regiões - a paradiplomacia portuguesa", coordinated by Professor Luís Moita, Observare, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.
2015 - 2016 - "EMERGE - Men, Boys and Gender Equality. Case Study 5", coordinated by Promundo-US where she was Principal Investigator, sponsored by DFID.
Project Partnership:
- Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
- Sonke Gender Justice Network
2013 - 2016 - " "Adapting the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), to urban settings of Post-Conflict and Urban Violence: "IMAGES-PC+UV" "", coordinated by Tatiana Moura , sponsored by International Development Research Centre - Canada.
Project Partnership:
- Centro de Formação Jurídica e Judiciária (Maputo)
- Peace Research Institute Oslo
- Instituto Promundo
2012 - 2014 - "Emerging Powers", coordinated by José Manuel Pureza, sponsored by Coordenado por Grupo de Estudos para a Paz, financiado por Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre..
Project Partnership:
- Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre
2011-09-01 - 2013-12-31 - "EN "Women, Peace and Security: the implementation of the Security Council Resolution 1325 in Portugal"", coordinated by Tatiana Moura e Teresa Cunha, sponsored by Comissão para a Igualdade de Género.
Project Partnership:
- Acção para a Justiça e Paz