Research Teams

Nancy Duxbury, PhD, is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, and a member of the European Expert Network on Culture. She is Principal Investigator of CREATOUR. Past research examined culture in local sustainable development; culture-based development models in smaller communities; and cultural mapping, which bridges academic inquiry, community practice, and artistic approaches to understand and articulate place. Recent books: Animation of Public Space through the Arts: Toward More Sustainable Communities (Almedina 2013), Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry, and Culture and Sustainability in European Cities: Imagining Europolis (both Routledge 2015).

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Carlos Fortuna holds a Ph.D. (Sociology – State University of New York – Binghamton – 1989). Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Economics (University of Coimbra). Senior Researcher at the Center for Social Studies. Scientific Coordinator of the Doctoral Programmes in “Sociology” and “Sociology: Cities and Urban Cultures” (University of Coimbra). Areas of interest: Urban cultures; Tourism, heritage and memory; Identities and city images; Senses and the city. Author of various books. His most recent publication is “Simmel: A Estética e a Cidade” (Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade,2010)(Org.); Diálogos Urbanos (Coimbra, Almedina, 2013) (Ed.) and Cultura, Formação e Cidadania (Lisboa, GEPAC; 2015) (Various autors).

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Cláudia Pato Carvalho is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra under the “Arteria” project (operation no. CENTRO-07-2114-FEDER-000022, Portugal 2020). It is an action-research project in collaboration with O Teatrão (oficina Municipal do Teatro, Coimbra) that aims at the creation of a cultural programming network in the Centro Region and the creation of artistic intervention projects in eight cities of the Centro. She completed her PhD in Sociology, specialization in Sociology of Culture, Knowledge and Communication, at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra in October 2010, in collaboration with the Center for Reflective Community Practice (DUSP, MIT).

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Fiona Eva Bakas is a critical tourism researcher with international teaching experience. She holds a PhD Tourism (Otago University, 2014), an MSc Ecotourism (Portsmouth University, 2004) and a BSc (Hons) Biotechnology with European Studies (University of Nottingham, 1999). With 20 years of varied work experience, she is now a postdoctoral researcher in a nationwide project on creative tourism in rural areas and small cities (CREATOUR), at Centre for Social Studies, Portugal. Fiona has published in peer-reviewed journals on aspects of creative and cultural tourism, gender in tourism labour, qualitative methodologies, handicrafts, entrepreneurship, rural tourism, ecotourism, and feminist economics.

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Lorena Sancho Querol is postdoctoral researcher in the area of Social Museology at the Centre for Social Studies.
Her most recent project “SoMus: Society in the Museum”, is concerned with the definition of new models of participatory management in local museums. Together with Paulo Peixoto, from 2018 onwards she coordinates the H-2020 project European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities (ECHOES).
Lorena conceptualizes cultural participation as “a set of cocreative and evolving sociocultural dynamics intertwining micro and macro-participation, according to place specificities and to the needs, values and dreams of people conforming local society” (Sancho Querol 2017: 44 ).

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Miroslav Tascu-Stavre holds a Degree in Political Science, a Master in Political Theory and a PhD in Political Science from the National School of Political Science and Public Administration in Bucharest, his research focuses on sustainability, cultural tourism and local communities in touristic areas. He is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters, Department of Cultural Studies (Romania), teaching seminars and laboratories concerning Methodology for Social Research, Cultural Policies in European Context, European Institution, Transition and Democracy. Since 2003, he has worked part-time in the organisation of Stufstock festival, one of the most important alternative rock festivals in Romania.

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Paulo Peixoto holds a doctorate in sociology (UC | 2007), he is professor at the University of Coimbra (FEUC) and researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), integrating the research group on “Cities, Culture and Architecture (CCArq)”. He is member of “Art, Culture and Power (CNPq/UERJ), university where he was visiting Professor in 2014. Paulo is also member of the research groups “Geography, Tourism and Cultural Heritage” (CNPq/UNICAMP) and “TuPaC -Tourism and Cultural Heritage ” (CNPq/UFSM). He is collaborator of “Laboratory of Urban and Cultural Studies” (CNPq /UFS). Integrates and coordinates the Observatory for Education and Training Policies (CES/ULHT). Coordinates the Master’s degree in Sociology at FEUC.

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Silvia Silva 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. Currently she is a PhD student in Sociology, developing a thesis with the proposed theme “Qualified Portuguese migration: identity, expectations and mobility strategies of cultural and creative professionals”. She is Research Manager on CREATOUR. She held several research activities, developing projects with cooperation with several research centres.
Main research interest: cities and urban cultures; cultural policies and practices; higher education; skilled migrations.

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Tiago Castro holds a Degree in Tourism Management and Planning, a Master in Urban and Regional Planning, by the University of Aveiro and a Specialization in Management and Production of Shows by the University Lusófona of Porto. He was an active member and associative leader of the Experimental Theater Group of the University of Aveiro (GrETUA). In the last 10 years, he has worked mainly in the cultural sector as a producer, manager, trainer, creator and actor (national and international level). Since 2012, he has combined the roles as cultural manager and urban planner at 4iS – Platform for Social Innovation. He collaborates as a mentor in the Tandem Ukraine program and is an active member of the European networks CitizensLab and Tandem. Currently, he is a Junior Researcher under the CREATOUR project.

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Jaime Serra holds a PhD in Tourism from the Faculty of Economics – University of Algarve, Portugal (2014). He concludes his master degree in Management (specialization in Marketing) by the University of Évora, Portugal (2006) and the Degree in Tourism Management and Strategy at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Portugal (2000). He is Assistant Professor of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Évora in the field of Tourism Studies (Bachelor and Master degrees). He is also researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Culture and Societies (CIDEHUS) – University of Évora. His research interests are in the field of tourism demand trends; tourist behaviour; tourism and demography; applied quantitative methods. Coordinator of the CREATIVE TOURISM LAB at CIDEHUS.

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Josefina Salvado holds a PhD in Tourism and a MsC in Tourism Management and development (Aveiro University); MBA in Marketing (IESF);degrees in Economics (Coimbra University) and Financial Auditing (ISCAA). PhD student in Food Heritage: Cultures and Identities (Coimbra University).
Researcher at CIDEHUS (Évora University) and GOVCOPP (Aveiro University) working in CREATOUR Project and Post-doc research at CIDEHYS about storytelling and Cultural and Creative Tourism. Core Research Fields are Wine Tourism & Gastronomy; Travel Distribution; Cultural and Creative Tourism.
University Teaching experience (since 2012) and University Management practice (Scientific Council, courses coordination, Editorial council journals).

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Noémi Marujo, Assistant Professor of the School of Social Sciences at University of Évora in the field of tourism studies. PhD in Tourism (Universidade de Évora, 2012), Master’s Degree in Sociology (Universidade de Évora, 2004), Degree in Social Communication (Universidade da Beira Interior, 1996), DEA (Part of PhD Curriculum) in Tourism, Leisure and Culture (Universidade de Coimbra, 2010). Integrated Member of Research CIDEHUS. Scientific Council Member of CIDEHUS. Member of the UNESCO Chair Team in “Intangible Heritage and Traditional Know-How: Linking Heritage” (University of Évora – Portugal).

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Sara Albino is a Guest Associate Researcher of the School of Social Sciences at University of Évora in the field of tourism studies. PhD in Tourism Planning and Development (University of Lisbon and University of Exeter, 2015), Master’s Degree in European Policies (University of Lisbon, 2009), Degree in European Studies (University of Lisbon, 2006), Foundation Course in Design Studies (Surry Institute of Art and Design University College – 2001). International Contact Point of the Erasmus National Agency in Portugal, for external cooperation with non-EU Countries (2014-2016). Integrated Member of Research CIDEHUS. Scientific Council Member of CIDEHUS. Member of the UNESCO Chair Team in “Intangible Heritage and Traditional Know-How: Linking Heritage” (University of Évora – Portugal). Member of CIEBA, Research Centre in Studies of Fine Arts (University of Lisbon). Co-Founder of Buinho Creative Hub, the Rural Fablab of Baixo Alentejo.

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Maria do Rosário Borges is a Professor in the degree in Tourism; degree in Language and Literature; degree in Cultural Heritage; and in the Master in Tourism and Destination and Product Development. She is Researcher at CIDEHUS research centre and Member of Alentejo Sustainable Tourism Observatory.

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Alexandra Gonçalves is an Integrated Researcher at CinTurs (Research Center on Tourism, Sustainability and Wellbeing) and Adjoint Professor of the School of Management, Tourism and Hospitality from the University of the Algarve. From December 2013 to December 2018 she was Regional Director of Culture of the Algarve, having been councilor of the Municipality of Faro – areas of Culture, Social Action, Health, Advertising, Economy and Tourism, from 2009 to 2013. PhD in Tourism by the University of Évora and Master in Management and Administration of Cultural Heritage, by the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of University of Algarve and University of Paris-8, she has several articles and research published in tourism, cultural heritage and events. She collaborates in several research projects in these areas, highlighting the CREATOUR project, where she is the lead researcher for the regional team of the University of Algarve.

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João Filipe Marques holds a Degree and a MA in Social Anthropology and a PhD in Sociology by the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales of Paris. He is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Algarve and integrated researcher at the Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics (CIEO – UAlg). Currently he is the Director of the Sociology Master Program and member of the Board of the inter-university doctoral program «OpenSoc – Sociology: Knowledge for Inclusive and Open Societies». He has been teaching Social Sciences and Sociological Theories since the 1990’s and is main field of research has been the Sociology of Racism and Ethnicity. Recently is research interests shifted towards the sociology of tourism, leisure and travel and he has been teaching Sociology of Tourism in the Sociology Programs of the University of Algarve.

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Mirian Nogueira Tavares is Associate Professor at the University of Algarve. With academic studies in Communication Sciences, Semiotics and Cultural Studies (Ph.D. in Communication and Contemporary Culture, from the Federal University of Bahia), she has developed research work and theoretical production in fields related to Cinema, Literature and other Arts, as well as artistic and aesthetic film studies. As a lecturer at the University of Algarve, she has participated in the development of the Visual Arts degree, the Master?s programmes in Communication, Culture and Arts and Cultural Management and the PhD programmes in Communication, Culture and Arts and Digital Media and Arts. She is the current Coordinator of CIAC (Arts and communication Research Centre), funded by FCT.

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Sónia Cabeça, PhD, Sociologist, with thesis on fanaticism, and cultural forms. Integrated researcher at the Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics (CIEO) and researcher at the UNESCO chair in Intangible Heritage and Traditional Know-How: Linking Heritage. Specialist in Ethnossociology and Intangible Heritage, devoted several years to the study of Cante Alentejano, a traditional chant from Alentejo, and its bearers, having written the doctoral thesis “Structure and Formation Process of Cultural Forms: the case of Cante Alentejano” (2016). Is currently post doctorate in the project CREATOUR, working on creative tourism, cultural mapping, cultural heritage, and sustainability.

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Pedro Costa is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Economy at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) and Director of DINAMIA’CET-IUL (Research Center on Socioeconomic Change and Territory), where he coordinates the “Cities and Territories” research group. He is an economist, and holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning. He works primarily in the areas of territorial development, planning, and cultural economics. He is the author of many publications and has been involved in multiple research projects in these areas, at national and international levels.

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Ana Rita Cruz is a sociologist and researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-IUL. Since 2012, she has been part of the “Cities and Territories” research group where she has been working on the contributions of tourism to the promotion of cultural and creative dynamics in the territory. Currently is a member of the project team of CREATOUR Project, which aims to develop an integrated approach to creative tourism in small towns and rural areas in Portugal. Ana Rita Cruz holds a PhD in Tourism Studies and a Master in Tourism Destination Management and Development by the Faculty of Economics of the University of Algarve, where she collaborates as an invited assistant professor.

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Margarida Perestrelo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Research Methods, School of Sociology and Public Policy, ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon University Institute), and a researcher at DINÂMIA’CET–IUL, Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies. She holds a PhD in Sociology, specializing in Theories and Methods of Sociology. Her main areas of research are Data Analysis applied to Social Sciences and Prospective Methodologies applied to the Territory, Structural Analysis, Analysis of Subsystems, Actors Strategy Analysis and Scenarios. Author of many publications, she has been involved in multiple research projects in the area of Territorial Prospective.

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Maria Assunção Gato is a researcher at the DINÂMIA’CET–IUL and has a post-doctoral scholarship granted by the Foundation for Science and Technology at the same institution. She holds a PhD in Cultural and Social Anthropology, and her research interests have been focused in the domains of Urban Anthropology and Sociology, exploring topics such as: consumption, social classes, lifestyles, values and meanings of urban territories. Author of several publications related to these topics, she is also team member of some interdisciplinary research projects, including the CREATOUR.

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Special collaboration in CREATOUR, in the DINÂMIA’CET-IUL team.

Maria Cadarso is an Invited Assistant Professor at IADE – Creative University / Laureate International Universities, Lisbon and an Integrated Researcher at CIAUD – Design Center – FA ULisboa. She is the founder and Communication Designer of SUSTENTA DESIGN, which focuses on sustainability in product design. She has also served as a COST Independent External Advisor and a European Commission Independent Expert.

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Paula Cristina Almeida Cadima Remoaldo is an associate professor with habilitation of Human Geography in the Department of Geography of the Social Sciences Institute, University of Minho, Portugal. She got her PhD in Human Geography, in 1999, at the University of Minho with collaboration of Louvain-la-Neuve University. She is at present Head of the Department of Geography and Head of Lab2PT (Laboratory of Landscape, Heritage and Territory) at University of Minho. She has published in the leading journals of Tourism such as Annals of Tourism Research and Current Issues in Tourism. Her main research fields are Cultural Tourism, Mega Events; Urban Tourism and Regional and Local Development.

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Isabel Freitas is an Associate Professor with Aggregation at Portucalense University, PhD in History, Correspondent of the Portuguese Academy of History, Director of the Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture. Collaborator in the Lab2PT Research Center and integrated in the Portucalense University Research Center REMIT. Coordinator of several projects at Portucalense University in the areas of heritage, culture and tourism. Collaborator in several other projects of valorization of the territory. In the scope of these projects several publications centered around themes related to territory, water and borders within the framework of Peninsular relations were developed.

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Juliana Araújo Alves holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Geography from the Universidade Federal do Amazonas (2009), institution where she obtained her master’s degree in Geography – ‘Territory and Environment’ (2011). She holds a PhD in Geography from Universidade do Minho (2017). Currently, she integrates the CREATOUR-Lab2PT team, where she is developing her post-doctorate in creative tourism. Her mais areas of interest are: environmental management, environmental noise, planning and territory management, S.I.G. and creative tourism.

Lílian Gavioli de Jesus holds a bachelor and a master’s degree in Geography from the State University of Londrina. She worked as a geography teacher for the State of Paraná’s Education Department and also worked as professor at the Universidade Norte do Paraná. She was one of the first professors to develop the Geography course team unit. In this university she also contributed to the courses of History and Pedagogy and in fact, the disciplines that she ministered were strictly related to her line of research, the teaching of Geography: practices, methodologies and reflections. She is currently a PhD student in Geography at the University of Minho and a researcher at CREATOUR-Lab2PT.

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Olga Matos holds a PhD in Archeology, is Adjunct Professor at IPVC and an integrated researcher at Lab2PT, University of Minho (Portugal). Works in the area of Cultural Heritage, Museology, Interpretation and Cultural Tourism. She has participated as a researcher in national and international projects, in jury competitions, in several national and international congresses as a speaker and also has an important number of publications in her area of interest.

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Ricardo Gôja Carvalho was born in Guimarães in 1989. In 2012, he graduated in Geography and Planning and, in 2015, obtained a master’s degree in Planning and Territory Management from Universidade do Minho. He is a PhD student of Geography and researcher of the CRETOUR-Lab2PT team. His areas of interest are: S.I.G., tourism, enogastronomic tourism and territory planning.

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Sara Catarina Gomes da Silva is Geographer and researcher at Lab2PT. Since 2015, she integrates the “Space and Representation research group (SpaceR)” of the “Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT)” at the University of Minho. She worked as a researcher in the area of tourism. Currently she is finishing her PhD in Geography of Crime. Her main research interests are in the area of Geography of Crime, Tourism and Geographic Information Systems.

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Vítor Ribeiro is Professor of Geography at the Department of Geography of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho and at the Department of Teacher Training at Paula Frassinetti’s School of Education. He holds a PhD in Geography and Regional Planning from the University of Minho/Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). He also has post-doctorate from University of Minho in the field of Educational Technology. He is an integrated member of the Lab2PT (Laboratory of Landscapes, Heritage and Territory) of the University of Minho. His main subjects of research are in the area of ​​Transport Geography, Geographic Information Systems, Tourism and Regional and Local Development, Crime Geography and Geographical Education, having in such fields several research publications in journals and books.

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