My work centres around the geopolitics of culture, cultural diplomacy and relations, cultural/audiovisual policy, and culture in sustainable development, focusing primary on the European Union and its global action. I’m Part-time Professor in the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute. Before, I was Principal Investigator for Erasmus University Rotterdam on REBOOT, another Horizon Europe project focused on the European Film Industry. As an academic, I have contributed to successful grant applications in a total of €11.5 million.
My work is driven by the aim to inform EU policy. It has been cited in documents by and for the European Parliament (here, here and here), the European Council (here) and the European Commission (here). I have also addressed the European Parliament’s CULT Committee – a 2024 intervention on EU cultural diplomacy c n be watched here and a 2021 intervention on the status of artists and cultural workers can be watched here. Additionally, I have worked as an independent EU policy advisor and consultant.
As a Portuguese and British citizen, I am committed to strengthening UK–EU relations through cultural and media policy. I am co-founder and co-chair of the Forum on EU-UK Cultural & Media Relations and support several UK-based organisations on a pro bono basis: the British Foreign Policy Group, the UK Coalition for Cultural Diversity, and the Portuguese Association of Researchers and Students in the UK (PARSUK).
I hold a PhD in Visual Culture from Goldsmiths, University of London, an MA in Politics/European Studies from UCLouvain, and a BSc in Sociology from ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute.
I’m trilingual in English, French and Portuguese.
CURRENT ROLEs
Part-time Professor, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute
Co-founder and co-chair, Forum on EU-UK Cultural & Media Relations
Editorial Advisory Board, Cultural Trends
Member, European Expert Network on Culture
Scientific Council Member, Portuguese Association of Researchers and Students in the UK (PARSUK)
Associate Fellow, British Foreign Policy Group
Senior Media Policy Advisor, UK Coalition for Cultural Diversity
MEMBERSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Management Committee Member, ICRRA – International Cultural Relations Research Alliance
Member, Chatham House – the Royal Institute of International Affairs
Fellow, Royal Society for the Arts
Fellow, Higher Education Academy
advisory board roles
Reimagining Museums – Culture& and ANTITHESES/University of Oxford. Funded by the Wellcome Trust
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PREVIOUS ROLES: academic
Researcher/Principal Investigator NL REBOOT, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Commmunication, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Senior Researcher, Media Governance and Industries Research Lab, University of Vienna
Lecturer in Cultural Industries and Policy, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Commmunication, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Research Fellow, Center on Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Scoping Culture and Heritage Capital Research, University of the Arts London
Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries Education, King’s College London
Associate Lecturer (ATER), Institut Catholique de Paris
Associate Lecturer, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London
PREVIOUS ROLES: expert/advisor
Expert/Reviewer, Horizon Europe: Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society, European Commission
Member, UK Council, Creative UK
EU Policy Expert, CultureforHealth Consortium (Culture Action Europe, Trans Europe Halles, Central Denmark Region, The Northern Dimension Partnership for Culture, Centrul Cultural Clujean, and Društvo Asociacija), EU Preparatory Action/European Commission
Lead Researcher, The Situation of Artists and Cultural Workers in the European Union, Culture Action Europe for the European Parliament
Expert (Project: Values Machine Learning), Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Expert, Next Left academic group, Foundation for European Progressive Studies
Expert (Project: Science of values and identity in the political process) – Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Consultant, Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique de Paris
Expert, Culture and Foreign Policy (Project: The Role of Culture in a Divided Europe) – ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen/German Institute for International Cultural Relations)
Subject Matter Expert, Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada
Expert/Reviewer, Latvian Council of Science
Cultural Diversity Expert, European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation